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Artistic Staff Douglas Wallace, Director of Percussion Ensemble
In addition to his performing career, Mr. Wallace has a very extensive teaching background. He currently runs the percussion programs at Madison High School, Thoreau Middle School, and Kilmer Middle School in Vienna, Virginia, McLean High School and Longfellow Middle School in McLean, Virginia, and the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestra in Fairfax County, Virginia. His work with these organizations includes teaching methods classes, writing and arranging marching band and percussion ensemble music, coaching orchestral and band literature and conducting percussion ensemble. Mr. Wallace’s private students have attended many music conservatories and colleges including The Juilliard School, The Oberlin Conservatory, The University of Miami and DePaul University. His teaching techniques are highlighted in his method book, Percussion with Class, released in August of 2005 by the FJH Music Publishing Company. His compositions and arrangements have been performed by several middle schools and high schools, The Juilliard School, The Eastman School of Music, New York University, George Mason University, The Music Academy of the West, Temple University, The United States Marine Band, and at The Bands of America National Percussion Festival. Mr. Wallace has a Bachelor's Degree and Performer's Certificate from The Eastman School of Music where he studied with John Beck, and a Master's Degree from The Juilliard School where he studied with Greg Zuber. |
Douglas Wallace lives in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area and performs regularly as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral percussionist. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has worked with many ensembles including Theater Chamber Players, Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, The Battery Four Percussion Group, Washington Symphonic Brass and Percussion, and The Oblivion Ensemble. With these groups and others, he has performed as a guest artist and clinician at The Kennedy Center, The Cosmos Club, The Phillips Collection, The Freer Gallery, The National Gallery of Art, Constitution Hall and The National Theater in Washington, DC, The Academy of Music and The Morris Arboretum in Philadelphia, The Juilliard School in New York City, The Pyramid Arts Center in Rochester, New York, The Fame Music Festival in Princeton, New Jersey, The Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts in Huntington, New York, and The Tanglewood Music Festival in Massachusetts. Mr. Wallace's orchestral background includes performances with The National Symphony Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, The Washington National Opera, The Harrisburg Symphony, The Delaware Symphony, The Richmond Symphony, The Rochester Philharmonic, and the Alexandria Symphony. With these orchestras and others he has worked with world renowned conductors Lorin Maazel, Seiji Ozawa, James Levine, Leonard Slatkin, Kurt Mazur, Pierre Boulez, Placido Domingo, Jeffrey Tate, and Valery Gergiev.