Keynote Speaker - David Wallace
2010 ASTA National Conference
February 18, 2010
8:00 a.m.
Santa Clara, California
A faculty member of
the Juilliard School and a Senior Teaching
Artist for the New York Philharmonic, Dr. David Wallace has been
broadcast as a soloist and chamber musician on NPR and WQXR radio, as
well as CBS, ABC, PBS, Tokyo-MX, and NHK television. David’s concert appearances
include performances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center,
international tours with the Teaching Artist Ensemble of the New York
Philharmonic, collaborations with Mark O’Connor, and ten years of
Texas-style fiddling with The Doc Wallace Trio.
As a Teaching Artist,
David has performed, led workshops, written curriculum, scripted
concerts, and consulted for dozens of arts organizations, including the
Tanglewood Music Festival, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival,
Carnegie Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony,
Young Audiences, Chamber Music America, KACES (Korea), Life with Music
Project (Japan), and the Lincoln Center Institute. In 2002, David’s creative
contributions were honored with the McGraw-Hill Companies’ Robert
Sherman Award for Music Education and Community Outreach, presented to
musicians who have distinguished themselves as artists and
educators.
David has ASTA’s
alternative strings committee and is the Alternative Styles editor for
JAVS. His recently
published book from McGraw-Hill, Reaching Out: A Musician’s Guide
to Interactive Performance, has been hailed by Symphony Magazine as "an
invaluable manual for all musicians, classical or
otherwise."
As a composer,
David’s commissions include chamber works for the New York
Philharmonic, an electronic work for the Juilliard School’s
Centennial, improvisations and arrangements for numerous film,
television, and theater productions, and a double-bass solo for his
compositional mentor Jon Deak. David’s works and performances in unconventional venues
have received awards and grants ASCAP and the American Music
Center. As a Teaching Artist in the New York
Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers project, he has mentored over
eighty students who have had their original works performed by musicians
of the orchestra. David’s critically-acclaimed recordings are available at
http://cdbaby.com/all/docwallace.
David presently teaches viola at Nyack College and has taught viola
at Sarah Lawrence College and the Juilliard School as an Assistant to
Karen Tuttle. He thanks his primary string teachers: Marilyn
Llewellyn, Michael Weise, George Engelmann, Kenneth Goldsmith, Lawrence
Wheeler, Karen Ritscher, and Karen Tuttle
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