PERCUSSION
David Wolf is an educator and free-lance performer based in Columbus, Ohio and specializes in contemporary concert and marching percussion. Currently, he keeps an active teaching schedule at Dublin Coffman High School, Sells Middle School, and Gahanna Lincoln High School. Beginning with the 2010-2011 school year, Dr. Wolf will be the Percussion Director for Madison High School, Kilmer Middle School, and Thoreau Middle School in Vienna, VA and McLean High School and Longfellow Middle School in McLean, VA. He previously held a one-semester appointment as the Interim Director of Percussion Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Wolf has taught privately and in conjunction with multiple public school and college programs in Massachusetts, Oklahoma, and Ohio. He has taught on the percussion staffs of the University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band, the University of Oklahoma Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band, the Spartans Drum and Bugle Corps, and several high school marching band and indoor drumline programs.
As a multi-dimensional performer, Dr. Wolf has enjoyed a variety of performance settings. In 2005, he placed second at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention Solo Competition (multi-percussion and tape) after being selected as a one of four finalists from an international pool of applications. At that same convention, he performed a showcase concert as a member of The Ohio State University Percussion Ensemble. In 2006, he performed at the Focus Day at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Austin, TX. He has also performed in concerts and festivals in Ohio, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, New York, and Connecticut. Dr. Wolf has had the pleasure of performing with international percussion artists Nebojsa Zivkovic, Linda Maxey, Susan Powell, Michael Burritt, Russell Hartenberger, John Beck, and Eduardo Leandro.
Dr. Wolf graduated from The Ohio State University with the Doctor of Musical Arts degree as a University Fellow and Graduate Teaching Associate, where he studied with Susan Powell and Joe Krygier. He earned his Master of Music Degree in Percussion Performance from the University of Oklahoma, where he studied with Lance Drege, and his Bachelor of Music Degree in Percussion Performance and Music Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he studied with Eduardo Leandro and Peter Tanner.
Dr. Wolf is a member of the Vic Firth Education Team, Percussive Arts Society, College Music Society, and MENC. David is an educational endorser for Vic Firth Sticks & Mallets and Remo Drumheads & Percussion.
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Chris Weise started his career as the band director and music department chair at Kilmer Middle School. He was responsible for all aspects of the music program—which included over 550 students performing in four concert bands, three percussion ensembles, three concert choirs, and three orchestras—and for conducting the bands and percussion ensembles. During his four years there, the Kilmer band program grew from 188 students to more than 260 students, such that one student in four was playing in band. The Kilmer Symphonic Band received superior ratings at every contest and festival in which it entered as well as Grand Champion awards at Musicale and Music in the Parks festivals. In 2006, the band was the featured middle school ensemble at the Virginia Music Educator Association’s State Conference. In 2008, Mr. Weise was a nominee for Fairfax County Teacher of the Year. 
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