Dr. David Wallace improvises solos like “Jimmy Page fronting Led Zeppelin” (New York Times). An award-winning composer and an internationally-performing multi-style musician, David chairs Berklee College of Music’s String Department. Previously, he enjoyed fourteen years as Juilliard professor, and seventeen years as New York Philharmonic Teaching Artist.

David’s Texas-style string band, The Doc Wallace Trio has performed with the same three members since 1999, and has released two acclaimed live albums (Live at the Living Room and Live at the Cornelia Street Café). His classical flute-viola-harp trio Hat Trick received a 2018 Grammy nod as their debut record, Garden of Joys and Sorrows, was one of nine records earning David Frost a Producer of the Year, Classical Grammy. Hat Trick followed this success with 2024’s acclaimed Big Sky. David also records and performs with klezmer world-fusion band, Yale Strom’s Broken Consort and The Chuck & David Show, an electric violin project with Chuck Bontrager.

A master teaching artist, David has performed, consulted, and authored curricula for dozens of performing arts institutions, including Carnegie Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Tanglewood Music Festival. He was honored with the inaugural Robert Sherman Prize for Music Education and Community Outreach, and named a 2022-2024 Hermitage Fellow. Symphony Magazine declares his Berklee Press book Engaging the Concert Audience: A Musician’s Guide to Interactive Performance “an invaluable manual for all musicians, classical or otherwise.”

David earned his D.M.A. in Viola Performance from the Juilliard School, where he served as Teaching Assistant to the legendary Karen Tuttle. Learn and hear more at docwallacemusic.com