Dr. David Wohl

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A recipient of eight ASCAP Special Awards for his concert and popular works, David Wohl composes music for concert hall, electro-acoustic music, as well as music for television, film, theater and dance.

Credits include the following: Best Film Score Award, 2003 Moondance International Film Festival for MGA's Terror From Within; music for the Emmy-award winning Magic Door (CBS), Emmy-award winning Venturing, and the Emmy-nominated The New Workplace; music for Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Food Network; Bas Bleu Theater Company's acclaimed production of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days (International Beckett Festival, Vancouver, Canada); Once Spoken (College Music Society, Santa Fe, NM); the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's Bourgeois Gentleman and The Tempest; and, Apache Wedding Blessing (Contemporary Music Symposium 2000).

Three collaborative works he has composed for have received grants from the Colorado Council on the Arts, (IMPACT Dance's This Speaking Body, Art Moves and Larimer County Exchange Project).

The new musical, Uncle Jed's Barbershop (grant: Arts Alive)– created by David Wohl, Kenneth Grimes and Susan Einhorn-- was presented at the ASCAP/Disney workshop (New York), Spring 2003, and was a Finalist for the prestigious Richard Rodgers Awards and for the O'Neill Musical Theater Conference.

David Wohl has also been a musical director/keyboardist for numerous shows (e.g., Into the Woods, Camelot, Company and King and I) and corporate shows (e.g., Qwest, Audi, Little Caesars).

He has played keyboards on the national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar and Dream Girls.

An accomplished improviser, he teaches keyboard and instrumental improvisation at the School of the Arts, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Colorado.

David Wohl received his Doctorate and Masters degrees in music composition from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and Northwestern University (Chicago), respectively.