Assistant Professor of Music, Composition and Theory
BM in horn and composition, DePaul University; MM in composition, Northwestern University; DMA in composition, Boston University. Dr. Wallace is a composer, whose music has been performed around the country, including at the Tanglewood Institute, New Music DePaul, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Chautauqua Summer Music Festival, working with groups such as the Chicago Clarinet Trio (Larry Combs, Julie DeRoche, and John Bruce Yeh), the Trio Mosaic, Pinotage, and the Chicago Chamber Music Collective. He has also worked with singers such as Penelope Bitzas, Krista River, and Gary Durham. In Europe, his Piano Quintet (1991) received three performances in Lithuania in January 2000, by the renowned Vilnius String Quartet and Lithuanian-American pianist Rokas Zubovas, in a series of concerts that included the Lithuanian premieres of works by both Anton Webern and Frank Martin. His Symphonia for large orchestra was one of three works selected for the Chicago Civic Orchestra's 1990 Illinois Composer's Reading Sessions, coordinated by then Chicago Symphony Orchestra Composer-in-Residence, John Corigliano, and conducted by Michael Morgan. As a horn player, he has performed with various ensembles, including the Park Forest Orchestra, Waukegan Symphony, Lake Shore Brass Quintet, Bristol Renaissance Faire, and Disney's All-American College Marching Band. He has studied composition with Lukas Foss, Charles Fussell, Alan Stout, Raymond Wilding-White, and Darleen Cowles-Mitchell and was an active member of the Chicago Composers' Consortium from 1996-2004, and chaired that organization from 1996-98. He has had a recent article, "Motivic Integration in Part One of Mahler's Eighth Symphony," accepted for publication in a joint Russian/American book co-edited by Marina Kornakova of the Russian Institute of the History of Arts, St. Petersburg, and Jeremy Yudkin of Boston University. He has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, DePaul University, for the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, and guest lectured at the Mary Pappert School of Music at Duquesne University, Boston Conservatory, and Middlesex Community College. Additionally, he served as the Business Manager of the DePaul University School of Music for eight years.