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Dr. David Wohl
Special Assistant Professor
(970) 491-5529 | david.wohl@davidwohlmusic.com
David Wohl composes acoustic and electro-acoustic music for concert hall, television, film, theater, multi-media and dance, and has received nine ASCAP Special Awards for his concert and popular works. Credits include: Best Film Score Award, 2003 Moondance International Film Festival; music for the Emmy-award winning Magic Door (CBS), Emmy-award winning Venturing, and the Emmy-nominated The New Workplace (PBS); 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); and, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s Bourgeois Gentleman and The Tempest. Three collaborative works he has composed for have received grants from the Colorado Council on the Arts: The Speaking Body, Art Moves and Larimer County Exchange Project. Last year, he composed music and sound design for the Wildlife Conservation Society/Bronx Zoo's newest pavilion, the world's first Bug Carousel. Notable concert works include Between Times, Once Spoken; Apache Wedding Blessing and Piano Variations.
Uncle Jed's Barbershop - a new musical co-created by David Wohl, and for which he composed the music and co-wrote the lyrics-- was an official selection of the prestigious 2005 New York Musical Theater Festival, and was performed off-Broadway. Other distinctions for Uncle Jed's Barbershop are: 2005 Director’s Choice Award, Winner; 2004 Richard Rodgers Awards (American Academy of Arts and Letters), Finalist; 2004 O'Neill Musical Theater Conference, Finalist; 2003 ASCAP/Disney workshop, official selection. Last year, the Denver Foundation/Eulipions Fund granted the show $22,000.
David Wohl has been a musical director/keyboardist for numerous regional and touring shows, and played keyboards on the national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar. He is also an active producer and arranger for other artists’ recordings.
At Colorado State University, School of the Arts, Dr. Wohl teaches composition, orchestration, and keyboard improvisation. He received his Doctorate and Masters degrees from McGill University and Northwestern University, respectively.