Bio

David T. Vickerman has just finished a Master’s Degree in Wind Conducting at the University of Oregon and is beginning the DMA program in wind conducting at The Peabody Institute this fall.  Prior to getting the master’s degree at UO, he was the Director of Bands at Lodi High School in Lodi, California and he held the position of Music Director at Hilmar High School in Hilmar, California the year before that. In 2002, Mr. Vickerman graduated from California State University Stanislaus with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Music Education and his teaching credential the following year.

He has participated in numerous conducting workshops and symposiums, working with conductors such as H. Robert Reynolds, Michael Haithcock, Steven D. Davis, Jerry Junkin, Robert Carnochan and Richard Clary. His primary conducting instructors include Dr. Edward C. Harris, Stuart Sims and Robert Ponto.

In his third year of teaching, Mr. Vickerman received the Gilbert T. Freitas award from CMEA Bay Section for “Outstanding Achievement in Musical Education”. He also created and maintained a local professional chamber winds group, The Lodi Chamber Winds.  Under Mr. Vickerman’s baton, the Lodi High School Bands received superior ratings at concert competitions and the Wind Ensemble performed in Carnegie Hall in 2007. In a concert project at Lodi High School in 2008 he was able to create a performance that included student poetry, abstract film and an intelligent lighting show to accompany the wind ensemble. He is actively pursuing concepts and ideas that focus on bringing the concert music medium to new audiences.

At the University of Oregon he was the conductor of the Oregon Campus Band and Oregon Brass Ensemble.  He has conducted numerous premieres of works by local composers including a ballet at the Hult Center by Ballet Fantastique.

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