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Dorian Wallace is a composer, pianist, teacher, and activist. His work explores aspects of conscious and unconscious experiences, political discourse, performance art, and genre crossing.
His music has been performed worldwide at venues such as The Greene Space at WNYC & WQXR, Pompidou Centre, Palais Jacques Coeur, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, National Sawdust, Universidad de Costa Rica, and GK Arts Center. |
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He has composed and collaborated with artists including 10 Hairy Legs, Alison Cook Beatty Dance, Robert Ashley, Hernando Bensuelo, Seneca Black, Tiger Chengliang Cai, The Cleveland Orchestra Piano Trio, Composers Concordance, Cylixe, Experiments In Opera, Gwen Rakotovao, John King, Dave Liebman, Frank London, LottDance, Matt Marks, Brianna Matzke, Charlotte Mundy, New Vintage Baroque, Paperwing Ensemble, Periapsis Music and Dance, Paul Pinto, Hajnal Pivnick, RIOULT Dance, John Sanborn, The Shekinah Big Band, Shelter Repertoire Dance Theater, Son Lux, TRIODance, Aleksandra Vrebalov, and Pamela Z.
Dorian is a founder and artistic director of the New York City based new music collective Tenth Intervention, director of the improvisational septendectet The Free Sound Ahn-somble, pianist for the surrealist nightclub act Trystero, and a founding member of free improvisational quintet AmmoCake.
He is one of New York City's most sought after musicians for dance, playing classes at Barnard College of Columbia University, The Martha Graham Dance Company, The Juilliard School, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Ballet Hispanico, Kat Wildish Presents, Interlochen Center for the Arts, and Doug Varone and Dancers.
He teaches lessons, lectures, and masterclasses in composition, theory, improvisation, meditation and the art of Ichonautics.
He studied Music Composition with Sebastian Birch, Pat Pace, Tom Janson, Frank Wiley and Chas Baker at Kent State University. He is currently enrolled at Montclair State University pursuing a degree in Music Therapy. He has served 8 years in the US Army National Guard.
Dorian currently lives in Harlem, New York City with his partner, violinist Hajnal Pivnick.
Dorian is a founder and artistic director of the New York City based new music collective Tenth Intervention, director of the improvisational septendectet The Free Sound Ahn-somble, pianist for the surrealist nightclub act Trystero, and a founding member of free improvisational quintet AmmoCake.
He is one of New York City's most sought after musicians for dance, playing classes at Barnard College of Columbia University, The Martha Graham Dance Company, The Juilliard School, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Ballet Hispanico, Kat Wildish Presents, Interlochen Center for the Arts, and Doug Varone and Dancers.
He teaches lessons, lectures, and masterclasses in composition, theory, improvisation, meditation and the art of Ichonautics.
He studied Music Composition with Sebastian Birch, Pat Pace, Tom Janson, Frank Wiley and Chas Baker at Kent State University. He is currently enrolled at Montclair State University pursuing a degree in Music Therapy. He has served 8 years in the US Army National Guard.
Dorian currently lives in Harlem, New York City with his partner, violinist Hajnal Pivnick.
