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Dave Fox is a drum
set artist and educator residing in the Boston area. He currently
performs and records with Jazz artists such as The Phil Grenadier
Quartet, David Tronzo, Pat Loomis, Andre Hayward, Kevin Harris, 3Play+
(Josh Rosen and Lello Mollinari), Low Profile and The Wendy Nottonson
Quartet. Dave is the leader of both the straight ahead acoustic Jazz group “DF Trio” and the electronic, experimental, free group “DF4:
adventure in sound”, which features David Tronzo, Josh Rosen, and Bruno
Raberg.
In addition to performing
and recording, Dave stays very active in the field of marching
percussion education. He is currently the Director of Percussion
for both the fall and winter marching percussion programs at
Blackstone-Millville High School in Blackstone, MA, as well as arranger
for the fall percussion program. He has been a staff member of Thom Hannum’s
Mobile Percussion Seminar since 1998, and in 2004 became a
member of the Vic Firth Education Team as a Marching Percussion
Specialist. Dave has had the privilege of being a student of master
percussionists: Walter Tokarczyk; Thom Hannum; Billy Ward;
and his personal mentor, master drummer, Bob Gullotti, with whom Dave
still continues a long-standing study. Dave is an endorser of Vic Firth
sticks and mallets.
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