BARRY DOVE

Barry Dove has had a long and distinguished musical career. He received his Bachelor’s in Music Education, Performer’s Certificate, and Master’s Degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Also there, he earned a first Prize award in the Yale Gordon Concerto Competition. Mr. Dove also attended the University of Ghana in Accra to study West African drumming styles and the University of Havana, Cuba. The Washington Post has described Mr. Dove as having “superhuman dexterity”, “exceptionally virtuosic” and “a marvelous player”.

Barry accompanied the George Shearing Quintet touring Japan and Germany. In 1988 and 1991 he was bestowed Artist-in-Residence at the Walden School of Music in New Hampshire. As an accomplished musician Mr. Dove has had many prominent solos including those with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra. Recitals have also been numerous at many esteemed colleges, universities, and music halls.

Mr. Dove has recorded for National Geographic Explorer Channel, The Learning Channel, The Discovery Channel, and for a PBS special with Wynton Marsalis. Mr. Dove has premiered sixteen new works in the past ten years, thirteen of which were commissioned for him. In addition to his own quartet, the Barry Dove Jazz Quartet, and trio, the Global Percussion Trio, teaching at University of Maryland Baltimore County and Loyola College, Mr. Dove is the principal percussionist of the Washington Contemporary Music Forum, Polaris Contemporary Chamber Music Ensemble, principal Timpanist for the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Key West Symphony Orchestra and section percussion with the Harrisburg Symphony.