David Dockan
David Dockan is a Ph.D. candidate in music education at the University of Kentucky. David is also a teaching assistant at the University, where he teaches classes on music in the elementary classroom, rehearses the community music ensembles of New Horizons, and supervises student teachers. He helped to start a summer course on using popular music and Orff Schulwerk with Martina Vasil. He is an active clinician and writer on informal music learning, hip-hop, Orff Schulwerk, Modern Band, and popular media in the elementary classroom. David received his BM from West Virginia University and his MM from Kent State University. He is also a certified Orff Schulwerk teacher from the Eastman School of Music. David taught elementary and middle school music in Prince George, Virginia. In his free time, David enjoys running and listening to Lil Nas X, Jordan Fisher, and Taylor Swift.
