David Kopplin

Contact Information:

Faculty Office Telephone: (909) 869-3311
E-mail: dfkopplin@cpp.edu
Music Department Office: (909) 869-3548
Fax #: (909) 869-4145

Education:

Ph.D., UCLA (Music Composition)
M.M., USC (Jazz Studies/Composition)
M.M., University of Colorado, Boulder (Percussion)
B.A., University of Colorado (Mathematics)

Subjects:

Introduction to Careers in Music
Composition
Western Classical Traditions
Jazz Band

Advisor to Student Groups:

Cal Poly Pomona Pep Band
Music and Entertainment Industry Student Association
Music Uniting Student Entertainers
Cal Poly Pomona JSA Taiko Dojo

Bio:

DR. DAVE KOPPLIN’s professional career in music began as percussionist for the Colorado Springs Symphony, and later as drummer for the Colorado Springs Symphony Jazz Quartet. He has performed and recorded with San Francisco’s Clubfoot Orchestra, the Brazilian jazz group Araça Azul, and the Carlos Barreda Latin Jazz Orchestra, among many others. In 1984 and again in 1985 he was chosen for the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Study Fellowship.

Kopplin holds a Master’s in Music from the University of Southern California, where he studied composition with Bob Linn, Morten Lauridsen, Donald Crockett, and jazz composition with Vince Mendoza. He received the Ph.D. in composition at UCLA, where he studied composition with Roger Bourland, Daniel Lentz, Manuel Enriquez, and Ian Krouse, and musicology with Robert Walser and Susan McClary. Professional credits as a composer include film scores, incidental music for theater, works for chorus, chamber orchestra, full orchestra, various electro-acoustic works for chamber ensembles, songs, and commissions for jazz and Latin-jazz ensembles.

Dr. Kopplin is also active as a writer and speaker. He regularly contributes articles to performing arts magazines across the country, including program notes and features for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera, and for the Hollywood Bowl. He currently is Department Chair and Professor of Music at Cal Poly Pomona.