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.

 
“a burning young drummer, with great energy and ears to match” 
 -The Zeitgeist Gallery, Cambridge, MA
 
Performances with:
Phil Grenadier
Jerry Bergonzi
David Tronzo
Phil Sargent
Suzanne Davis Quartet
Andre Hayward
Leo Genovesse
Bruno Raberg
Pat Loomis
Kevin Harris
3 Play +
Superhoney
Dr. Awkward
Trick Bag (Meters Tribute)
 
Teaching and Clinics at:
Spartans Drum and Bugle Corps
Thom Hannum's Mobile Percussion Seminar
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
University of Alabama
Bosse School of Music
Blackstone-Millville Regional High School
Salem High School