David Wheatley

David Wheatley is an award-winning organist, pianist and composer based in Los Angeles, California. He was born and raised in Guelph Ontario Canada, where he received his early musical training. He attended the University of Toronto and studied with Clifford Poole at the Royal Conservatory of Music where he holds the ARCT (Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto) in both Piano and Pipe Organ Performance. Wheatley tied for first place for The Edward Johnson Music Foundation Award in Guelph for classical organ performance. He also won the Ron Collier Composition Contest then held annually in Toronto, Canada. He has a Bachelor of Music Degree in Composition from the University of North Texas (formerly North Texas State University) where he was honored as Outstanding Undergraduate Male and also taught music arranging while there. He holds a Master’s Degree in Composition from the University of Southern California. Also while at USC, he served as co-founder and director of the then Composition for the Music Industry Advanced Studies Program. While at USC, he taught music theory, orchestration, songwriting and arranging. David also studied at Second City in Hollywood for comedy training and attended improv classes with Dave Razowsky.