Clarinetist David Brooke Wetzel is equally at home with both classical clarinet repertoire and cutting edge contemporary music. His concert programs demonstrate the limitless possibilities of his versatile instrument--from Mozart and Beethoven to new works involving multimedia and interactive electronics. He has performed throughout the US as a chamber musician, with orchestras (Tucson Symphony, Endless Mountains), as a soloist at the Endless Mountains Music Festival (Wellsboro, PA), Electronic Music Midwest (Joliet, IL), the Spark Festival (Minneapolis), Sonic Fusion (Edinburgh, UK), and was a featured soloist at ICMC 2010 (NYC/Stonybrook, NY).

Dr. Wetzel is a specialist in new music and interactive electronics, and has collaborated often with composers and multimedia artists. Active as an educator, performer, and arranger, Dr. Wetzel has also worked as an orchestra manager, sound engineer, multimedia programmer, and education technologist. His research interests are primarily in the field of interactive electroacoustic performance and real-time computer music systems, with a special focus on maintaining electroacoustic repertoire in the face of rapid technological change. He has presented papers and research demonstrations at ICMC (Miami & Montreal), SEAMUS (Ames, IA & Salt Lake City, UT), the Spark Festival (Minneapolis), and in the British journal Organised Sound.

Since 2004, Dr. Wetzel has been assistant professor of clarinet and coordinator of the music business and technology program at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania. He has previously taught at the Peabody Preparatory, the Baltimore High School for the Arts, ITT Technical Institute, and Central Arizona College.

Dr. Wetzel received his B.Mus. in clarinet performance from Lawrence University, his M.M. in computer music performance and concert production from the Peabody Conservatory and his DMA in clarinet performance at the University of Arizona. His clarinet teachers include Jerry Kirkbride, Loren Kitt, Edward Palanker, Thea King and Dan C. Sparks. His computer music teachers include McGreggor Boyle, Ichiro Fujinaga and Geoffrey Wright.