David Worm
About the Teacher
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David Worm began his professional musical career in 1977 with the bay area rock bands, Xpression and The City. In 1984 David decided to dedicate his musical focus to singing and in 1985 he made that commitment complete by joining the Bay Area vocal groups, Jazz Mouth and Vocal Front.
In 1989, David became a member of celebrated vocal master and conductor, Bobby McFerrin’s Voicestra, an “Orchestra of Voices”, which toured the US, Europe and the Orient. McFerrin's next endeavor, Hard Choral, featured 3 singers and McFerrin in an improvisational quartet and then another incarnation of Voicestra featuring national and international singers again touring worldwide. Since then, David has remained a regular performer with McFerrin, being featured on the album Medicine Music Circle Songs and his last complete vocal album Vocabularies, Prior to the Pandemic. He was also touring and teaching internationally with McFerrin’s improvisational group Gimme 5. Currently he heads up a four singer project with Bobby which has, for the last four years, been performing and documenting improvisational explorations. The group is called Motion.
David is one of the original founding members of the Oakland based acappella group SoVoSo, an internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble, which has released 6 albums and tours worldwide. He is also the other half of local songwriting duo Glass House celebrating 28 years and 4 records of critically acclaimed recordings and performances throughout the Bay Area.
David has worked extensively with the Bay Area Dance community, having scored or co-written numerous original full length works for Robert Moses Kin, (one of which received an Isadora Duncan Award). David has also co- written a score for Alvin Ailey Dance New York which was presented in their 2015 season and his composition “Someday” was used by Mikiel Baryshnikov in performance of his White Oak dance project.
David’s music has also been used in scoring the film documentaries “StepUp” for Canadian director Tamas Wormser, and “Love Francesca” for Producer Julie LaSalle.
David has over 80 record credits as a session singer, vocal percussionist, and writer and his original music has been recorded by groups both nationally and internationally.
David has taught improvisational singing and vocal percussion at the Omega Institute in New York, The Esalen Institute in Big Sur California, The Berkeley School of Music in Boston Mass., University of California Berkeley, The Nine Gates Mystery School in Joshua Tree California.,and 1440 Multiversity in Scotts Valley California. He regularly teaches Circle Singing Facilitation, Vocal Improvisation and Vocal Percussion at the Peace Center in Oakland California , and in schools and other places of learning throughout the US.
In 1989, David became a member of celebrated vocal master and conductor, Bobby McFerrin’s Voicestra, an “Orchestra of Voices”, which toured the US, Europe and the Orient. McFerrin's next endeavor, Hard Choral, featured 3 singers and McFerrin in an improvisational quartet and then another incarnation of Voicestra featuring national and international singers again touring worldwide. Since then, David has remained a regular performer with McFerrin, being featured on the album Medicine Music Circle Songs and his last complete vocal album Vocabularies, Prior to the Pandemic. He was also touring and teaching internationally with McFerrin’s improvisational group Gimme 5. Currently he heads up a four singer project with Bobby which has, for the last four years, been performing and documenting improvisational explorations. The group is called Motion.
David is one of the original founding members of the Oakland based acappella group SoVoSo, an internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble, which has released 6 albums and tours worldwide. He is also the other half of local songwriting duo Glass House celebrating 28 years and 4 records of critically acclaimed recordings and performances throughout the Bay Area.
David has worked extensively with the Bay Area Dance community, having scored or co-written numerous original full length works for Robert Moses Kin, (one of which received an Isadora Duncan Award). David has also co- written a score for Alvin Ailey Dance New York which was presented in their 2015 season and his composition “Someday” was used by Mikiel Baryshnikov in performance of his White Oak dance project.
David’s music has also been used in scoring the film documentaries “StepUp” for Canadian director Tamas Wormser, and “Love Francesca” for Producer Julie LaSalle.
David has over 80 record credits as a session singer, vocal percussionist, and writer and his original music has been recorded by groups both nationally and internationally.
David has taught improvisational singing and vocal percussion at the Omega Institute in New York, The Esalen Institute in Big Sur California, The Berkeley School of Music in Boston Mass., University of California Berkeley, The Nine Gates Mystery School in Joshua Tree California.,and 1440 Multiversity in Scotts Valley California. He regularly teaches Circle Singing Facilitation, Vocal Improvisation and Vocal Percussion at the Peace Center in Oakland California , and in schools and other places of learning throughout the US.
