David Dockan is a current PhD candidate in music education at the University of Kentucky. David is also a teaching assistant at the University where he teaches classes on music in the elementary classroom, rehearses the community music ensembles of New Horizons, and supervises student teachers. He helped to start a summer course on using popular music and Orff Schulwerk with Martina Vasil. He is an active clinician and writer on topics such as informal music learning, hip-hop, Orff Schulwerk, Modern Band, and popular media in the elementary classroom. Currently, David serves as the Intern for the Association for Popular Music Education.

​David received his BM from West Virginia University and his MM from Kent State University. He is also a certified Orff Schulwerk teacher from the Eastman School of Music. In his free time, David enjoys working out and listening to Lil Nas X, Jordan Fisher, and Lizzo.

This is a video of the performance by the Orff and Popular Music class at the University of Kentucky taught by Dr. Martina Vasil and myself (June 2022).