Dave Woolf
(click on the thumbnail to get a larger picture) hails from Allegan, where
he fell in love with barbershop harmony listening to a faculty quartet
from Allegan High School, and listening to “Barbershop Showcase” on
local Kalamazoo AM station WKZO. He started his own quartet in the freshmen dorm at Grand Rapids
Baptist College (now Cornerstone University). “The Boiler Room Four”
toured the Midwest, bringing both barbershop and gospel to churches and
other groups in the summer of 1982. He received a BS in Education from
Calvin College and a BA from Cornerstone University.
After teaching
music in Arkansas for two years, he began graduate studies at WMU while
also singing baritone in the Mall City Barbershop Chorus and with the chapter
quartet “The Keynote Address”. After teaching music in Ohio for two
years, Dave returned to Michigan to complete his MA in Teaching at WMU
and to teach at the Walkerville Rural Communities Schools.
Dave and his family moved to Kalamazoo in
1999 and currently directs the Gull Lake High School Choir and
teaches music at Kellogg and Bedford Elementary Schools. He is
also a voice instructor at the Kalamazoo School of Music and
Dance and directs the choir at Yorkville Community Church.
While not ringing chords, Dave enjoys playing bagpipes,
repairing band instruments, is on the board of the Kalamazoo
Astronomical Society, and sings bass in one of the district's
newest quartets - Go 4 It!
Dave and his wife, Melody, have three beautiful children, Sonnet, age 14, Jonathan, age 13 and Mark, age 10.