Education

Professional Highlights

• David S. Zerull joined the Coservatory faculty in 1990 after thirteen years of public and private school teaching in music education, including vocal music at Lutheran High School West (Rocky River, Ohio); elementary instrumental music as graduate assistant at Bowling Green in the Laboratory School Project; and Director of Bands and Orchestra at Northwest Senior High School, (Cincinnati, Ohio).
• He is an active clinician and conductor. He has presented numerous clinics on conducting techniques, rehearsal techniques, and strategies for beginning instrument classes at the Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, and Virginia Music Educators Association In-services, and the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic. He has appeared as guest conductor at the Great Lake Music Camp and for Area All-State Band in New York, and All-County and District Honor Bands in Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia.
• Dr. Zerull was the winner of the "Young Writers Competition" sponsored by Heldref Publications. His article, "Evaluation in Arts Education: Building and Utilizing an Effective Assessment Strategy" appeared in the Design for Arts in Education magazine. He has also published articles in the Music Educators Journal, and Triad, the professional journal of the Ohio Music Education Association. He was a contributing author for On the Nature of Musical Experience, a monograph written by members of the Center for the Study of Education and the Musical Experience at Northwestern University, and has authored Getting Started with High School Band, published by MENC. Dr. Zerull contributed to Strategies for Teaching Beginning and Intermediate Band and Strategies for Teaching High School Band, both published by MENC.