He was founder of the I.U.P. Community Music School Percussion Ensemble. Dunlap has completed extensive music research in Havana (Cuba), and in Ghana, where he had the honor of performing for the funeral of the late president of Ghana, John Atta Mills.

Dunlap is enthusiastic about promoting the percussion ensemble as both a genre and art form. He is active in the Percussive Arts Society, serving as a member of the Percussion Ensemble Committee (2021-2024) and publishing articles in Percussive Notes. During the summer of 2019, he completed an internship with the Grammy Award-winning ensemble Third Coast Percussion. Dunlap served as the percussion coordinator and arranger for the University of Pittsburgh Drumline and the Symphonic Band’s Percussion Ensemble. As a freelance musician and educator, he is active in many genres of music and enjoys performing with regional orchestras and presenting clinics and master classes at colleges and universities. He has participated in coaching and guest conducting at various Pennsylvania Music Educators Association events, including county band percussion ensembles and all-state orchestras.

Currently, Dunlap serves as Adjunct Professor of Percussion Studies at Wittenberg University, Department of Music. He proudly uses and endorses Sabian Cymbals.

BORN IN: Indiana, PA

LIVES IN: Pittsburgh, PA

PLAYING SINCE: 2000

BIGGEST INFLUENCES: Major Teachers: Michael Kingan, Josh Ryan, James Wyamn, Sulley Imoro, Alejandro Carbajal Guerra and Third Coast Percussion

MOST MEMORABLE PERFORMANCE YOU PLAYED IN: Performing in Ghana to celebrate the life of the late President, John Atta Mills

MOST MEMORABLE PERFORMANCE YOU DIDN’T PLAY IN: Third Coast Percussion

CAREER HIGHLIGHT: Working with amazing students at the University of Pittsburgh and Wittenberg University

FAVOURITE SABIAN CYMBAL: HHX Complex