Wallace McClain Cheatham

Wallace McClain Cheatham is an internationally acclaimed musician and scholar who has taught in public schools for more than three decades. He was a guest professor at Cardinal Stritch College, Wisconsin, and composer-in-residence at Menasha High School. The recipient of many awards and honours, including the ‘Knoxville College Outstanding Alumni of National Prominence Award’, Wallace has introduced major works of African American Composers to audiences in Wisconsin and Illinois. His own compositions, which span a variety of genres, have been performed in national and international settings, and have been published by Shawnee, Alfred, Master-Player Library, OUP and Southern Illinois University Press. He was a consultant for the recently published A Documentary History of the National Association of Negro Musicians. Wallace was a contributing author to the recently published Just Tell the Story, a book that explores the history of William Grant Still's opera Troubled Island. His research dealing with opera as it relates to the African American experience has been published in internationally circulated journals, and his book Dialogues on Opera and the African American Experience is housed in libraries worldwide. He is a subject of biographical record in Who’s Who in the World, Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the American Education.

Fanfare and Toccata (2005) was performed during the 2007 AFNOM festival in London.

Contact information

Wallace McClain Cheatham
2961 N. Fifth Street
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
53212
USA
Tel: +1 414 374 4215
Email: FChea44172@aol.com