Douglas Waddell is a member of the Grant Park Symphony and acting principal percussion at Lyric Opera of Chicago. He has been a timpanist with the renowned Music of the Baroque ensemble since 1983, and as a member of the Contemporary Chamber Players of Chicago has performed and recorded a wide variety of twentieth-century chamber works. Waddell has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and can be heard all over the world on hundreds of television and radio commercial jingles. Waddell considers his greatest achievement directing the CSO’s Percussion Scholarship Program with his wife Patricia Dash.
Douglas Waddell
