David Wallace
President, Wallace & Company
David Wallace is the senior partner of David E. Wallace & Company Pipe Organ Builders of Gorham, Maine. He gained an early appreciation for the pipe organ and musical training in piano and organ from Eleanor Wallace, John Fay and Stewart Shuster. After completing college, a graduate degree, a career as a foreign language translator and an apprenticeship in organ restoration and maintenance, David founded David E. Wallace & Company Pipe Organ Builders as a pipe organ service company in Southern Maine. The company has grown and now specializes in the restoration of historic mechanical action instruments as well as the construction of new mechanical action pipe organs with instruments located across the U.S. and in Europe and Canada. David Wallace and his son Nick have served as curators of the Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ since 1981. David first began working with FOKO when he was called to begin the arduous task of bringing the nearly defunct Kotzschmar Organ back to life. David is a member of American Guild of Organists, The American Institute of Organbuilders and the International Society of Organ Builders. He has been a member of the Organ Historical Society for more than 60 years.
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Nick Wallace holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Classical Guitar Performance graduating with honors from the University of Southern Maine School of Music. Though he grew up in the organ business, it was after graduating from college that Nick joined Wallace & Co. full time. As the junior partner, Nick now runs many aspects of the business, but focuses on visual and mechanical design, shop production and general project management. Leading Wallace & Co. into a new generation, Nick has expanded the shop’s capability to build new mechanical action organs, alongside the detailed restorations of 19th century tracker organs that Wallace & Co. has built a reputation on for over the last four decades.
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