Dave Wickerham

Dave Wickerham was born in Encino, California in 1962. He began playing the electronic organ at the age of four and had his first pipe organ experience at age ten. His musical education started at age seven.

When he moved to Arizona in 1976, he became Associate Organist at the famous Organ Stop Pizza Restaurants in Phoenix, Mesa and Tucson. While in Arizona, he continued his musical studies with Roseamond Crowley, one of the few remaining descendants of the Louis Vierne line of organists. He attended the University of Arizona in Tucson on a full scholarship, pursuing classical organ studies for six years with Dr. Roy Johnson.

In 1984, Dave moved to the Chicago area to become Staff Organist at Pipes and Pizza in Lansing, Illinois. In addition to his performances there, he concertized frequently as well as ministering musically and serving at various churches.

August of 1990 found the Wickerham family, Dave, his wife and two young children moving to Wisconsin where he was one of the featured Staff Organists at the Piper Music Palace in Greenfield, a position he held for ten years.

In April of 1999, Dave took great pleasure being a featured artist in Melbourne, Australia for the convention of the Theatre Organ Society of Australia for which he received rave reviews. He and his family returned there for a five-week concert tour in the summer 2003.

In the spring of 2000, he ushered in the new millennium with a limited special engagement as a featured organist at Roxy's Pipe Organ Pizzeria, part of a $26,000,000 expansion phase at the Fiesta Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Wickerham's, Dave, Rhonda and three great kids spent a year and a half there before returning back home to Wisconsin in August of 2001.

Dave is currently the Resident Performing Artist at the Milhous Museum in Boca Raton, FL. The museum houses three pipe organs and a vast amassment of beautifully restored automated antique musical instruments. He enjoys concertizing frequently to many audiences including various chapters of the American Theatre Organ Society. He also enjoys recording and has recently released several CDs, one on the 4/24 Mighty Wurlitzer at Trinity Church in Spring Valley, CA maintained by the Theatre Organ Society of San Diego.