Music Faculty
Jeffrey H. Davidson, Resource Teacher and Choral Director Jeffrey_H_Davidson@mcpsmd.org
Terry S. Alvey, Instrumental Music Director
Wayne J. Chadwick, General Music DirectorMeet The Faculty
Jeff Davidson has taught for 30 years in Montgomery County Public Schools, the past 27 as choral director and music department chairman at Walt Whitman High School. With an enrollment of close to 300 students under his supervision, Mr. Davidson teaches five choral ensembles daily: General Chorus, Treble Chorale, Women’s Chorus, Men’s Chorus, and Chamber Choir. He directed the Montgomery County Youth Chorus from 1988-1995.
A 1976 graduate of Northwood High School, Silver Spring, Mr. Davidson earned his Bachelor of Music Education degree in voice and piano from Wittenberg University in 1980, and his Master of Music degree in choral conducting from Temple University in 1982. Under his direction, Whitman choirs have consistently earned superior ratings in district and state festivals, as well as competitions in major cities from Canada to Florida. He has earned numerous awards and honors throughout his career, most notably the MMEA Outstanding Music Teacher Award for Excellence and finalist for the Washington Post Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award. He is well known state-wide as a festival adjudicator and honors chorus director for many of Maryland’s school systems. Mr. Davidson was a member of the Maryland Choral Educators Association board of directors from 2000-2009, where he served as the chairman of the festival music review committee and men’s demonstration chorus. He is also an active member of the American Choral Directors Association and Music Educators National Conference.
Terry Alvey, Director of Instrumental Music, has been teaching for Montgomery County Public Schools for 22 years and is entering her sixth year at Walt Whitman High School. Ms. Alvey teaches the following Whitman ensembles: Concert Band (ninth grade); Concert Orchestra; Symphonic Band; Wind Ensemble; Symphonic Orchestra; Jazz Ensemble; and the Pit Orchestra for our Fall Musical. The Instrumental Department also fields a pep band, marching band, and drum-line. Ms. Alvey is a member of the M Street Brass Quintet, a Washington, D.C.-based performing ensemble, and has been on the faculties of the Levine School of Music, D.C. Youth Orchestras, Montgomery County Youth Orchestras, and the Potomac Valley Youth Orchestra programs. During her teaching career with Montgomery County Public Schools, she has taught at Tilden, North Bethesda, and Hoover Middle Schools, in addition to Whitman. Under her leadership, these schools’ bands and orchestras have consistently received superior ratings at both the District and State Band and Orchestra Festivals. Ms. Alvey is currently conductor of the Potomac Valley Youth Orchestra Wind Ensemble, has served as conductor for the Montgomery County Sixth Grade and Junior Honors Bands, as well as the Senior Honors String Orchestra, and was the 2006–2007 conductor for the Maryland All-State Junior Band. An active educator, conductor, adjudicator, clinician, and performer, Ms. Alvey maintains a private trumpet studio in addition to fulfilling her duties as director of Whitman’s Instrumental Music Department.
Wayne Chadwickteaches Music Theory, Electronic Music, Guitar and Piano at Whitman. He is also the rehearsal accompanist and sound engineer for our fall musical, recording engineer for student audition tapes, composer in residence, and basically a musical jack-of-all-trades. When not teaching Whitman High School students, Mr. Chadwick can be found writing music for Imagination Stage, a local children’s community theatre.