Justin Wallace

16 Apr Justin Wallace

Justin Wallace graduated from UAB with a Bachelor’s in Music Technology and a specialization in percussion. Justin began his music career with Sanspointe Dance Company in 2009 as a company artist before becoming the company’s music director in 2011. He started working for the Dance Foundation in the same year, providing piano accompaniment for classes of all ages. Justin is also a founding member of Iron Giant, a contemporary music collective based in Birmingham, AL. Established in 2011, the ensemble has performed alongside artists such as Sō Percussion, Glenn Kotche of Wilco, Norman Westberg of Swans, and Third Coast Percussion, and has collaborated with many Alabama music & arts mainstays including John Scalici, Sanspointe Dance Company, and the UAB Percussion Ensemble. Justin teaches a studio of piano and percussion students with the Oak Mountain School of Fine Arts and became the administrator for the school in 2021.