By the age of seven, Wallace DePue was considered a musical prodigy. He completed two bachelor’s degrees at Capital University within five years, one in music education and another in music composition. Later, he completed a master’s degree at Ohio State University and a Ph.D. at Michigan State University. For several decades, he taught music across Ohio.
DePue’s operas include Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Something Special, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, and The Wonderful Witch of Oz. He has won consecutive ASCAP awards for more than 26 years, and in 2014, he won the “Gold Medal” award from the Boston Metro Opera. In 2006, his compositions were featured on The America Masters Concert Series, and his work was considered by the Pulitzer Prize in Music Committee in 2007. Since 1998, DePue has been a Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University. He directs his own ASCAP licensed publishing company, Picardie Court Publications. He authored Creative Music Theory Skills, a book concerning beginning music theory for potential composers, which has been used successfully at Bowling Green State University.
