Director of the 2026 Honors Drumline.
David England currently teaches the Blackman Middle School Band in Murfreesboro, TN where he was selected as Teacher of the Year in 2008 and 2017. He has been teaching middle school band since 1994 and has been at BMS since it opened in 2001. Since then, the BMS Band has grown to a program of over 300 students and has received superior ratings at festival and placed many students in honors ensembles. The BMS Percussion section was selected to play a showcase concert at PASIC 2024 as the middle school IPEC winner. The group has performed at the TN Music Educators Conference twice, TN PAS multiple times and has also performed at various other percussion ensemble festivals.
From 1993 to 2023, Mr. England was the percussion arranger/designer and an instructor at Father Ryan High School in Nashville, TN. Father Ryan won three WGI World Championships and was a perennial WGI World Class Finalist, medalist and a fan favorite during that time. Father Ryan is also a three-time winner of the PASIC indoor marching percussion standstill competition as well as several local and state awards.
David graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 1994 where he studied with Lalo Davila. He is a composer for Row-Loff Productions and an artist with Innovative Percussion, Sabian Cymbals and Mapex/Majestic Percussion. He is an active clinician having presented at the Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic, NAfME National Conference, ASBDA Regional conference, TnMEA Conference, TN PAS, and many others. He is also a very active adjudicator for marching bands and indoor percussion/winds traveling to various states and circuits.
Mr. England is serving once again as the President of the Tennessee Chapter of PAS where he leads the organization of statewide events including the TN Day of Percussion. He marched with the Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps from Hackensack, New Jersey. He served as an instructor for the Dutch Boy Drum and Bugle Corps and was the percussion supervisor and percussion arranger for the Music City Drum and Bugle Corps from Nashville, TN for 2017 and 2018.
David is currently the drummer for Turning Point Worship located in Murfreesboro, TN. He and his wife Jennifer have four children, Breanna, Aaron, Angel and Damien, and three grandchildren, Aliza Dimple, John David and Elizabeth Daisy.