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David Diongue

David (Daoure) Diongue is a Baltimore-based Senegalese-American sound essayist, educator, and technologist.

David began learning saxophone and composition from Baltimore’s rich community of musicians. He attended Baltimore School for the Arts and earned his bachelor’s degree in jazz performance at Oberlin College & Conservatory. In addition, he won grants to study jazz in New Orleans and traditional Wolof music in Dakar, Senegal. Throughout this education, his teachers include Carl Grubbs, Kevin Robinson, Dr. Chris Ford, Tim Green, Kidd Jordan, Jamey Haddad, and Gary Bartz.

In addition to working at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Technology and teaching saxophone chamber music at BSA, David continues his artistic practice, evoking his homes of Baltimore and Senegal through sound. His work draws on his formal training as a saxophonist and the self-determining ethos of Black American Music.

Mark Navarro

Mark Navarro is a Baltimore-based Filipino-American sound artist, composer, music producer, audio engineer, and technologist.

His dedication to innovation and growth is a consistent theme throughout his life and artistic journey. His beginnings in music and art were as an independent D.I.Y. artist. Through years of experience, mentorship, collaboration, trial and error, survival, and perseverance, he has continued to blur genre boundaries and explore diverse mediums in his creative pursuits. His story is a testament to the resilience and creative spirit that defines his unique path. Mark was a declared finalist for the Baker Artists Awards in 2023 through the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance.

While working within the Center for Collaborative Arts and Technology at BSA, Mark continues his own artistic practice, audio engineering work, and music composition. Additionally, he creates original compositions and sound design as a key collaborator for the theatre company, Truepenny Projects.

Pat Galluzzo

Pat Galluzzo is the Director of Creative Technology at Baltimore School for the Arts and Interim IT Manager, where he manages the Center for Collaborative Arts and Technology; leads the advanced/emerging media projects and classes; and works with other institutional leaders to develop and implement new curriculum to fit the constantly evolving landscape of arts education and demand for creativity. A major component of his role is to generate, incubate, guide, and foster the collaborative and technological growth and vision at BSA. Since joining BSA, he has lead and been an integral part of many projects and initiatives, such as CCAT TWIGS, Imagined Worlds, BSA MixLab, Morphē and Adobe Creative Cloud access for all BSA Students and Faculty. Galluzzo has also been instrumental in the founding of the Charles C. Baum Film and Visual Storytelling department. Before coming to BSA in the summer of 2014, Galluzzo earned an MFA in Photographic and Electronic Media from MICA and had previously received a BA in Economics and Studio Art from the University of Vermont and worked in economic research, analysis, and modeling.