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Stuart Gerber
Hailed as “Instrumentalist of the Year, Percussion” by the Wisconsin Area Music Industry (W.A.M.I.), Stuart Gerber is currently Assistant Professor and Percussion Coordinator at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Dr. Gerber has performed extensively throughout the US, Europe, Australia, and Mexico.
As an active performer of new works, Dr. Gerber has been involved in a number of commissions and world-premiere performances. He has given the US and Australian premieres of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Nasenflügeltanz for percussion and synthesizer, and, most recently, the US premiere of his solo percussion work Komet. In July 2005 Dr. Gerber will record these two works for the Stockhausen Complete Edition, and will become the faculty percussionist for the annual Stockhausen Courses in Kuerten, Germany. In addition to his work with Stockhausen, Dr. Gerber has worked with many other notable composers, such as Kaija Saariaho, Steve Reich, Frederic Rzewski, George Crumb, Tania Lèon and John Luther Adams.
Dr. Gerber is a founding member of the Atlanta-based new music group Bent Frequency, performs internationally with the Australian pianist Michael Fowler in ENSEMBLE SIRIUS, and is regularly heard as extra percussionist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
Dr. Gerber received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin College Conservatory where he studied with Michael Rosen, and was awarded a Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). His principal teachers at CCM were Allen Otte and James Culley. He has also done advanced studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover, Germany, with Professor Andreas Boettger.