Stuart Gerber (DMA) is currently Assistant Professor and Percussion Coordinator at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. As an active performer of new works, he has performed extensively throughout the US, Europe, Australia, and Mexico, and has been involved in a number of commissions and world-premiere performances. Dr. Gerber has collaborated with a number of important composers, most notably Karlheinz Stockhausen. He has worked with Stockhausen since 1999 and in July 2005 will become the faculty percussion instructor at the annual Stockhausen-Kurse in Kürten, Germany. He will teach the following works: Zyklus, Nasenflügeltanz, Komet, Vibra-Elufa, Kontakte, Refrain and Schlagtrio.

In 2004 he was awarded a top prize at the Stockhausen-Kurse for his interpretation of Komet, and in 2000 he won second prize for his interpretation of Kontakte along with the Australian pianist Michael Fowler. In addition to those two pieces he has also worked with Stockhausen on Zyklus, Refrain, and Nasenflügeltanz, and has given the US and Australian premieres of Nasenflügeltanz (duo version) as well as the US premiere of Komet.

In 2003, after completing his thesis entitled Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Solo Percussion Music: A Comprehensive Study, he was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). This thesis is a performance-based, interpretive study on Stockhausen’s solo percussion works; with an emphasis on the collaborative compositional role the percussionist has in these works.

Dr. Gerber also holds a Master of Music degree from CCM, a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin Conservatory, and did advanced studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover, Germany. His principal teachers were Allen Otte, James Culley, Michael Rosen, and Andreas Boettger.