Rate My Professor Stuart Gerber

Stuart Gerber is Professor of Percussion and Percussion Area Coordinator in the School of Music at Georgia State University. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College Conservatory, studying with Michael Rosen, a Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music with teachers Allen Otte, Russell Burge, and James Culley of the Percussion Group Cincinnati, and pursued advanced studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover, Germany, with Andreas Boettger. Praised for his “consummate virtuosity” by The New York Times, Gerber has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, and Mexico as a soloist and chamber musician. As an active interpreter of new music, he presented the world premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s final solo percussion work Himmels-Tür in Italy, the percussion trio Mittwoch-Formel at the Stockhausen-Courses in Kürten, Germany, and the United States premieres of Stockhausen’s Komet and the duo Nasenflügeltanz for percussion and synthesizer. He has collaborated with composers including Kaija Saariaho, Steve Reich, Tristan Murail, Frederic Rzewski, George Crumb, Tania León, Michael Colgrass, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, and John Luther Adams, performing at prestigious venues such as Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, the Spoleto Festival, the Savannah Music Festival with Stewart Copeland, the South Bank Centre in London, and the Melbourne Recital Centre.

Gerber serves as faculty percussionist for the Stockhausen-Courses since 2005 and has recorded works for the Stockhausen Complete Edition on Stockhausen-Verlag, as well as on Bridge Records, Capstone Records, Telarc, Code Blue Records, Mode Records, Wesleyan University Press, Albany Records, and Vienna Modern Masters. A founding member and co-artistic director of the Atlanta-based contemporary music ensemble Bent Frequency, he also performs internationally with the piano-percussion duo Ensemble Sirius and regularly as an extra percussionist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. An accomplished pedagogue, Gerber has delivered masterclasses at institutions including the Eastman School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, University of Texas-Austin, Sydney Conservatory, and Victoria College of the Arts, and presented lecture-recitals at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, and the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. In 2025, he received a Georgia State University faculty grant for his recording project Hazy Moonlight: New Works for Saxophone and Percussion and served as Interim Director of the School of Music during the 2024-2025 academic year.