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.