Department of Music

• Thursday, April 11, 2013
• Old Cabell Hall
• 8:00pm
• Free

The UVA McIntire Department of Music presents a Marimba Recital performed by Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame artist, Gordon Stout, on Thursday, April 11^th, at 8pm in Old Cabell Hall.  Mr. Stout will perform several of his own compositions and his arrangements of Augusto Marcellino’s Choros. 

Mr. Stout will also perform with the U.Va. Percussion Ensemble at A Night of Percussion Concert on Friday, April 12^th at 8pm in Old Cabell Hall and he will present a free marimba master class on Saturday, April 13th at 10am in B18 Old Cabell Hall.

Gordon Stout is a Professor of Percussion at the School of Music at Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY where he has taught percussion since 1980. A composer as well as percussionist who specializes on marimba, he studied composition with Joseph Schwanter, Samuel Adler and Warren Benson, and percussion with James Salmon and John Beck.

As a composer/recitalist, Stout has premiered many of his original compositions -- several of which have become standard repertoire for marimbists worldwide -- as well as works by other contemporary composers. He recently performed at the Santa Fe Marimba Festival.

A frequent lecturer/recitalist for the Percussive Arts Society, Gordon Stout has appeared as a featured marimbist at twelve PAS International Conventions (PASIC) and was inducted into the PAS Hall of Fame in 2012. Gordon was on the jury of the Leigh Howard Stevens International Marimba Competitions (1995 &1998), the World Marimba Competitions (1999 & 2002) and the International Marimba Competition (2006).

Recital Program

Astral Dance (1979) - Gordon Stout (b. 1952)
Beads of Glass (2004) - Gordon Stout
Rumble Strips (2000) - Gordon Stout
Whatever's More (2010) - Gordon Stout
Quondam Reflections (2011) - Gordon Stout
Choros #1, 3, 9 - Augusto Marcellino