Gordon Stout (born 1952) is an
American
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percussionist, composer, and educator specializing in the
marimba
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.
He studied composition with
Joseph Schwantner
Joseph Clyde Schwantner (born March 22, 1943) is an American composer, educator and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2002. He was awarded the 1970 Charles Ives Prize.
Schwantner is prolific, with many works to his cred ...
,
Samuel Adler, and
Warren Benson
Warren Frank Benson (January 26, 1924 – October 6, 2005) was an American composer. His compositions consist mostly of music for wind instruments and percussion. His most notable piece is titled ''The Leaves Are Falling'' (1964).
Biography
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, and percussion with
James Salmon and
John Beck. Many of his compositions for marimba (i.e., Two Mexican Dances for Marimba from 1977, and the Astral Dance) have become standard repertoire for marimba players worldwide.
As a marimba player, he has presented solo performances throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in Europe, Japan, Taiwan, and Mexico. In the summer of 1998 he was a featured marimba performer at the World Marimba Festival in
Osaka
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, Japan. His students include David Hall,
Alex Jacobowitz
Alex Jacobowitz (born 19 May 1960 in New York) is a classically trained concert artist and street performer who plays the marimba and xylophone.
New York
During the early 1980s he studied music at the State University of New York at Bingham ...
and Dane Richeson. He is a member of the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame.
Stout served as professor of percussion at the School of Music of
Ithaca College
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in
Ithaca
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,
New York
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.
He retired in 2019.
See also
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Marimba
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References
20th-century American classical composers
21st-century American classical composers
American male classical composers
American marimbists
Ithaca College faculty
1952 births
Living people
Eastman School of Music alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
Pupils of Samuel Adler (composer)
20th-century American male musicians
21st-century American male musicians
American classical percussionists
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