Gordon Stout is currently Professor of Percussion at Ithaca College, where he has taught percussion since 1980. A composer, as well as percussionist who specializes on marimba, he has studied composition with Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler and Warren Benson and percussion with James Salmon and John Beck. As a composer/recitalist, he has premiered a number of his original compositions and works by other contemporary composers. Many of his compositions for marimba are published and have already become standard repertoire for marimbists world-wide. A frequent lecture/recitalist for the Percussive Arts Society, Stout has appeared at 12 International PAS Conventions to date as featured marimbist, as well as throughout the United States and Canada, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Hungary and Mexico. In May of 1983 he performed clinics and recitals in France, Germany, Holland and Belgium with “transcendental virtuosity”, being described as “the Rubinstein of all aspects of the marimba.”
when I was in sante Fe in 2006, there was a marimba/mbira shop which held classes and sold them. Now I can’t find them listed online.
do you know what it was called and/or if they’ve moved to another town/state?
I so want to be doing that myself and time keeps marching on….I’m 63 now! Always been a non professional percussionist and somewhat of a piano player so marimba just feels natural to me. Illness at current time prevents living in any of the places I know of that it’s taught..unless I could live in outlying areas..which is something I should consider!