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Dr. Stuart Gerber a.k.a stu

Hailed as "Instrumentalist of the Year, Percussion" by the Wisconsin Area Music Industry (W.A.M.I.), Stuart Gerber is currently Assistant Professor and Percussion Coordinator at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Dr. Gerber

has performed extensively throughout the US, Europe, Australia, Canada and Mexico. As an active performer of new works, Stuart has been involved in a number of commissions and world-premiere performances. He gave the world premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's last solo percussion work Himmels-Tür in Italy in 2005 and has also worked with other leading composers such as Steve Reich, Kaija Saariaho, Fred Rzewski and George Crumb. Dr. Gerber is a founding member of the Atlanta-based new music group Bent Frequency, and performs regularly as an extra percussionist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

Dr. Michael Fowler a.k.a mdf

Dr. Michael Fowler, studied piano firstly in Australia with Colin Spiers at the University of Newcastle, then in the US at the University of Cincinnati (CCM). He has also undertaken advance studies in the synthesizer and synthesizer programming with Antonio Pérez Abellán (Stockhausen-Stiftung). Fowler has performed at venues and festivals in Japan, USA, Canada, Mexico, Germany, and Australia as a solo pianist and chamber musician who specializes in electro-acoustic avant-garde music. He has given Australian premieres of the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Elliott Carter, and worked with the likes of Steve Reich, Benjamin Boretz, Gerorge Crumb and Milton Babbitt. Fowler was an Australian Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow from 2006-08 at the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory at RMIT University, Melbourne Australia. He has also published in journals such as Perspectives of New Music, Architectural Research Quarterly, and the OPEN SPACE.