The College of the Arts is pleased to announce that School of Music faculty member, Dr. Stuart Gerber, has been awarded an internal faculty grant to produce a new recording project, “Hazy Moonlight: New Works for Saxophone and Percussion.” The funding is made possible through the Office of Research Development, a unit of University Research Services & Administration.
“I’m incredibly excited to receive this grant! It will help bring to life a studio-quality premiere recording featuring six recently commissioned works by Bent Frequency, the ensemble-in-residence in the School of Music,” said Dr. Gerber. “This support affirms the importance of performance-focused creative activities and provides the resources needed to produce a high-quality record. I appreciate the university’s commitment to supporting the creative work of its faculty.”
“Hazy Moonlight: New Works for Saxophone and Percussion” is to be released by New Focus Records and represents an important form of scholarly publication for performing musicians, showcasing newly commissioned contemporary works and advancing creative research in performance.
Dr. Gerber, a School of Music professor specializing in percussion, is a founding member of Bent Frequency, and is regularly heard as extra percussionist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
Lauded as having “consummate virtuosity” by The New York Times, Dr. Gerber has performed extensively throughout the North America, Europe, Australia, and Malaysia. Recent engagements include: The Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video, and Music Festival, the Montreal New Music Festival, Electronic Music Malta Festival, The Eduardo MATA Festival in Oaxaca, Mexico, the KLANG Festival at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Cervantino Festival in Guanajuato, Mexico, the Now Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, the Chihuahua International Music Festival in Mexico, the Gulbenkian Center in Lisbon, Portugal, the South Bank Centre in London, the Ultraschall Festival in Berlin, Germany, the Melbourne Recital Centre and the Sydney Spring Festival in Australia, the Spoleto Festival, and the Savannah Music Festival.
The Georgia State University Faculty Internal Grants Program provides funding to support innovative research, scholarship, and creative activities across all disciplines. The program is a multi-level, competitive internal funding initiative that positions faculty to succeed at various stages of the research process.