T. Adam Blackstock/Stout Duo
Nagoya Marimbas
Focus Day Performance
Thursday, 5:00 p.m.

T. Adam Blackstock	Gordon Stout

Nationally and internationally recognized soloist, recitalist, and clinician, Dr. T. Adam Blackstock currently serves as Assistant Professor of Percussion Studies/Assistant Director of Bands at Troy University, and as Principal Timpanist with the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra. His duties at Troy University include teaching private lessons and percussion methods courses, conducting the percussion ensemble, and instructing and arranging for the “Sound of the South” percussion section. In addition to performing recitals and administering clinics nationwide, Blackstock has performed as a soloist at the 13th Annual Festival of Percussion in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2006 and in Vilnius, Lithuania in 2007. While in Vilnius, Dr. Blackstock presented recitals and clinics, and performed as a featured soloist with the Trimitis Wind Ensemble. Blackstock has been featured as a marimba soloist at two PASICs (2008 and 2010) and is a reviewer for Percussive Notes.  Dr. Blackstock endorses Black Swamp Percussion and Musser marimbas and is an artist/clinician for Innovative Percussion and Remo.

Gordon Stout is a Professor of Percussion at the School of Music at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York where he has taught percussion since 1980. A composer as well as a percussionist who specializes on marimba, he has 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 already become standard repertoire for marimbists worldwide -- as well as works by other contemporary composers.  A frequent lecturer/recitalist for PAS, Gordon Stout has appeared as a featured marimbist at twelve PASICs. Gordon was on the jury of the 1st and 2nd Leigh Howard Stevens International Marimba Competitions (1995 and 1998), the 2nd and 3rd World Marimba Competitions in Okaya, Japan (1999) and Stuttgart, Germany (2002), and the International Marimba Competition in Linz, Austria (2006).

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