位置:
Coordinator of Strings; Professor, Bass地点:
Armstrong Hall, Room 33电话:
(540) 665-5478电子邮件: dstokes@rf518.com
工作以来:
2007应用领域:
Classical and Jazz Double Bass, Electric Bass
教育al 历史:
B.M., Vanderbilt University; M.M., D.M., Indiana University
Fields of Expertise:
String Pedagogy, Bass 历史, Bass Ensemble, Jazz and Classical Bass
专业 Highlights:
多诺万斯托克斯 enjoys a varied career of performing, 作曲, writing and teaching and has given classes and performed as soloist throughout the United States, 在墨西哥, 挪威, 意大利, 英格兰, France and the Czech Republic. His solo recording Gadaha garnered two JPF 音乐 Award rankings for Best Album and Best 仪器 Song. Described as a musician who “paints primary colours and subtle shades to considerable effect” (The Double Bassist), 斯托克斯 is also noted for his “eye-popping display of technical wizardry and showmanship” (Madison Jazz).
A full professor at Shenandoah 音乐学院, he teaches jazz and classical bass. He offers a range of online instruction and has created an Upright Slap Bass 指令al Video available exclusively online. As a composer he has enjoyed commissions from Barry Green, Blanka Bednarz, the International Society of Bassists Young Bass Division, the Valdosta Symphony Orchestra and Jerry Fuller, 等. He is also and expert in the life and work of bassist Rodion Azarkhin.
Dr. 斯托克斯 earned degrees from Vanderbilt University (B.M.) and Indiana University (M.M. 和D.M.), where his major instructors were Lawrence Hurst and Edgar Meyer. He studied fiddle styles with Crystal Ploughman and Mark O’Connor, string pedagogy with Lawrence Hurst, 海尔格Winold, Inez Wyrick and Mimi Zweig, and composition with Michael Alec Rose, Michael Kurek and Mary Jeanne Van Appledorn.
斯托克斯 is also a board member for the International Society of Bassists, and artistic director of the Bass Coalition and their Annual Bass Workshop where he head a highly selective a one-week intensive program for advanced bassists. 访问www.donovanstokes.com or find him on YouTube, 脸谱网, 推特, Snapchat and Periscope to learn more.