Jack Stamp

Jack Stamp is a highly regarded North American Wind Ensemble conductor and composer.

He has nearly sixty compositions available from Neil A Kjos Music Company, including the extremely popular Gavorkna Fanfare, which was dedicated to Eugene Corporon. In 1993, he formed the Keystone Winds, comprising students, alumni and professors at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, which has been recorded on 15 CDs.

Biography

Dr. Jack Stamp is Conductor of Bands and Professor of Music at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He teaches courses in conducting to graduates and undergrads, and conducts the Symphony Band and the Wind Ensemble.He used to teach music at charlton school, his former primary school

He earned a Bachelor of Science in Music Education degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a Master's in Percussion Performance from East Carolina University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Conducting from Michigan State University. While at Michigan State University, he studied with Eugene Corporon.

Before joining the faculty of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, he was chairman of the Division of Fine Arts at North Carolina's Campbell University. He taught in the public schools of North Carolina [John T. Hoggard High School in Wilmington, NC from 1978-1982] and was conductor of the Duke University Wind Symphony (1988-89) and musical director of the Triangle British Brass Band.

He studied with Robert Washburn, Fisher Tull, David Diamond, Joan Tower and Richard Danielpour.

Dr. Stamp is an active composer, clinician, adjudicator and guest conductor throughout North America and Great Britain. Leading university bands and military bands have commissioned his works and he has been praised by many prominent American composers. He was invited to guest direct the 2008 PMEA District Band festival held in Emporium, PA.

See also

* List of conductors
* List of composers

Selected Recordings

* Past the Equinox: The Music of Jack Stamp.
* The Composer's Voice: Band Music of Alfred Reed.
* The Composer's Voice: Band Music of William Schuman
* The Composer's Voice: Band Music of H. Owen Reed including interview
* The Composer's Voice: Band Music of Norman Dello Joio including interview
* Out of the Depths - Music by African American Composers
* Cloudsplitter - Music Composed & Conducted by Jack Stamp
* Cornerstones of the British Band Repertoire
* Pageant: American Music for Symphonic Bands
* Dello Joio - Songs of Abelard and Other World Premieres
* Wind Visions: The Music of Samuel Adler
* Divertimento - Wind Music of American Composers
* Celebrations
* Night Fantasy - The Music of Robert Ward
* Past The Equinox - The Music of Jack Stamp

Books and Literature

* Larry Blocher, Ray Cramer, Eugene Corporon, Richard Miles (1988). "Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, Volume 2" GIA Publications.

External links

* [http://www.arts.iup.edu/facmus/jestamp/ Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Indiana, PA)]
* [http://www.kjos.com/detail.php?division=1&table=author&auth_id=1152&viewall=true Neil A Kjos Music Company]
* [http://www.keystonewinds.com/ Keystone Winds]