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, and Mexico.

As an active performer of new works, Dr. Gerber has been involved in a number of commissions and world-premiere performances. This past summer he gave the world premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's latest solo percussion work Himmels-Tür in Italy. In the summer of 2005 he gave the world-premiere of Mittwoch-Formel (also by Stockhausen) at the annual Stockhausen-Courses in Kürten, Germany. He has also given the U.S. and Australian premieres of Stockhausen's duo version of Nasenflügeltanz for percussion and synthesizer, and the U.S. premiere of his solo percussion work Komet. Since July 2005 Dr. Gerber has been the faculty percussionist for the Stockhausen-Courses, and recorded two works for the Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 79. This fall he will record two more works for upcoming Stockhausen-Verlag releases.

In addition to his work with Stockhausen, Dr. Gerber has worked with many other notable composers, such as Kaija Saariaho, Steve Reich, Tristan Murail, Frederic Rzewski, George Crumb, Tania Lèon, Michael Colgrass, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon and John Luther Adams.

He was recently a featured performer and pedagogue at the Hannover-Schlagfest percussion festival in Germany, and at the 2005 Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) in Columbus, Ohio (his third PASIC appearance). He also is featured on the world-premiere recording of John Luther Adams' Strange and Sacred Noise with the Percussion Group Cincinnati, released in November 2005 by Mode records.

Dr. Gerber is a founding member of the Atlanta-based new music group Bent Frequency, performs internationally with the Australian pianist Michael Fowler in ENSEMBLE SIRIUS, and is regularly heard as extra percussionist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

Dr. Gerber received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin College Conservatory where he studied with Michael Rosen, and was awarded a Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). His teachers at CCM were Allen Otte, Russell Burge, and James Culley of the Percussion Group Cincinnati. He has also done advanced studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover, Germany, with Professor Andreas Boettger.