Visiting Artist Series: Jeff Stern, percussion

Thursday, January 11, 2024
9:45 a.m.
Morrison Center Academic Wing, Room B125

Boise State Music is pleased to welcome percussionist Jeff Stern for a special educational percussion clinic. Though largely intended for students, this event is open to the public. Admission is free.

About Jeff Stern: Known for performing “with precision and an impressive attention to timbral detail” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), percussionist Jeff Stern has developed a voice to listen for in today’s contemporary music scene. He has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia and has collaborated with and championed the work of a number of the world’s preeminent composers.

Stern is the executive director, co-artistic director, and founding percussionist of 2 piano/2 percussion group icarus Quartet. Winner of the 2019 Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition, icarus is quickly gaining the attention of composers, presenters and audiences everywhere.

Stern performs as an extra percussionist for the Baltimore Symphony and with several new music ensembles, including Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, Mind on Fire, NewPrism Ensemble, NakedEye Ensemble, and ensemble mise-en, with whom he toured in Hong Kong in 2018. He has appeared at the Yellow Barn Music Festival, the Bang on a Can Summer Festival, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the Eighth Blackbird Creative Lab, and can be heard on the Albany, Elm City, Bright Shiny Things, figureight and Cantaloupe record labels.

Stern serves as Lecturer in Percussion at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. He holds a B.M. from UMass Amherst, an M.M. from the Peabody Conservatory, where he was awarded the Harold Randolph Prize in Performance, and an Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music. Stern is a proud artist endorser of Vic Firth sticks and mallets, Zildjian cymbals, Evans drumheads, and Pearl/Adams drums and percussion.

For more info on Stern, please visit his website here.