Ben Stonaker
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March 27, 2013 - UT New Music Ensemble - Austin, TX
Rehearsals and performance of Andrea Clearfield's Trax and Ben Stonaker's Phosphenes I: Isolation

February 18, 2013 - UT New Music Ensemble - Austin, TX
Rehearsals and performance of Charles Ives' The Steeples and the Mountains..., Brandon Rumsey's Spellbound, and Charles Ives' Scherzo: Over the Pavements

November 30, 2012 - UT New Music Ensemble - Austin, TX
Rehearsals and performance of Egemen Kesikli's Twelve Days of Ecstacy

November 5, 2012 - UT New Music Ensemble - Austin, TX
Rehearsals and performance of Andrew Davis' Midnight Drearies for chamber orchestra
(Also included rehearsing sectionals of Ligeti's Chamber Concerto)

Spring 2012 ~ Lafourche Parish High School ~ Raceland, LA
Rehearsing and conducting the first Central Lafourche High School Chamber Wind Ensemble. 
Program: Salvation is Created - Tchesnokov/Houseknecht, Waltz from Jazz Suite - Shostakovich/Stonaker, Symphony of Pslams, I. - Stravinsky/Stonaker

February 7, 2012 ~ Lafourche Parish Honor Band ~ Raceland, LA
October by Eric Whitacre (Warm-up and rehearsal for Parish Honor Band)

October 26, 2011 ~ Lafourche Parish Professional Development ~ Raceland, LA
Conducted and rehearsed Hollow Pulse and Deviation during the Lafourche Parish Music Teachers' Professional Development Day. Included a discussion about new, non-standard music and notation for young bands.

June 23, 2011 ~ Sound Theater Ensemble ~ Kansas City, MO
Helped rehearse and conduct (while playing clarinet) on Jon Robertson's And the TV said...

May 16, 2011 ~ Central Lafourche High School ~ Mathews, LA
Rehearsals and performance of Catawampus by Ben Stonaker for winds, percussion, and two conductors. Grant Duplessis, conductor #2.

March 2011 ~ Lafourche Parish Honor Band ~ Raceland, LA
Shepherd’s Hey by Percy Grainger and Symphonic Dance No. 3 by Clifton Williams -    Rehearsals for the Lafouche Parish Honor Band

April – March 2010 ~ Lafourche Parish Honor Band ~ Raceland, LA
Dusk by Steven Bryant - Rehearsals and performance at the Louisiana District VII Large Ensemble Festival, Nicholls State University.

December 2010 ~ Central Lafourche High School ~ Mathews, LA
Rehearsals and performance of Music for a Darkened Theater arranged by Ben Stonaker for symphonic band.

April 2008 ~ UMKC ~ Kansas City, MO
Rehearsals and performance for Kelvin King-fung Ng’s The Pale Bone from Dragon Spring for chamber ensemble. Duration: 14 minutes

October-November 2007 ~ UMKC Musica Nova ~ Kansas City, MO
Rehearsals and two live, synchronized performances of original music composed by three UMKC composers (Nihan Yesil, Lee Hartman, Jonathan Robertson) for the silent film Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1920); commissioned by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, MO; guest conductor for UMKC Musica Nova; duration: 80 minutes

August 2007 ~ UMKC ~ Kansas City, MO
Rehearsals and recording session for Xinyan Li’s Assassin for chamber orchestra; duration: 15 minutes

Winter 2006 ~ UMKC ~ Kansas City, MO
Rehearsals and recording session for Xinyan Li’s Luxurious for flute, cello, and piano; duration: 10 minutes

December 2005 ~ UMKC ~ Kansas City, MO
Rehearsals and performance of Ryan Oldham’s Wanderlust for chamber orchestra; duration: 12 minutes

December 2004 ~ UMKC ~ Kansas City, MO
Rehearsals and performance of Tan Hainü’s String Quartet No. 1; duration: 14 minutes

Spring 2004 ~ LSU ~ Baton Rouge, LA
Alicia Johnson Senior Composition Recital - Rehearsed and conducted three pieces on Ms. Johnson’s Senior Composition Recital; duration: approximately 30 minutes

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