User:Jstuckenbruck

Conductor, Double Bassist, Composer, Teacher

He is music director and co-founder of the Apollo Ensemble, a student-run chamber orchestra in the Boston area, and sings with the Boston University Symphonic Choir.

As a conductor he has been an active participant in several music festivals rehearsing and performing operatic/symphonic works by Brahms, Schumann, Mozart, Bach, Mahler, Handel and Tchaikovsky. At the CW Post Chamber Music Festival in 2010 he was the recipient of the Outstanding Conductor Award for a performance of “Gieng heut’ Morgen über’s Feld” by Mahler. His teachers have included Isaiah Jackson, Constantine Kitsopoulos, Alexander Dashnaw and Susan Deaver.

Stuckenbruck was the third bassist in the history of Associate Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) to be invited to perform a recital at their annual High Scorer’s Concert in which he gave “a flowing performance” of Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise. He was principal bassist several years running at the CW Post Chamber Music Festival at which he participated in master classes with Karen Hansen-Gellert. From 2007-2009 he received his early music training with Dale Stuckenbruck at the Lambton, Quebec Music Festival. His other teachers have included Jim Bickel and Donald Palma.

Johann was raised in a musical family; his father, a pianist and his aunt and uncle are both professional musicians in New York. Although born in Trenton, New Jersey he spent the first three years of his life in Kiel, Germany and 15 years in Durham, United Kingdom. His studies in music began from the age of 6, firstly studying piano and then picking up the cello, electric bass and finally the double bass by the age of 16.

Johann Stuckenbruck is currently a fourth-semester composition major at Berklee College of Music.

January 28th 2011