Active for over
20 years as a professional trumpet player, Neil has performed concerts in
the United States, England, Switzerland, Italy, Russia and currently in
Japan. In the 1980's, Neil was a featured soloist with the United States
Navy Band's Official Big Band, the "Commodores.” Neil has played styles
ranging from Bach to be-bop, including salsa, funk ,big band, free jazz,
bossa nova and fusion. As an educator, he has been teaching since 1981.
His experiences have been with students ranging in age from kindergarten
through university and adults. The teaching settings have been private,
classroom and workshops/clinics. He has performed in nightclubs, hotels,
concerts, jazz festivals and toured the U.S.A., Europe, Russia and Japan.
Education
West Virginia University, Bachelor of Music, May 1992 Berklee College
of Music, Boston, Mass. Fall 1979/Spring 1980 Catholic University,
Washington, D.C. 1984 George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
1985
Performance Experience
Numerous Tours
of Japan Yokohama (Japan) Jazz Promenade Festival Neil's East/West Unit Asahi
Jazz Festival Japan Regular Appearances in Jazz Clubs Throughout Japan Montreux
Jazz Festival - 1995 Neil Stalnaker Trio/Quartet Verbier Music
Festival, Verbier Switzerland - 1995 Neil Stalnaker Quartet I.A.J.E.
Convention (Los Angelos) - U.S. Navy Commodores Mid-West National Band
Clinic Concert (Chicago) - U.S. Navy Commodores The Greenbrier Resort
(U.S.A. Top 10 Resort) Numerous Perfromances USS/Imagination Carnival
Cruise Lines Musician (Miami-Cozumel-Grand Cayman-Jamaica) Concert Tour
of Russia (Moscow-St. Petersburg and others) Neil Stalnaker Quintet White
House Concerts, Washington, D.C. - U.S. Navy Band (White House Support
Unit) Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum weekly concerts -
U.S. Navy Commodores Smithsonian Institution's American History Museum
weekly concerts - Navy Commodores White House Arrival Ceremonies for
visiting Heads of State - U.S. Navy Ceremonial Band Regular appearances
in Tokyo jazz clubs (DUG, Body & Soul, "J”, Sometime, Keynote, Bb)
International Saxophone Symposium (Annual Concerts) - U.S. Navy Commodores
and guests Numerous recording sessions (TV-Radio-CD's) - Washington,
D.C./Tokyo, Japan
Performances (Japan)
Six Concert Tours
of Japan Yokohama Jazz Promenade w/ Neil's East/West Unit Asahi Jazz
Festival Asagaya Jazz Streets Kagoshima Jazz Festival Toshima
Jazz Festival Rikkyo University Senzoku College of Music Ana
Hotel, Park Hyatt Hotel, Four Seasons Hotel, Mandarin Oriental Hotel and
Tokyo Dome Hotel (Artists' Cafe) Performances at Keynote, Bb, JZ Brat,
Body & Soul, Motion Blue, Sweet Basil, Pit Inn, "J" Spot, DUG, Birdland,
TUC, Manhattan, Someday, Bar Bar Bar, Miles Cafe, Independence, Jazz Is,
Airegin, Dolphy, Meg, Half Tone, Buddy, Kenny's Bar, Royal Horse, New
Combo, Slow Boat, Spats, Star Eyes, Doxy, Jazz On Top, SOHO, Avenue, Club
China, Janome, Cookie Jar, Jazz Inn Porsche and many others.
Teaching Experience
Senzoku College of
Music Private Trumpet Instruction Ensemble Intruction Improvisation
Instruction
Davis and Elkins College, Adjunct faculty 1992-96 Trumpet/Ensembles/Improvisation
West
Virginia University Summer Jazz Camp - Instructor
Hundreds of
Elementary-Jr. High-High School-University Concerts/Clinics Throughout the
U.S.A. Private Trumpet Instruction Since 1981 West
Virginia-Washington,D.C.-Tokyo, Japan
Recordings
Swan Lake, Video Game
Music, Norihiko Hibino (producer/composer) 2005 Rouge Galaxy, video
Game Music, Norihiko Hibino (prod/comp) 2005 In Pieces, Jeff Curry
(Tokyo) 2005 ...and now the "bad news", Neil Stalnaker Quartet (Tokyo)
2005 WHY NOT?, single release by Real Book, Jroom Records May 2003
Release TV Jazz Anthology, Makoto Kuriya 2001 Siberian Express II,
Movie Soundtrack 2000 Antitheses 2, Makoto Kuriya (King Records) 1999 Double
Circle, Takeshi Ito 1998 What's Goin On, Meredith Dean Joseph 1996 Improvisation
#1 Neil Stalnaker Trio 1994 Some Bop, Navy Commodores, Washington, D.C.
1986 GLAD Live at the Kennedy Center 1985 Christmas Album U.S. Navy
Band, Washington, D.C. 1984
Professional Organizations/Associations
International
Trumpet Guild - ITG International Association of Jazz Educators - IAJE West
Virginia University Alumni Association - Lifetime Member Berklee
College of Music Alumni Association West Virginia University Music
Alumni - Lifetime Member Elkins High School Alumni Association -
Lifetime Member Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) Amateur Radio
Relay League - ARRL KB8-NQJ Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons - A.F. &
A.M. Lodge No. 108 Elkins, W.Va. Royal Arch Masons - R.A.M Grand
Chapter of W.Va. No. 35 Elkins, W.Va. Knights Templar - Commandery No.
21 Elkins, W.Va. Ancient Arabic Order Nobles Mystic Shrine -
A.A.O.N.M.S. Beni Kedem Temple Charleston, W.Va.
