Since 1996, Stefan has been a member of the Eddie Gomez Trio and Quartet (including Jimmy Cobb, Billy Drummond, Billy Hart, Nasheet Waits, Ed Soph, Jeremy Steig, and Rodrigo Villanueva), frequently touring Asia, Mexico, South America, Europe and the United States. He has been a recording artist for Justice Records, Cambria/Troppe Note Records and currently Bebyne His discography includes 72 recordings, with nine CD projects under his own leadership. His extensive travel schedule has taken him both as a performer and educator throughout Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Scotland, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Dominican Republic, and the United States. In addition to his teaching duties, Stefan stays very active as guest performer and Artist-in-Residence at concert venues, festivals, clubs, and universities worldwide. He has also been part of the Stanford Jazz Workshop for eight years as a clinician and performer.īeginning fall 2015, Stefan will be joining the jazz studies faculty at the University of Texas at Arlington as a visiting professor. As an active recruiter for the UNT jazz piano area, his former student accomplishments include: first place winners of the Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition and the Phillips Jazz Piano Competition in Pensacola finalists in the All American Jazz Piano Competition and the Barry Harris Jazz Piano Competition invitations to the Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead program at the Lincoln Center recipients of the Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Award (sponsored by ASCAP) and the Yamaha Young Performing Artist award numerous Down Beat student awards keyboardist with famed Eminem and various college teaching positions throughout the USA. He also established two student exchange programs between UNT’s college of music and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden, and the Conservatori Liceu in Barcelona, Spain. While at UNT, Stefan had a great deal of success with his combo class by implementing a guest artist residency program and recording experience for the students, which resulted in four combo CD releases. In 2002, Stefan joined the jazz faculty in the division of jazz studies at the University of North Texas, where he taught until 2014. During his last year as a UNT student, Stefan signed a three-year recording contract with Justice Records in Houston, Texas.Īfter graduation, Stefan lived in Denver, Colorado (1991-1994) and in Las Vegas, Nevada (1994-2002), where he fulfilled his duties as professor of music and coordinator of jazz studies at the University of Nevada. While at UNT he became, for three years, a member of the well known One O’clock Lab Band, and received the “Outstanding Graduate Student in Jazz Studies Award” in 1991. Stefan spent six years at UNT earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees. A native of Sweden, Stefan came to the United States in 1984 to study at the University of North Texas (UNT) due to his association with former UNT professors Rich Matteson, Jack Peterson and Jim Riggs.
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