Born in 1981, Stacy Wilson grew up in North Carolina and began playing the saxophone at the age of 13. She is currently an Associate Instructor of Saxophone at Indiana University Bloomington while pursuing the Doctor of Music degree in Saxophone Performance and Literature. Stacy earned the Master of Music in Saxophone Performance from Indiana University as a recipient of IU’s prestigious Performer’s Certificate, the institution’s highest honor for instrumental performers, and also holds the B.M. in Saxophone Performance degree from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Stacy has studied primarily with Otis Murphy, Steve Stusek and Virginia-Novine Whittaker but has also had the opportunity to study with world-renowned saxophonists, Arno Bornkamp and Vincent David.
Stacy has participated in numerous competitions from regional to international levels. She most recently was selected as a semi-finalist in the Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition held at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand and was selected as the 1st prize winner in the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Instrumental Competition. Stacy became the first saxophonist to win First Prize in the William C. Byrd International Young Artist Competition held in March of 2005. As a winner of this competition, she had her professional solo debut as a concerto soloist with the Flint Symphony Orchestra in Michigan performing Henri Tomasi’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra. Additionally, Stacy received First Prize in the prestigious MTNA National Collegiate Artist Woodwind Performance Competition in 2003 by a unanimous decision by the judging panel, Third Prize in the North American Saxophone Alliance Young Artist Classical Competition (2004), First Prize in the Indiana University Travel Grant Competition (2007) and winner of both the Indiana University Woodwind Concerto Competition and the UNCG Annual Concerto Competition.
Most recently, Stacy won a Recording Grant Competition that will enable her to record her debut solo CD in 2008. This recording will be distributed on the Emeritus recording label and will include works by Florent Schmitt, Michael Djupstrom, Marius Constant, Christian Lauba, and Edison Denisov. She has also recorded for award-winning composer, Don Freund, in a video project aimed to assist composers and students in writing idiomatically for the saxophone. In 2006, Stacy traveled to Laubach, Germany to participate in the 2nd International Masterclass for Classical Saxophone as a scholarship recipient to study with world-renowned saxophonists Arno Bornkamp and Vincent David. As a participant in the masterclass, Stacy was a featured soloist on a recital at the Hessenbrukenmuhle performing Christian Lauba’s Steady Study on the Boogie.
Aside from her frequent performances of traditional and transcribed works for the saxophone, Stacy is an advocate of new music. She frequently takes part in premiers and has commissioned several new works from talented young composers, Brian Buch, Erik Norman and Jonathan Sokol, to name a few. She has performed guest artist recitals at the Music at St. Paul’s Concert Series in Michigan, Western Kentucky University, North Carolina School of the Arts and the Carolina Saxophone Symposium and has taught masterclasses throughout the midwest and North Carolina. Stacy is a member of the North American Saxophone Alliance and has performed as a soloist and chamber musician at NASA Biennial Conferences.