Some Interesting Facts About Mr. Stalter...

    Education: Eureka High School, 1984 (Go Hornets!)

                       Bachelor of Music Education (cum laude), Illinois State University, 1988 (Go Redbirds!)

                       Master of Music in Trumpet Performance, Illinois State University, 1990

    Favorite Foods:

                       There isn't much food that I don't like, really...Italian and Chinese food rank right up there, along with a good steak and my wife's home-cooked ribs.  Oh, and Mexican food, too.  Just put it on a plate, and I'll eat it.

    Favorite Things To Do:

                        Play my trumpet at church; golf; PlayStation games, particularly Guitar Hero II (rock on!); Collect recordings of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; listen to my hero, Adolph "Bud" Herseth, play.

    Favorite Music:

                        The Symphonies of Beethoven, Mahler, and Brahms; the piano music of Beethoven, Chopin, and Satie; anything by Giovanni Gabrieli; Copland's Third Symphony; the band music of Vincent Persichetti, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, David Maslanka, and Frank Ticheli; Rush; The Beatles; Miles Davis; and whatever I happen to be conducting at the moment!

    Favorite Movies:

                        Any one of the Star Trek movies, as well as the Star Wars saga, and anything that has a score by John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, David Arnold, or James Horner.  Also "Spinal Tap," "A Mighty Wind," and "The Blues Brothers."

    Favorite Books:

                        "Song and Wind," by Arnold Jacobs;  "Einstein's Violin," by Joseph Eger; "A Good Walk Spoiled" and "The Majors," by John Feinstein; "Composers on Composing for Band," by Mark Camphouse; "The Collected Essays of Rick Baker," by Terry Bibo-Baker.

    Favorite "other life": Being a composer

                        I am so fortunate that my band music is published by Alfred Music, Inc., one of the largest print music companies in the world.  My music has been performed in the U.S., Canada, England, Australia, Greece, Wales, and Japan...totally cool.  Also, I am a member of ASCAP In December 2007, two of my pieces, "Poeme," and "Clouds That Sail In Heaven" were performed at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, IL. Normal Community High School played the world premiere of "Then I Saw the Lucent Sky" on December 11, 2007. I have recently completed a piece called "Critical Mass" for the Lanier Middle School Band in Duluth, GA, and "Rampage!" was performed this summer at the Interlochen summer music camp. My music has also been performed by such ensembles as the Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony, the Emory University Wind Ensemble, and by ensembles at the Bands of America (Music for All) Summer Symposium.