Dr. Bryan Stanley is a pianist-composer headquartered in Park City, Utah, USA. He is published by Hal Leonard, Boosey & Hawkes and G. Schirmer that include  arrangements of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring for violin/piano and solo piano; and a Hal Leonard Vocal Library book of American Folksong concert arrangements (2003). In 2010 The Utah Youth Symphony commissioned and premiered his Serenade to Spring scored for four harps, strings and brass at the famed Salt Lake City Mormon Tabernacle. His compositions have also been performed with the Riverton Symphony Orchestra, at St. Louis Community College, Indiana University-Southeast, Simpson College, University of Oklahoma, and Lewis University. Stanley has been composing an ever-growing body of sacred works at the Park City Community Methodist Church where he directs, including a 2011 choral-orchestral Christmas Cantata of six movements containing original music and innovative carol arrangements. Dr. Stanley currently is working on a new one-act opera, as well as  an audio-visual project with artist/actress Coco Bell. Together, they experiment with the relationships between music and painting, and the ways in which one medium inspires or informs the other.

 

Dr. Stanley has most recently performed as a concert artist at venues in Park City, Salt Lake City, St. Louis, and the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation. A frequent collaborative guest artist with the Park City International Chamber Music Festival, Dr. Stanley also accompanies, coaches and lectures and has played for President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In 1997 the Des Moines Metro Opera premiered his one-act chamber opera, The Cask of Amontillado, the result of winning a national chamber opera competition sponsored by the company. The premiere, which he conducted, was enthusiastically reviewed in the November 1997 issue of Opera News magazine.

 

Dr. Stanley has a DMA in composition from the University of Oklahoma in 2002, an MM in piano performance from University of Missouri-Kansas City (1996), and a BM in piano performance from Simpson College (1994).