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Prize-winning conductor and award-winning teacher Brian Stone has worked both in the opera pit and on the concert stage with professional orchestras throughout the world, including work with universities and conservatories across the country, to both public and institutional acclaim. In opera, Stone has conducted some fifteen different full productions and served as a judge for the National Association for Teachers of Singing and the Austrian-American Society’s Mozarteum Scholarship.

Dr. Stone is a graduate of Bennington College in Vermont, where he studied composition, viola, and literature. He received a Master of Music degree and a Doctorate in conducting from the Peabody Conservatory where he studied with Frederik Prausnitz and Gustav Meier. Further studies in conducting took place at Le Domaine Forget in Canada with Otto-Werner Mueller and two summers at the Festival at Sandpoint with Gunther Schuller. He also studied with Harvey Pittel on saxophone, Jacob Glick on viola, Bill Dixon in improvisation, and Allen Shawn and Henry Brant in composition.