Stacy Wilson is currently an Associate Instructor of Saxophone at Indiana University Bloomington while pursuing the Doctor of Music degree in Saxophone Performance. She earned the Master of Music in Saxophone Performance from Indiana University in 2005, and the Bachelor of Music degree in Saxophone Performance from the University of North Carolina Greensboro in 2003 where she graduated Cum Laude. Stacy has studied primarily with world renowned saxophonists, Otis Murphy and Steven Stusek, but has also had the opportunity to have lessons with Vincent David, Arno Bornkamp, and Jan Shulte-Bunert.

A recipient of Indiana University’s prestigious Performer’s Certificate, the institution’s highest honor for instrumental performers, Stacy has garnered prizes for solo performances in National, North American and International competitions. She most recently was selected as a Semi-Finalist in the Jean Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand and also the 1st Prize Winner of the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Competition. In March 2005 Stacy became the first saxophonist to win First Prize in the William C. Byrd International Young Artist Competition. In addition, Stacy received First Prize in the prestigious Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) National Collegiate Artist Woodwind Performance Competition in a unanimous decision by the judging panel (2002-2003), Third Prize in the North American Saxophone Alliance Young Artist Classical Competition (2004), First Prize in the Greensboro Music Teachers Association Young Artist Competition (2002), First Prize in Indiana University’s Travel Grant Competition and winner of both the Indiana University Woodwind Concerto Competition and the UNCG Annual Concerto Competition.

In 2007, Stacy won a recording grant competition that will enable her to record her debut solo CD. This recording will be distributed by the Emeritus Recording label and will feature works by Edison Denisov, Florent Schmitt, Ida Gotkovsky and Sy Brandon, to name a few. The recording is scheduled to be released in late 2008 or early 2009.

Stacy has performed throughout the United States as well as Germany, Belgium and Thailand. She has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Flint Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Francesco Maria Colombo, the IU University Orchestra conducted by Uri Mayer and the UNCG Symphony Orchestra. As a scholarship recipient, Stacy studied with Arno Bornkamp and Vincent David during the 2nd and 4th Internationale Meister-Klasses fur Klassiches Saxophone and was a featured soloist at the Hessenbruckenmuhle in Labauch, Germany. Stacy has recorded for IU Professor of Composition, Don Freund, and has performed at various conventions including the Navy Band Saxophone Symposium, NASA Biennial Conferences and was a featured guest artist at the First Annual Carolina Saxophone Symposium, North Carolina School of the Arts and Western Kentucky University. She will be moving to New York in October after winning a position in the West Point Concert Band and Saxophone Quartet.