Biography

Los Angeles based percussionist and drummer Nick Stone has made his career performing across the world, including such countries as France, South Africa, and China. He has performed in venues from Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and Disney Hall in Los Angeles.

A native of LA, he has performed with many different ensembles around Southern California including The Echo Society, The New West Symphony, The Hollywood Chamber Orchestra, and The Southeast Symphony.

He has recorded with such composers as Joe Trapanese, Rob Simonsen, Kris Bowers, Jeremy Zuckerman, Benjamin Wynn, Judson Crane, Nathan Johnson, and ESKMO.

Nick is a passionate musical theatre percussionist and can often be seen at the La Mirada Theatre. for the Performing Arts. As a drummer he plays with Cockeyed Optimist, Do Something, and The Evangenitals. He recently concluded playing the Xylophone throughout the run of Trippledent Gum Presents the Pixarmonic Orchestra at Disney California Adventure.

For 2011 - 2013 he was a member of the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in Durban, South Africa, serving as Co-Principal Timpani and Principal Percussion. With this group he toured across South Africa and to Europe.

Conductors he has worked under include Leonard Slatkin, David Robertson, Michael Stern, JoAnn Falleta, Robert Spano, and Rossen Milanov. He earned his Bachelor's Degree from Indiana University where his teachers included Gerald Carlyss, Kevin Bobo, and Steve Houghton and received his Master's Degree from Rutgers University, studying with Joe Tompkins and Markus Rhoten. He additionally studied Afro-Cuban percussion with Michael Spiro and Javier Diaz.
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