Dwight Stone is a composer, pianist, and conductor in the Bay Area of California. His compositions reflect his involvement in many facets of music: vocal, choral, brass, orchestra, guitar, and piano. Stone’s harmonic language lies in the tonal realm evoking harmonies beyond the mainstream with a penchant for aesthetic dissonance and polychords.

He has won numerous prizes in the Music Teachers' Association of California (MTAC) Composition Competition as well as the United States Open Music Competition (USOMC) for original piano composition, for piano improvisation, and other awards for choral works.

An advocate of public performance, Dwight Stone founded St. Paul's Concert Series in Walnut Creek, and Trinity Concert Series in Pleasanton, both thriving venues.

The StoneMusique Catalog comprises over 60 pieces for piano, three dozen compositions for chorus, selections for brass, solo voice, orchestra, and chamber ensemble. Commissions include Whither Thou Goest (piano solo), An Irish Blessing (SSAA a cappella); Awake! Awake! (TTBB, 2 French horns, pianoforte) winning first prize in the Jewish Music Competition of Los Angeles; Psalm 100—Make a Joyful Noise! (SATB Choir, oboe, organ, timpani).

His setting of the transformative poem And On That Day (Rev. Will McGarvey, Interfaith Council of Contra Costa County) was composed for the World Peace Interfaith Celebration (2015). Love Is!, a gospel-pop composition for chorus and baritone solo (composed for Millennium Dream, Los Angeles) was performed at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Interfaith Celebration in Walnut Creek (2017).

Dwight Stone’s original Amsterdam CD (flute and piano) with flutist Nika Rejto was featured at the Greater San Francisco International Flute Festival, and at the Festival of New American Music (FENAM) in Sacramento. He has performed concerts internationally (New Zealand; Croatia; Austria; France), and locally as solo artist, accompanist, popular music with “The Touchstones”, and jazz with The CoolTones Big Band.

Dwight Stone resides in Walnut Creek, serving as Minister of Music and Worship at Trinity Lutheran Church, Pleasanton, where his compositions, arrangements and accompaniments continue to charm singers, congregations, and audiences alike.

https://www.stonemusique.com