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George B. Stauffer
Dean, Mason Gross School of the Arts |
George B. Stauffer is Dean of the Mason Gross School of the Arts and Professor of Music History at Rutgers University. He is known internationally as a scholar, performer, and writer on the music and culture of the Baroque Era and the life and works of J.S. Bach in particular. Educated at Dartmouth College, Bryn Mawr College, and Columbia University, he has published eight books on Baroque music and Bach including, most recently, Bach: The Mass in B Minor and The World of Baroque Music. He has also contributed to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Collier's Encyclopedia, Early Music, Bach-Jahrbuch, and many other American, European, and Asian publications. He has also penned feature articles for The New York Times and and The Weekly Standard. As a speaker, Stauffer has lectured at Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, University of Leipzig, National Sun Yat-sen University, and many other colleges and universities in the United States and abroad, and at concert venues such as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Merkin Hall. As a performer, Stauffer studied organ with Robert Elmore, John Weaver, and Vernon de Tar, and from 1977 to 1999 served as University Organist and Chapel Music Director at Columbia University, where he appeared frequently in concert. His Bach playing has been termed "fluent, four-square, and solidly musical" by The New York Times. He is a featured artist on the 4-CD album, The Great Organs of New York. Before coming to Rutgers, Stauffer taught at Hunter College (where he served as Chair of the Music Department and Program in Dance) and the Graduate Center of CUNY, and at Yeshiva University. He has held IREX, Guggenheim, Fulbright, ACLS, and Bogliasco fellowships, and is a former President of the American Bach Society. Stauffer has a college-age son, Matthew, and is married to marimbist She-e Wu. His hobbies include canoeing and squash. At Rutgers As Dean of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, Stauffer oversees the departments of Dance, Music, Theater Arts, and Visual Arts. Since his arrival in August 2000, he has facilitated the construction of Bettenbender Plaza, a new, 20,000 sq. ft. gathering and outdoor performance space in the Mason Gross Performing Arts Center, and he has introduced two new series, "Rutgers in New York" and "Mason Gross Presents." "Rutgers in New York" has featured highly successful, packed-house performances by Mason Gross students and faculty in Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Majestic Theater, the Kaye Playhouse, and Blue Note, and a week-long art exhibition at the Bill Maynes Gallery in Manhattan. Under Stauffer's leadership, Mason Gross raised $11.7 million in the last Rutgers Capital Campaign, "Creating the Future Today." In 2002 the school achieved its largest annual fund-raising total, $7.3 million, and the largest single gift in its history, the distinguished $5.5 million print collection of artist June Wayne. Since then Stauffer has raised another $9 million, the bulk of which has been used to enlarge the school’s endowment.
Stauffer's future plans for Mason Gross include
raising additional funds for student scholarships and faculty support
and the construction of two facilities,
a new Music and Dance building on the Douglass campus
and a new black box theater within the
recently announced New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.
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