Harvey Stokes Collection
Biography
Collection Scope and Contents
Key to Finding Aids Terms / Scores and Parts: Alphabetical List / Scores and Parts: Chronological List / Correspondence / DCR Exhibit Material / Photographs / Programs, Program Notes, etc / Reviews, Publicity and Newspaper Articles / Introduction
BIOGRAPHY
Harvey Jeffery Stokes was born in 1957. He attended Michigan State University (Ph.D.), the University of Georgia (M.M.), and East Carolina University (B.M.), prior to accepting his current position as Professor of Music at Hampton University in 1990. He is the founder and director of Hampton's Computer Music Laboratory. The recipient of numerous composition awards, including those sponsored by the Lancaster Festival and the New England Conservatory of Music, Dr. Stokes is an accomplished oboist and the author of two books - A Selected Annotated Bibliography on Italian Serial Composers and Compositional Language in the Oratorio The Second Act : The Composer as Analyst.
His works have been performed by the Richmond Symphony, the Richmond Chamber Players, the Virginia Beach Symphony, the Oxford String Quartet, the Lancaster Symphony, the Quapaw String Quartet, the Still Quartet, the Downtown String Ensemble, the Georgia Woodwind Quintet, the New England Conservatory Contemporary Ensemble, and the Milhaud Trio. He was also an invited composer-in-residency at West Chester University.
Old Dominion University Libraries and Hampton University's Harvey Library co-sponsored a concert and exhibit of Hampton University Composers of the twentieth century. The concert was at ODU in Chandler Hall on September 19, 1999 and at Hampton University in the Harvey Library Meeting Room on October 17, 1999. The exhibit was displayed at ODU from September 19 to October 1 and at Hampton University from October 17 to November 1. As part of the event, the Diehn Composers Room presented an online exhibit, entitled "From Exposition to Development: The Legacy of Composers at Hampton University." To access the section of the Diehn Composers Room's online exhibit that pertains to Harvey Stokes, click here. Dr. Stokes also participated in the 2001 annual Region III Society of Composers, Inc. Conference held at Old Dominion University.
The Harvey Stokes Collection contains second copies of scores and performance programs from 1983-1999, correspondence from 1980-1997, newspaper articles from 1980-1998, and a photograph. First copies of his scores are part of the New Music Performance Collection.