Mr. Stottlemyer is a specialist in the percussion traditions from The Middle East, North Africa (particularly the frame drums of Egypt and Nubia), Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America.  He has studied with master percussionists Michel Merhej Baklouk, Karim Nagi Mohammed, N. Scott Robinson, Larry Bright, and Luis Garay.  From 2000-2002 he was a member of Luis Garay's Percussion World, a group performing the musics of West Africa and Latin America for audiences across Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia.  He's performed at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, The Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land, Saint Matthew's Cathedral, The Chesapeake Arts Center, and Schlesinger Concert Hall.  In 1999 Mr. Stottlemyer made his national television debut on PBS. 

Mr. Stottlemyer is the Director of Bands and Music Department Chair at Brooklyn Park Middle School, Baltimore, MD.  There he has instituted the use of traditional North African frame drums and techniques in the general music classroom to facilitate the learning of rhythms.  He is a dedicated educator with much experience  in culturally and socio-economically diverse populations, including Title I schools.  He is an in-demand clinician, having hosted workshops in frame drumming and in orchestral percussion and is a regular facilitator of drum circles, using percussion and rhythm to create a sense of unity, balance, and community among participants.  He teaches world and orchestral percussion at The Chesapeake Arts Center in Baltimore, MD and  is a percussionist for The Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Ulysses S. James.  Mr. Stottlemyer is currently in the process of recording his first solo album  in addition to writing a progressive method for drum set and compositions for world percussion.

Mr. Stottlemyer is available for performances, workshops, clinics, drum circle facilitation & private study.  View Schedule