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Dr. Stanley Yates is a Professor in the Department of Music at Austin Peay State University. He is a renowned classical guitarist with international recognition for performance, pedagogy, and scholarly work. His contact email is yatess@apsu.edu, and he is based in the Music Mass Comm Building Room MMC 213.
- DMA, University of North Texas
- MMus, Liverpool University (UK)
- Gdip-mus, Sandown College of Performing Arts (UK)
- LTCL, Trinity College London (UK)
Dr. Yates specializes in classical guitar performance, transcriptions, and pedagogical methods. He has been a dedicatee of numerous contemporary guitar works and revived rediscovered solo/chamber/concerto pieces. His research spans guitar history, performance practice, and 20th-century repertoire, with articles published in seven languages.
Awarded APSU's Hawkins Award for Scholarly/Creative Achievement and Bergen College's Distinguished Artist Award, he also served as advisory board member for the Guitar Foundation of America, editorial board member for the European Guitar Teachers Association, and guitar editor for the American String Teachers Association. His pedagogical works, including the Stanley Yates Series, are widely published and influential in guitar education.
- Featured guitarist for DVD 'Francisco Tarrega: His Life and Music'
- Featured guitarist on Mel Bay's best-selling 'New Modern Guitar Method' DVD
- Recipient of multiple performance competition prizes
