Composer, conductor, and performer Roger Stubblefield has had compositions performed by members of the New Jersey Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Michigan Opera Theatre, and the State Orchestra of

Merida in Venezuela. In 2022 Stubblefield was one of the featured composers on the Winter Festival series at the prestigious BargeMusic. He was also the featured composer on several other music series in the tri-state area this past year, including New Jersey Wind Symphony, New Jersey’s Orpheus Club Men’s Chorus, and Kean University’s Ars Vitalis Music Series. Stubblefield’s Concerto for Viola and Orchestra was premiered in 2011 with the State Orchestra of Merida, in Venezuela under the direction of Maestro César Lván Lara. In the same year Stubblefield’s Divertissement for Cello and Piano was debuted at Lincoln Center in New York City by cellist Louise Dubin and pianist Reiko Uchida. Stubblefield has also been nominated for the 2015, 2014 and 2020 music award in composition by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

 

Stubblefield has conducted many regional orchestras in Michigan and served as assistant Music Director of the Immaculate Symphony in Pennsylvania and director of the Imbrassadors brass ensemble. Most recently he was assigned to conduct the educational and family concerts for the Plainfield Symphony Orchestra of New Jersey. 

 

As a tubist, Stubblefield has formed with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Michigan Opera Theatre, the New Jersey Symphony, the Delaware Symphony, and the Lancaster Symphony, as well as with the Plainfield Symphony Orchestra, among other professional ensembles in the New York metropolitan area.