Maya Stone is an advocate of interdisciplinary art, and one of the founding members of Cooperandi; a group organized with the composer Spencer Lambright that focuses on varied artistic collaboration with contemporary musical ideas. As a champion of contemporary music, she has recently commissioned and premiered several works. Most recently she has been involved in a commissioning project of a concert length bassoon work, which is being written by Michael Gordon (Bang On a Can).

As a performer, Stone stays busy giving recital performances around the country. She performs at the International Double Reed Society Convention, as well as in orchestras and as a soloist around the United States, in Europe and South America. Stone holds the second bassoon position in the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra and can be heard on Rocky Streams, Paul Osterfield’s album with Albany Records.

At Bowling Green State University, Dr. Stone mentors an active studio where the students choose to focus on majors such as performance, music education, composition and others. Minors and non-majors are also involved and active in the studio. While each student has a bassoon curriculum designed for their course of study, desires and goals, the student is strongly focused toward being, and functioning in the world as a musician first, and then as a bassoonist. In addition to her work at BGSU, Dr. Stone takes immense pleasure in giving frequent guest master classes at both the university and high school level around the country. Stone is also on the board of the Meg Quigley Symposium and Competition for bassoonists.

Dr. Stone holds a D.M.A. in bassoon performance from the University of Texas at Austin, a M.M. in bassoon performance and woodwind specialty from Michigan State University, and a B.M. in music education from the SUNY Potsdam Crane School of Music. Her teachers and mentors include Kristin Wolfe Jensen, Barrick Stees, Frank Wangler and Michael Kroth.