Dr. Brian Stackhouse was appointed OBU's first Director of Athletic Bands in Feb. 2021. He previously served as the Percussion Studio and Drumline Instructor for Southern Nazarene University.
Stackhouse received his Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Arkansas Tech University, his Master of Music in Percussion Performance from the University of Arkansas, and his Doctorate in Percussion Performance from The University of Oklahoma. He is active in the field of competitive marching arts as the Educational Coordinator and a music tech for Resistance Indoor Percussion, Oklahoma’s only independent WGI percussion ensemble. He also serves as an Educational Marching Artist for the Vic Firth and Zildjian companies and proudly endorses their products.
Stackhouse conducts clinics and master classes at various institutions from high schools to universities. He has composed many marching percussion books beginning with his time at Arkansas Tech and including various high schools as well as the University of Oklahoma, and instructed drumlines at all three institutions he attended. He has been an active instructor at Arkansas Tech and University of Arkansas Summer Band Camps and adjudicator at various competitions. During his time at the University of Oklahoma, he managed the OU Percussion Press and conducted an in-depth study of Jacques Delécluse’s Douze Études pour Caisse-Claire.
Prior to his arrival on Bison Hill, Stackhouse served as the Percussion Studio and Drumline Instructor for Southern Nazarene University where he composed and arranged percussion music, directed the percussion ensemble and drumline, instructed private lessons to majors and nonmajors, and taught the percussion methods and drum set methods class.
He has performed with drum corps, marching bands, orchestras, jazz combos, stage bands, percussion orchestras, and church worship teams as both a member and guest musician, and soloed at different events including the National Conference of Percussion Pedagogy, where he has served as the head of logistics and been a member of the management team. During his time in the University of Oklahoma Percussion Orchestra, the group premiered new pieces and was featured multiple times on Vic Firth. His passion is the marching arts and he got his introduction to Drum Corps International as a snare drummer for Memphis Sound in 2004 and 2005. He was also a member of the DCI Honor Corps in 2005, which performed at Disney World.
Brian married his wife, OBU alum Nicole Stackhouse, in 2013 in Raley Chapel. Nicole completed her undergraduate degree in Piano Performance at OBU in 2011 and later earned her master’s degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from OU. She is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music in Piano and is currently the Director of Piano at Classen School of Advanced Studies Middle School in Oklahoma City. Together they have two rescue cats named Ollie and Molly.
