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"While there are many compositions and arrangements in a jazz style available today, creating and adapting your own allows you to suit the work to the educational needs and skill level of your group."
"Improvisation is a musical act which uses a different part of the brain from playing a prepared script from written notes."
"The improviser allows the music to flow directly from the inner ear to the hands and fingers without an intervening thought process. When successful, the results of this connection are holistic - we learn to reproduce all aspects of the inner hearing, the nuance and expression, as well as the correct notes and rhythms."
"This is the connection we all want to develop in our playing." - Stanley Chepaitis
"His music seems to mimic his personality in that he is most instinctive, conscious, and patient while interacting." - Diane Monroe, violinist
"I believe that as we prepare our students for musical life in the 21st Century, Stanley's type of flexibility and diversity of approach is increasingly important." - Paul Kantor, Professor of Violin, University of Michigan School of Music
"I enjoy the dynamic, exciting and electric quality of his playing! He is also a committed educator, long championing the use of jazz for string players." - Bob Phillips, Alfred Publishing-Author/String Clinician
"His teaching is solution driven, the results are fantastic!!" - Benjamin K. Gish Artist Faculty Cellist, Walla Walla College Director of the Walla Walla Suzuki Institute