A. in Jazz Trumpet Performance from Queens College, the City University ofNew York, Stacey studied with Prof. Michael Mossman, the lead jazz trumpeter at Jazz at Lincoln Center Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra, Prof. Antonio Hart, the lead alto-saxophonist of Dizzy Gillepie All Star Big Band, and Dr. John Van Deurson,Assistant Conductor and trombonist of Taipei Philharmonic.
Active in band performance and recording in New York. Stacey is currently an avid jazz musician in Taiwan, the director of arts center and assistant professor of National Dong Hwa University, in the first Jazz Studies of Taiwan, and teacher at several schools promoting jazz music, the director of National Concert Hall and Theatre Summer Jazz Camp since 2008, the endorsor of Yamaha trumpet.
Stacey has played with Michael Mossman, Antonio Hart, Alex Sipiagin, Brian Lynch, Harold Danko, Eric Miyashiro, Paquito D’Rivera, Jimmy Cobb, Tootie Heath, John Riley, Cliff Almond, Tomonao Hara.
