Live Music With Steven and Chris

Stephen Stuntz is a husband, father, musician, skier, mountain biker and full time educator working in Woodstock, VT schools. Stephen has worked full time as a professional musician and educator in Seattle, Los Angeles, Shanghai, and Taipei and has studied music at Los Angeles’ Musician’s Institute, Naropa University, and the University of Washington.

Favorite gigs include New Year’s Eve at the Shanghai Hilton and at the top of Seattle’s Space Needle, a weekly gig at Seattle’s “Bait Shop,” (live jazz and live bait!), playing in the “pit” for numerous musical theater productions and headlining at the Tunbridge World’s Fair.

He currently plays freelance jazz and blues guitar in various small groups.

Chris Billiau is an accomplished solo and accompanying jazz guitarist living in Thetford, VT. Chris regularly performs with many local acts and artists including Grace Wallace and Jakob Breitbach. Besides his current work, he has also performed with big bands such as the George Manstan Big Band and String of Pearls in Connecticut as well as The Moonlighters in Vermont.

Chris is comfortable playing jazz guitar styles dating back through bebop, swing, and the jazz age. Hailing from the Chicago area, Chris studied guitar under Fareed Haque at Columbia College and jazz composition with Eddie Baker at Roosevelt University. Chris currently studies under Draa Hobbs.