Stas Omelchenko is a versatile composer and arranger of concert, chamber and electronic music, whose music has been performed in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. He currently teaches graduate and undergraduate theory, composition/arranging and aural skills classes at the JMU School of Music and previously taught at Laurier Academy of Music and Arts at Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada), Floridan Southern College and the University of Tampa. In 2018 he also served as artist-in-residence at the University of Aveiro (Portugal) where he mentored composition students. Some of his music can be heard on the 2021 New Music for Brass Quintet album by the University of Kentucky Faculty Brass Quintet as well as on Decommissioned: Solo Violin in Cold War Relics, a 2021 album by Wyoming Symphony concertmaster Megan Karls. In 2021 his mixed choir work Amen was a finalist for the American Prize in Music and his contemplative, electronic meditation work On the Nature of Time was released online in 2022. Dr. Omelchenko holds a PhD and MA degrees in music composition from the University of Iowa, and a BM degree in composition from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.