Stephen Neely
Director of Graduate Studies at Carnegie Mellon University School of Musi
- Role
- Eurhythmics Faculty, Butler Studio Artists at Houston Grand Opera
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Stephen Neely
Stephen Neely, PhD, is a dynamic speaker and teacher who enjoys traveling to present hands-on workshops and clinics in the US and around the globe focusing on the overlaps between music, design, the body, esthetics, performance, and experience. Carnegie Mellon Assistant Professor of Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Dalcroze License, and past President of the Dalcroze Society of America, Stephen is a conductor, teacher, singer, and clinician who teaches, lectures, and presents workshops in the fields of music, design, architecture, and pedagogy. He is the Director of the Carnegie Mellon Marta Sanchez Dalcroze Training Center and Director of the Pre-College programs at Carnegie Mellon School of Music. He teaches Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Dalcroze Pedagogy for the Carnegie Mellon School of Music and has taught every BFA in Music Performance and Composition at CMU since He taught Dalcroze Eurhythmics and directed the Opera Workshop at Pittsburgh\'s High School for the Creative and Performing Arts for 23 years (1994–2018) and served as Chorusmaster for Opera Theater of Pittsburgh from was featured as the Hangman in Leonardo Balada’s early operas Hangman, Hangman and the world premiere of The Town of Greed for the Naxos label, and was a featured speaker at TEDxCMU 2012. https://youtu.be/44p5GHpef4IHe completed the PhD in Design at the Carnegie Mellon School of Design in 2019. Dissertation title: in Soma Literate Design–recentering the interstiality of \"My research focuses on the physical nature of experience and the reflections of the artful gesture in everyday interactions—that is, the ways in which our feeling bodies are necessary components of musical participation and how that understanding presents artful potential in any experience.”
Experience
Eurhythmics Faculty, Butler Studio Artists
Sep 2024 — Present · Houston, TX, US
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA
1989 — 1993
Carnegie Mellon University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
2014 — 2019
Carnegie Mellon University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
2014 — 2019
Carnegie Mellon University
Masters of Music
1995 — 1997
Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Fine Arts
1989 — 1993
Carnegie Mellon University
Master of Music
1995 — 1997
Skills
- Coaching
- Choral
- Pianist
- Vocal
- Event Planning
- Music Education
- Stage
- Chamber Music
- Performing Arts
- Arts
- Arts Administration
- Pedagogy
- Nonprofits
- Theatre
- Ensemble
- Teaching
- Music
- Music Theory
- Improvisation
- Higher Education
- Musical Theatre
- Opera
- Curriculum Design
- Orchestral Music
- Conducting
- Piano
- Singing
- Public Speaking
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