Stephen Neely, PhD, Dalcroze License, is the Carnegie Mellon University Milton and Cynthia Friedman Associate Professor of Music, Director of the Carnegie Mellon Marta Sanchez Dalcroze Training Center, Director of Graduate Studies at Carnegie Mellon School of Music, co-chair of the International Conference of Dalcroze Studies, co-founder and co-host of the Virtual Dalcroze Meet-Up, and past president of the Dalcroze Society of America.

Stephen is a teacher, conductor, theorist, and clinician who lectures in the fields of design, music, architecture, and pedagogy. He is a dynamic speaker, teacher, and writer who enjoys presenting hands-on workshops and clinics in the U.S. and abroad that focus on the overlaps between music, design, the body, esthetics, performance, and experience. He teaches all the Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Dalcroze Pedagogy courses for the Carnegie Mellon School of Music, having taught every BFA music performance and composition major there since 1999, and he is Dalcroze Eurhythmics faculty at the Houston Grand Opera Butler Studio emerging artists program. He taught Dalcroze Eurhythmics and directed the Opera Workshop at the High School for the Creative and Performing Arts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for twenty-three years (1994 to 2018) and served as Chorusmaster for Opera Theater of Pittsburgh from 1999 to 2010. He was also a featured soloist in Leonardo Balada’s early operas Hangman, Hangman! and the world premiere of The Town of Greed for the Naxos label, and was an invited speaker at TEDxCMU 2012.