Dr. Stephen Neely

Milton and Cynthia Friedman Associate Professor of Music
Director of Graduate Studies
Director of the Marta Sanchez Dalcroze Training Center

Bio

Stephen Neely, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University Milton and Cynthia Friedman Associate Professor of Music, Director of Graduate Studies, and Director of the Carnegie Mellon Marta Sanchez Dalcroze Training Center. He is a teacher, conductor, theorist, writer, and clinician who lectures and presents workshops around the globe in the fields of design, music, architecture, and pedagogy. He holds the Dalcroze License and is a past President of the Dalcroze Society of America. 

He teaches Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Dalcroze Pedagogy for the School of Music, having taught every BFA in Music Performance and Composition at CMU since 1999. 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), served as Chorusmaster for Opera Theater of Pittsburgh from 1999–2010, was a featured soloist 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.  

In addition to his duties in the School of Music, Dr. Neely is Eurhythmics faculty for the Houston Grand Opera Butler Studio Artists, Co-Chair of the International Conference of Dalcroze Studies, and co-founder and co-host of the Virtual Dalcroze Meet-up. 

His first book, Make it Music — Dalcroze Strategies for Every Classroom, is an invaluable resource for classroom teachers interested in including more movement activities in their practice, and his second book, Somaesthetic Design: The Experiencing Body and the Dynamics of Time, explores “the relation of time + body in experience and service design.”

"My research focuses on the physical nature of experience and the reflections of musical gestures 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.”

Stephen Neely — Orchid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8830-038X

Education

PhD in Design, 2019
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Design
Thesis: Soma Literate Design–recentering the interstiality of experience.

Dalcroze License, 2006
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Music

Master of Music in Music Education, 1997
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Music

Dalcroze Eurhythmics Certificate, 1995
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Music

Bachelor of Fine Arts in Vocal Performance, 1993
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Music

Pennsylvania State Teachers Certification, K – 12, 1993
Permanent Certification, 2000
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Music