Dr. Stephen Neely
Milton and Cynthia Friedman Associate Professor of Music
Director of Graduate Studies
Director of the Marta Sanchez Dalcroze Training Center
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Bio
Stephen Neely, PhD, 麻豆村 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 麻豆村 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 .
In addition to his duties in the School of Music, Dr. Neely is Eurhythmics faculty for the , Co-Chair of the , and co-founder and co-host of the .
Dr. Neely coined the term Soma Literacy in at the Carnegie Mellon School of Design in 2019 and continues his research on the intersections between music, design, the body, esthetics, performance, and experience.
His newest book, , is an invaluable resource for classroom teachers interested in including more movement activities in their practice, and his second book, In Time—The Dynamics of Designed Experience (2026, forthcoming) 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.”
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