Joe Stegman

Hello there! I am soon to graduate from Miami University with a degree in music education.

Music has a unique power to connect us all. As an educator it is my goal to ensure all students in my classroom feel welcome, and connected to each other, themselves, or the world around them.

Music allows for collaboration like no other. Even those still working towards higher levels of musicianship can still create and appreciate incredible music with others.

Music has always been an essential part of my life. As a child my parents would play songs from Dog Train by Sandra Boynton. As I grew older I would hear piano from my mother’s piano lesson studio, and I would hear my parents play in their cover band. I would even be my boy scout troop's bugler for a few years. I would go on to join band in middle school, and only then would I realize it’s true magic.

On a band trip to Indianapolis, I was first truly moved by a piece. there are no words by Jim Stephenson made me cry in that theater, and I have since recognized music’s true potential to communicate emotion. Whether it be jubilance, despair, wrath, serenity, or anything else, music can make you feel it, and connect with it.

Since that concert, I have strived for my music to be so moving, so sincere that it expresses the emotions I hope to express. This drive to create music in the best way possible is a sense I hope to instill in my students, so that they too can experience all the magic music has to offer.

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Picture from NAfME Hill Day / Collegiate Leadership Advocacy Summit, where I met with state representatives to advocate for the place of music in schools.