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August 2004 - September 2005 Mr. Steve Stenzel
Steve's music studies began first on piano and then on horn. While attending the Vienna International School in Vienna, Austria he performed as horn soloist with a semi-professional chamber ensemble. In 1985 he returned to the United States to attend the Conservatory of Music at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. While at Wheaton College, Steven conducted performances of the "King and I"; he was teaching assistant in the Theory Department for three years and studied piano with William Phemister. He graduated in 1989 with a degree in music education and returned to Europe later that year as a guest instructor (piano and conducting) at Bibelschule Bergstrasse, a Bible school in southern Germany. Completing that, Steven returned to the Chicago area to pursue further music studies. Steven earned his Master's MMEd at Northwestern University while teaching middle school band in Lake Zurich, Illinois. He was also conductor of the Fox Valley Youth Symphony for three seasons and led them on to three European tours. He studied Conducting under Paul Wiens, John Paynter and Donald Owens. In addition to his public school position, Steven teaches piano and theory privately and freelances on piano and horn. He has been involved with numerous musicals at the Prairie Center for the Arts in Schaumburg, Illinois. He currently lives in a northwest Chicago suburb with his wife, also a graduate of Wheaton College, two daughters and a son.
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