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Stephen Meyer (Flagstaff, AZ) is currently the Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music at Northern Arizona University. He is also the music director for The Tempe Winds and on the conducting staff for the Phoenix Youth Symphony Orchestras. While at NAU, the Wind Symphony has been twice invited to perform at the College Band Directors National Association Regional Conference, and the Lumberjack Marching Band will perform at the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Meyer previously served on the faculties of the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam and the University of South Carolina. During his tenure as Director of Bands at Clear Creek High School, the Clear Creek Wind Ensemble was a featured performer at The Midwest Clinic (2013), a three-time National Winner in the National Wind Band Honors project, and a two-time national finalist for The American Prize in Wind Ensemble Performance. Before Clear Creek, Meyer taught at Harrison High School in Cobb County, Georgia, where he assisted with performances at The Midwest Clinic (2007), the Georgia Music Educators Association, and the University of Georgia. With Meyer as co-director of the marching band, the ensemble was a consistent Bands of America Regional and Super Regional Finalist, a BOA Grand National Finalist in 2007, and invited to perform at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2009.
Meyer graduated magna cum laude from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music with a bachelor’s degree in music education. He earned a master’s degree in music education and a doctorate in wind band conducting from the University of Michigan. Meyer is the author of Rehearsing the High School Band, volumes 1 and 2, Rehearsing the Middle School Band, and Rehearsing the Marching Band.