Stephen Posegate, MEd

Stephen Posegate is assistant professor of Music and Conductor of the Symphonic Band at Trinity College. He is eminently qualified to mentor future music teachers at Trinity.

After graduating from Wheaton College in 1976 (BME), he taught music for more than twenty years in Denali, Nenana, and Anchorage, Alaska, where he also founded and conducted the Anchorage Civic Orchestra, taught music education at the University of Alaska/Anchorage, and completed an MEd degree in Public School Administration. He earned an MM degree in Music Composition from Indiana University in 2000, and came to Trinity after being a Graduate Teaching Fellow (supervising student music teachers) at The University of Oregon School of Music, where he is completing doctoral studies (DMA) in Music Education with Wind Ensemble Conducting as a secondary area.

Professor Posegate has also been active in church music throughout his career—often as Director of Music. He and his wife Cathy (a social work administrator) hosted a small group for their church (Cascade Presbyterian Church [PCA] in Eugene, Oregon) focusing on parenting teenagers. Professor Posegate and his wife, Cathy, have three teenaged children: Elizabeth, Rebekah, and Thomas.