Anthony Molinaro
Make It MusicAnthony Molinaro is a dedicated music educator, multi-instrumentalist, podcaster, and producer who centers the Dalcroze approach in his teaching philosophy. With more than seventeen years of experience in public school classrooms across the United States, he pioneered the establishment of an authentic Dalcroze classroom at his elementary school in northwestern Pennsylvania.
Anthony holds a master’s degree in music education from Carnegie Mellon University, where he currently serves as guest lecturer and as Eurhythmics instructor for the Preparatory Academy. He is a highly sought-after clinician and has been a featured presenter at many conferences and events, including the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association (PMEA) conference, Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA) conference, district-level professional development workshops, and at American Orff-Schulwerk Association (AOSA) chapter events. His leadership in the field extends to his roles as former board chair and treasurer of the Dalcroze Society of America and as a presenter at multiple national and international conferences, including the International Conference of Dalcroze Studies in 2023, where he conducted the Demonstration Lesson.
In addition to his work in the classroom, Anthony has developed educational content for Music ConstructED and QuaverEd, including a series of Dalcroze-based lessons that are accessible to millions of students. His podcast, The New Dalcrozian, has gained international recognition with listeners in more than forty-eight countries. His SubStack newsletter, MusicXT: Moments and Movement, offers subscribers regular insights into his career and the Dalcroze approach, enriched with instructional videos and other resources designed for public school settings.
Stephen Neely
Make It MusicStephen Neely, PhD, Dalcroze License, is the Carnegie Mellon University Milton and Cynthia Friedman Associate Professor of Music, Director of the Carnegie Mellon Marta Sanchez Dalcroze Training Center, Director of Graduate Studies at Carnegie Mellon School of Music, co-chair of the International Conference of Dalcroze Studies, co-founder and co-host of the Virtual Dalcroze Meet-Up, and past president of the Dalcroze Society of America.
Stephen is a teacher, conductor, theorist, and clinician who lectures in the fields of design, music, architecture, and pedagogy. He is a dynamic speaker, teacher, and writer who enjoys presenting hands-on workshops and clinics in the U.S. and abroad that focus on the overlaps between music, design, the body, esthetics, performance, and experience.
He teaches all the Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Dalcroze Pedagogy courses for the Carnegie Mellon School of Music, having taught every BFA music performance and composition major there since 1999, and he is Dalcroze Eurhythmics faculty at the Houston Grand Opera Butler Studio emerging artists program. He taught Dalcroze Eurhythmics and directed the Opera Workshop at the High School for the Creative and Performing Arts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for twenty-three years (1994 to 2018) and served as Chorusmaster for Opera Theater of Pittsburgh from 1999 to 2010. He was also a featured soloist in Leonardo Balada’s early operas Hangman, Hangman! and the world premiere of The Town of Greed for the Naxos label, and was an invited speaker at TEDxCMU 2012.
