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Mitchell Stecker (b.1992) serves in a full-time capacity as Director of
Music and Liturgy at Mt. Lebanon United Methodist Church in the South Hills of Pittsburgh. He is an alumnus of the University of Florida, holding the degrees of, BMus, BA (Linguistics), and MMus (historical musicology with a concentration in sacred music). Additionally, Mitchell has pursued studies at the Royal Carillon School “Jef Denyn” (Mechelen, Belgium).

Currently, Mitchell also holds the position of College Organist & Carillonneur/Adjunct Professor of Music at Westminster College (New Wilmington, PA) He has formerly held positions as organist and
choirmaster of St Mark’s Church (Episcopal) in Palatka, FL, as Carillon
Fellow at Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales, FL, and as Director of
Chapel Music at the Citadel in Charleston, SC. 

Mitchell is also active as a composer, and his works have been premiered throughout the United States and Europe; in December 2019, he published a collection of the entire biblical Psalter set to music from the shape note tradition, in a work entitled The Psalmist’s Harp. 

When not at the podium or keyboard, Mitchell can be found singing
shape-note music, collecting American reed organs, 3D printing, or
working with his wife Sarah on house projects in their 100-year old home in Washington.