New Hire: Stephen Allen

Dr. Stephen Allen has accepted the position of Adjunct Professor of Euphonium and Musical Director of the Montclair State University Brass Band at Montclair State University. His duties there will include teaching the euphonium studio and developing the new brass band course which is part of the Montclair curriculum. In addition, he will continue serving as a Full Professor of Music at Rider University as a musicologist. Dr. Allen won national awards on the euphonium in the UK during his youth. He studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire and Oxford University and is considered a world authority on Benjamin Britten and brass bands. He founded the national award-winning Princeton Brass Band and is Musical Director of the Lancaster British Brass Band. He was Professor of Euphonium at Rutgers University from 2007 until he accepted this new position at Montclair. He is currently a two-term president of the North American Brass Band Association.