Stephen Pixley, Executive Director, and Voice Faculty Steve joined the New School of Music in May of 2006 as Executive Director, and voice instructor, after serving for  six years as General Manager and faculty member at Brookline Music School. He has held previous administrative positions with Handel & Haydn Society and New England Conservatory, and serves on the Westford Cultural Council. His teaching background includes college level musicology, theory and ethnomusicology, middle school general music, and English as a Foreign Language. As a voice teacher at NSM, Steve teaches art song, opera, musical theater, klezmer, and contemporary vocal styles, and is a specialist in helping students to overcome "tone deafness." BA in Asian Studies, Vassar College; MM in Musicology, New England Conservatory; MA in Ethnomusicology, Wesleyan University. PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology, Wesleyan University. Classical voice studies with Carol Haber, Blanche Foreman, Jean Danton and others. South Indian Karnatic voice and percussion studies with Tanjore Viswanathan and Ramnad Raghavan, and Japanese koto studies with Masayo Ishigure. Extended classical music studies in Germany and dissertation ethnomusicology fieldwork in Northern Thailand. Solo appearances: Jordan Hall, Trinity Church, Tsai Performing Arts Center, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Former faculty, Wesleyan University, The Country Day School (Connecticut), the New York State Summer School for the Arts, and Brookline Music School. Recent solo appearances with ALEA III Contemporary Music Ensemble and the Boston Repertory Orchestra, as well as frequent concerts at senior centers throughout the area as leader of the ad hoc faculty Klezmer band "Not So Glat."