Stephen Story earned his master’s degree in conducting from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009. While at CMU he studied wind music with Denis Colwell, vocal music with Robert Page, and composition with Nancy Galbraith. His musical focus is modern wind music, with a heavy emphasis on American composers. Before graduate school he taught music in public schools in both North Carolina and Pittsburgh. He also has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in bassoon performance from CMU, where he studied with Phil Pandolfi of the Pittsburgh Symphony. He is currently the Associate Director of the Wind Ensemble at Carnegie Mellon.