Marcell Silva Steuernagel
Assistant Professor of Church Music
Director of the Master of Sacred Music Program
Director of the Doctor of Pastoral Music Program

214.768.2348
marcells@smu.edu
Education
Ph.D. in Church Music (ABD) & Graduate assistant 2015 - 2018 Dissertation: Church Music Through the Lens of Performance: The Embodied Ritual of Sacred Play Ph.D. degree in Church Music Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA Master of Music - Composition 2006 - 2008 Thesis; Musical Gesture through Ma: An Alternative Approach to Form in Musical Composition (2008) Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Curitiba, PR, Brazil Bachelor of Music - Conducting and Composition 1998 - 2003 Parana School of Music and Arts (EMBAP), Curitiba, PR, Brazil Brazilian Guitar & Jazz Improvisation 1999 - 2002 Conservatory of Brazilian Music, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Teaching Specialties
Selected Publications
:: "The Musical Thought of Luther in Time and Space: Performative Negotiations of the Lutheran Tradition of Congregational Music in the Twenty-first Century." In O Som da Reforma, Joezer Mendonça, ed. Curitiba: CRV, Brazil, 2017.
:: "Composition in Context: Musical 2019 Creation and Congregational-Liturgical Function" and "Past in Present: Rekindling Hymnodic Legacy in the ECLCB." In Companion to the New Lutheran Hymnal (working title), Werner Ewald, ed. Sao Leopoldo: Editora Sinodal, RS, Brazil, 2018. (Forthcoming)
Professional Distinctions
Hymn Society • Member 2019
Performance Studies International • Member 2017
Society for Christian Scholarship in Music • Member 2017
Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) • Member 2017
Society for Ethnomusicology • Member 2017
Student Research Scholarship • Christian Congregational Music Conference Award 2017
Baylor Libraries Summer Teaching Fellowship 2017
Baylor Conyers Scholar 2016 - 2017
Gerald and Kathy Dunlap Endowed Internship 2016
Crouch Music and Fine Arts Library • Baylor University, TX