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

Currently, Stecker also holds the position of college organist & carillonneur/adjunct professor of music at Westminster College, teaching courses which have included organ, carillon, and music theory. He has formerly held positions as carillon fellow at Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales, Florida; as director of chapel music at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina; and as chapel musician at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Stecker additionally conducts the 50-voice Washington (PA) Festival Chorale.

Stecker is active as a composer, and his works have been premiered throughout the United States and Europe. When not at a keyboard or podium, Stecker 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.