Marcell Silva Steuernagel

SILVA STEUERNAGEL, Marcell. b. Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 22 February 1979.  Marcell Silva Steuernagel is a Lutheran ethnomusicologist, educator, conductor, guitarist, enlivener of congregational song, and composer. He is an Associate Professor of Church Music and Director of the Master of Sacred Music and Doctor of Pastoral Music Programs at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University*, Dallas, Texas, where he has taught since 2018.  Silva Steuernagel is the oldest of four siblings born to Valdir Raul Steuernagel and Silêda Silva Steuernagel. Both parents were involved in youth and student ministry, and exposed to a wide variety of church music that included the...