Marcell Steuernagel
Associate Professor of Church Music
Director of the Master of Sacred Music Program
Director of the Doctor of Pastoral Music Program
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Education
Ph.D. in Church Music: Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA
Master of Music: Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Bachelor of Music: Parana School of Music and Arts (EMBAP), Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Teaching Specialties
Dr. Silva Steuernagel's teaching ranges from musical composition (with an emphasis on liturgical composition), through church music studies, and into performance studies and anthropology. Most of the courses he teaches involve an interdisciplinary mix of musicology, theology, and the humanities.
Selected Publications
:: Church Music Through the Lens of Performance (Routledge, 2021).
:: The Other Lutherans: Voices from the Global South (Fortress Academic, 2026).
:: "Performance" in The Oxford Handbook of Music and Christian Theology (Oxford University Press, 2026).
:: "From 'Amazing Grace' to 'Preciosa Graça': Transnational Echoes of a Protestant Hymn" in Amazing Grace at 2150 (Routledge, 2025).
About
Marcell Silva Steuernagel, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Church Music and Director of the Master of Sacred Music and Doctor of Pastoral Music Programs at ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú’s Perkins School of Theology. He also serves as the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology’s Regional Editor for Latin American & the Caribbean, and lead co-editor of the Journal of Praise and Worship. Marcell writes at the intersection of church music, theology, musicology, and performance theory. He served as Minister of Worship, Arts and Communication at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Curitiba, Brazil, for more than a decade, and is an internationally active composer and performer. His most recent monograph is Church Music Through the Lens of Performance (2021), published on Routledge’s Congregational Music Studies series.