Stacy Maugans

Biography

Dr. Stacy Maugans, Professor of Music, teaches in the areas of saxophone, music
theory, musicianship, performance pedagogy, and humanities at Valparaiso
University, where she has received the Excellence in Teaching Award. She is also
on the faculty of the Lutheran Summer Music Academy and Festival, a four-week
residential music camp for high school musicians. An active recitalist, adjudicator
and lecturer on the history of saxophone in Russia and the former Soviet Union,
Dr. Maugans has received grants from the United States Department of Education
and Social Science Research Council for studies in Russian. She has performed
and taught throughout the United States, including a solo in Carnegie Hall in Stern
Auditorium on the Perelman Stage, and internationally in Russia, Tanzania, China,
Malta, Croatia, Germany, France, Slovenia, and Thailand, with a number of encore
engagements after initial international appearances. The Indiana Arts Commission
awarded her an Arts Project Support grant. Her performances have included
commissions and premieres of works by Jillian Whitaker, Anne Krentz Organ,
Benjamin Krause, David DeBoor Canfield, James Barry, Shih-Hui Chen, Karen
Olsen, Deborah J. Monroe, Kirk O’Riordan, Michael Boo, and Marjorie M.
Rusche.

In addition to performing and teaching, Dr. Maugans has served the North
American Saxophone Alliance in past terms as Treasurer and as Editor of the peer-
reviewed journal The Saxophone Symposium. Her 10 years of administrative
experience include serving as Chair of the Department of Music and as Assistant
Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Valparaiso University. She is a
member of College Music Society, Pi Kappa Lambda, and Phi Beta Kappa, for
which she is the Historian for the local chapter. She earned the Doctor of Music in
Saxophone Literature and Performance at Indiana University under the guidance of
Dr. Eugene Rousseau and the Master of Music at Arizona State University with Dr.
Joseph Wytko. Her undergraduate degrees of Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of
Arts in Mathematics are from Indiana University. Her hobbies include hiking,
reading, and volunteering with her Scottish Collie, Calum, as a registered Pet
Partner Team.