Stephen Michael Newby

Director, Gospel Choir

A composer and publisher of many musical styles and traditions, Stephen Newby is associate professor of music, director of the Gospel Choir, and director of University Ministries and The Center for Worship at Seattle Pacific University. He also serves as worship leader for Promise Keepers and Integrity Music.

Newby’s compositions have earned him numerous awards and grants, including the National Endowment of the Arts 2005 St. Paul, Minnesota, Continental Harmony Grant; the King County Arts Commission of Washington Grant; The Rackham School Fellowship for Ethnomusicological Research in Dakar, Senegal; and, for his gospel/jazz oratorio “Be Still and Know,” the John Wesley Work III National Composers’ Award.

Newby earned his doctorate in musical arts in composition from the University of Michigan in 1994.