Dr. Caroline Steiger

Caroline Steiger was appointed as Director of Brass and Associate Professor of Horn at George Mason University effective August 2024. Caroline Steiger is an active teacher, clinician, and performer. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan (DMA, BM Music Performance with Teacher Certification) and Penn State University (MM Music Performance).

Dr. Steiger has held positions at Texas State University (Associate Professor of Music and Artist/Teacher of Horn, 2016-2024), SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music (Visiting Assistant Professor of Horn, 2014), Penn State University (Teacher Assistant), and the University of Michigan (Graduate Student Assistant). While at Texas State, Dr. Steiger led the TXST Horn Ensemble in performances at regional and international conferences, as well as regular recitals on campus.

Dr. Steiger’s work as a musician has included performances with the San Antonio Philharmonic, Mid-Texas Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Toledo Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra during its 2015 US tour.

Committed to chamber music, Dr. Steiger has played with the Potsdam Brass Quintet, faculty quintet-in-residence at SUNY Potsdam, the Emblems Woodwind Quintet, an Ann Arbor-based quintet focused on performing new and underrepresented works, and is a founding member of the Cobalt Quartet (Winner, 2018 International Horn Society Quartet Competition-Professional Division; Featured Artists, 2023 Mid South Horn Workshop). She also performs frequently with her husband, trombonist Michael Steiger (US Navy Band). Together, they have commissioned and premiered several new works for Horn and Trombone. Dr. Steiger presents and performs frequently at conferences including Texas Music Educators Association, International Horn Society, and International Women’s Brass Conferences.

Dr. Steiger’s main teachers include Adam Unsworth, Bryan Kennedy, Lisa Bontrager, Sören Hermansson, and Corbin Wagner.

Term Associate Professor of Music 

• Director of Brass

• Horn, Brass Chamber Music, Brass Pedagogy and Literature

DMA, University of Michigan

MM, Penn State University 

BM, University of Michigan