Erin L. Stier is in her 13th year teaching choir at West Ottawa Public Schools near the West Michigan lakeshore in Holland, MI. She holds an A.S.A from Northwestern Michigan Community College in her hometown of Traverse City and a B.M.E. from Hope College. Stier is also an active member of MSVMA and has served on the Full Board as a district manager.
Under her direction, West Ottawa choirs regularly receive the highest ratings at MSVMA District and State Festivals and have been selected to perform at All State Festival (2023), the Michigan Music Conference (2014, 2020, 2024), and Michigan Youth Arts Festival (2019); in 2018, her students were also invited to perform on Manhattan Concert Productions’ Treble Choir Concert Series at Carnegie Hall. Since the summer of 2016, Ms. Stier has conducted seven summers of the 4th session Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp SSA Choir and she will conduct the Blue Lake International Choir on their tour in June of 2025.
Ms. Stier considers herself a life-long ‘choir kid’ and recognizes the life changing importance of a foundation of musical excellence. Stier’s foundation was established early on in her life as a 7-year-old singer in the Northwestern Michigan College Children’s Choir. With NMCCC, she toured yearly and performed in MENC & PBS’ “The World’s Largest Concert” in the Spring of 1995. Stier also sang throughout her secondary years in Traverse City Central’s ensembles and performed at ACDA’s National Convention in San Antonio Texas in 2001 with the TC Central Chorale. While earning her undergrad degrees, Stier sang with the TSO and performed masterworks by Beethoven, Brahms, Faure, Handel, Mendelssohn, Rutter, and Vivaldi; she also toured to Florida, New York, and Washington D.C. with the Hope College Chapel Choir. Stier’s dedication to her various choral communities during the past 33 years has sustained her, empowered her, and has been her respite while shaping her into the choral educator that she is today.
In her free time, Ms. Stier sings with the Grand Rapids area ensemble, Choral Connections, and is a gardener, an unserious gamer, and an avid reader and consumer of knowledge. She lives on the westside of Grand Rapids with her wife and their black lab, Eleanor Rigby.
Under her direction, West Ottawa choirs regularly receive the highest ratings at MSVMA District and State Festivals and have been selected to perform at All State Festival (2023), the Michigan Music Conference (2014, 2020, 2024), and Michigan Youth Arts Festival (2019); in 2018, her students were also invited to perform on Manhattan Concert Productions’ Treble Choir Concert Series at Carnegie Hall. Since the summer of 2016, Ms. Stier has conducted seven summers of the 4th session Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp SSA Choir and she will conduct the Blue Lake International Choir on their tour in June of 2025.
Ms. Stier considers herself a life-long ‘choir kid’ and recognizes the life changing importance of a foundation of musical excellence. Stier’s foundation was established early on in her life as a 7-year-old singer in the Northwestern Michigan College Children’s Choir. With NMCCC, she toured yearly and performed in MENC & PBS’ “The World’s Largest Concert” in the Spring of 1995. Stier also sang throughout her secondary years in Traverse City Central’s ensembles and performed at ACDA’s National Convention in San Antonio Texas in 2001 with the TC Central Chorale. While earning her undergrad degrees, Stier sang with the TSO and performed masterworks by Beethoven, Brahms, Faure, Handel, Mendelssohn, Rutter, and Vivaldi; she also toured to Florida, New York, and Washington D.C. with the Hope College Chapel Choir. Stier’s dedication to her various choral communities during the past 33 years has sustained her, empowered her, and has been her respite while shaping her into the choral educator that she is today.
In her free time, Ms. Stier sings with the Grand Rapids area ensemble, Choral Connections, and is a gardener, an unserious gamer, and an avid reader and consumer of knowledge. She lives on the westside of Grand Rapids with her wife and their black lab, Eleanor Rigby.