After 36 years teaching, formally, in Higher Education, Frank Stemper retired and relocated to his home town. - Milwaukee Wisconsin.  He and his wife currently live in Fox Point, Wisconsin and are enjoying the doings of their five children and their kids - our grandchildren.  Now this is FUN!
Although he meant to retire, Stemper continues to compose for various media - currently, practically everything is for strings — instruments that can replicate the drama of the human voice, with the piano not too far from the center of it all.

Teaching is a thing of the past, yet through the John Downey Creations Project of the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra https://myso.org/ — he continues to push the art form into the future.

EDUCATION and TEACHING EXPERIENCE 
BMus 1975 — University of British Columbia — Vancouver, Canada
piano with Robert Silverman

MA 1978 — Music Theory and Composition — State University of New York at Stony Brook
Composition with David Lewin
Awards:
     Masters Student Teaching Assistantship, 2 years
     2 Summer Research Fellowships

PhD 1981 — Music Theory and Composition — University of California at Berkeley
Composition with Andrew Imbrie
Awards:
     Alfred Hertz Fellowship
     Teaching Associate, 3 years
     Recording Engineer and caretaker of the Berkeley Electro-Acoustic Music Studio (EMS), 1979-81
     George Ladd Prix de Paris, 1981-1983:
                Post-Doc — Paris, 1981 - 1983
                        A two year residency in Paris, France, under support of the George Ladd Prix de Paris. 
                        Study in Music Theory with Betsy Jolas at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Music;
                        Computer music studies at Pierre Boulez's L’Institute de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (I.R.C.A.M.)
                        Independent work in composition; World Premiere of VIOLIN CONCERTO (1979) by the Utrecht Conservatorium                                                                                                                                                            Orchest - Melvin Margolis, Music Director


TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1983 – 2014
Professor of Music & Composer in Residence
—Director of Graduate Studies in Music
Southern Illinois University Carbondale

•Composition – High School through graduate levels
    •Music Theory – diatonic and chromatic tonal thru advance graduate levels
        •Modern and Serial Harmony
           •Aural Skills and Sight Singing
                •Orchestration
                    •ElectroAcoustic and Computer Music
                        •History of Modern Music
                            •Avant Garde Piano
                                •Specialized Performance Practices of Modern Music — for all instruments