Stefan lives in Brattleboro, Vermont with his wife Zara Bode and their two children. He graduated from Oberlin Conservatory as a jazz percussion major. Stefan is percussionist, singer and founding member of the Sweetback Sisters, a “honky tonk band for the modern cowboy and girl”, featuring lead singers Zara Bode and Emily Miller; a founding member and bass singer in Starry Mountain Singers a cappella ensemble (which also includes Zara Bode), and, in 2015, became the percussionist for The Devil Makes Three, the Zara Bode Little Big Band, local rock band Match and honky tonk outfit Atom and the Orbits. In 2022 he started teaching at a couple local schools, took on the post of church choir director and restarted the Brattleboro Music Center Children’s Choir, all of which has brought him back to the music of his youth a with fresh perspective.

Stefan, a gifted singer and singing leader, leads shape note singing at the Old Songs Festival, and has led harmony singing at Oberlin and at the CDSS-sponsored summer camps Pinewoods Family Week and Ogontz Family Week. He has been on several Northern Harmony tours, and was a leader of an Adult Village Harmony singing camp. Although he is best known as a percussionist and singer, he has also known to pick a banjo and scratch a fiddle.

Stefan has been the percussionist of choice for several of America’s favorite contra dance bands, including Assembly (AKA Popcorn Behavior), Magic Foot, Lissa Schneckenburger, and hot new contradance band Top Spin.