Stephanie Erspamer (she/her) teaches ukulele and early childhood music classes, including Musical Foundations and Vocal Village at Michigan State University’s Community Music School-Detroit. She also teaches off site early childhood music classes around the metro Detroit area. Before expanding her work at CMS-D, Stephanie was the elementary music teacher at Auburn Elementary School in the Avondale School District. She attended Michigan State University where she earned a Bachelor of Music in Music Education and studied the trumpet as her primary instrument. For five summers Stephanie taught trumpet lessons, music theory classes, and ensembles at various music camps in Haiti, in partnership with BLUME Haiti. She continues to pursue a love of brass music by playing the tenor horn in the award-winning Five Lakes Silver Band.