Stephen Seifert's teaching and playing has made him a favorite with dulcimer players all over the country since 1991. In that time, he's been a featured performer at hundreds of dulcimer festivals and other music events including Kentucky Music Week in Bardstown, KY, Mountain Dulcimer Week in Cullowhee, NC, Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, WV, The Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, AR, Stringalong near Milwaukee, WI, The Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS and The Tono American Music Festival, in Tono, Japan.

Stephen has been a dulcimer soloist with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra since 1996 and is featured on their Warner Classical recording of Connie Ellisor and David Schnaufer's Blackberry Winter, a concerto for mountain dulcimer and string orchestra. The piece continues to be in regular rotation on many classical stations around the U.S. Stephen most recently performed this piece with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra.

He was Adjunct Instructor of Mountain Dulcimer with David Schnaufer at Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music from 1997 to 2001. He also taught, performed, and recorded with Mr. Schnaufer as a duo throughout the country.

Besides festivals and workshops, Stephen keeps busy with his mountain dulcimer video instructional series. Hundreds of students around the world have subscribed. Each student periodically receives a lesson which includes a 50 page book, an hour long DVD, and a practice audio CD.

Stephen has released over 15 instructional DVDs, 12 book/CD combos, and 4 CDs. To learn more, please visit http://stephenseifert.com/ and http://myspace.com/stephenseif ert/.