Phil Hesterman, candidate for NC-ACDA President-elect

Phillip Hesterman served twelve years as the music teacher at Trinity Lutheran School in Grand Island, Nebraska, where he taught general, vocal, and instrumental music. While in Grand Island, he also served as an assistant director of vocal music at Northwest High School for three years. 

Dr. Hesterman has taught at Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska, as an adjunct instructor in music education and organ and served as assistant director of the South Central Nebraska Children’s Choir. Hesterman previously taught in Janesville and Chaska, Minnesota; Sheboygan, Wisconsin; and Austin and Bastrop, Texas. He served as a church musician in each state as well, directing church choirs and serving as organist. He was awarded the Larry Maupin Education Award from the Grand Island, Nebraska, Moonshell Arts and Humanities Council in 2009. 

Dr. Hesterman earned his undergraduate degree at Concordia University–Seward, Nebraska. As a life-long learner, he received a Master of Arts degree in church music from Concordia University–River Forest, Illinois, and a Master of Arts in teaching from Hastings College–Hastings, Nebraska. He was the first recipient of the PhD in Music, with an emphasis in music education, from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. 

Phillip Hesterman has served the Nebraska Choral Directors Association as exhibits chair, children's choir chair, president-elect, president, and is currently past-president of that organization.