Dr. Mary Steele Moegle is an Associate Professor of Music at Louisiana Tech University. Beginning her career here in 2000, she is the head of four areas: piano studies, collaboration/accompanying, Music History, and Music Appreciation. Her teaching responsibilities include Applied Piano, Music History, and Honors Music Appreciation. A doctoral graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Dr. Moegle has studied performing, coaching, and collaborative techniques with internationally known pianists and coaches, such as Robert Spillman, Larry Graham, Mutsumi Moteki, and Constance Carroll. She has performed at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Middle Tennessee State University, Centenary College, Mississippi College, Mississippi State University, the University of Louisiana at Monroe, and the University of Alabama. Her students continually seek outside performance and competitive opportunities. Most recently, she worked with piano majors to prepare and perform George Crumb’s Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III). Each spring her piano students participate in a Piano Studio Recital, performing solo and duo works. Piano majors also hear a professional piano guest artist each year, and piano students have the opportunity to learn from the artist in a piano masterclass. Along with performing and teaching, Dr. Moegle enjoys researching women in music and American popular music. Her current focus includes the female composers Cécile Chaminade, Amy Beach, and Lili Boulanger. She also enjoys studying popular music, popular music performers, and Broadway musicals. She has presented papers at Tech’s Liberal Arts Symposium, the Southern Chapter Conference of the College of Music Society, and at an international musicological conference in Struga, Macedonia. Dr. Moegle has served as Louisiana Tech Concert Association (LTCA) Director since 2022. During her time as director, she has arranged for Louisiana Tech to host Roomful of Teeth and Sandbox Percussion the same year they were awarded Grammys. Hosting these Grammy winners was a first for LTCA. Through her efforts, she also had the first full-length album performed on Howard Stage. Each season, she coordinates bringing a wide array of professional concert artists and performing groups that perform for and work with Louisiana Tech students. From 2022-2025, Dr. Moegle served as Interim Director of the School of Music. As director, she spearheaded the hiring of six full-time faculty members; four of those positions are tenure-track. While continuing her full-time teaching duties, Dr. Moegle worked tirelessly to improve teaching and performing spaces at Tech, providing new acoustic sound shells, updating the technology in teaching spaces, and supporting music students’ travel for additional educational experiences. For the first time in the School of Music history, music students attended the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) Conference and a Songwriters trip to Nashville, Tennessee. Collaborating with faculty, Dr. Moegle also refined and expanded the School of Music curriculum offerings adding several new courses. In October 2025, Louisiana piano teachers elected her to serve as the Louisiana Music Teachers Association (LMTA) President-Elect. She has also served as Ruston Area Music Teachers Association (RAMTA) President for two terms. Through Music Teachers National Association, Dr. Moegle is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM). Additionally, Dr. Moegle is frequently in demand as an adjudicator, having judged at local, state, and regional competitions. For well over a decade, Dr. Moegle has served on the board of directors for Ruston Community Theatre (RCT). Since 2015, she has served various roles on the RCT Executive Board, including president. While serving as RCT president, Dr. Moegle directed the first RCT Youth Production, which has spawned a burgeoning group of young actors and singers. RCT’s youth productions have grown exponentially since then. Additionally, she was the first and currently only RCT Director to institute flying during a production at the Dixie Center for the Arts.
