The joy of singing is particularly close to Silja Stegemeier's heart. As a teenager, she took over the choir direction of the local children's choir and sang in the Hanover Girls' Choir, later in the Johannes Brahms Choir and occasionally in various other choirs.

Silja Stegemeier studied to become a primary and secondary school teacher in Hanover, before going on to study choral and ensemble conducting. She has conducted a large number of children's, youth and adult choirs and has worked as a vocal coach in choirs with a very wide range of abilities. Silja Stegemeier has been an artistic assistant at the Institute of Music in the field of vocal training since 2004. She gives individual singing lessons and offers various group lessons and seminars on all aspects of singing together: Voice training and children's and youth choir conducting are the regular programmes, as well as language development with music, intergenerational music-making, musical projects at schools and much more.