Prior to his appointment in 2009, he served as the Chair of the Creative Arts Department as well as the Choral and Band Director of The Hewitt School in New York City, a private school for girls on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Casey began playing the piano at age 7 under legendary teachers Armilla Zix Wilson and Edgar Roberts of The Juilliard School. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Music Education and Choral Conducting from Butler University, where he studied with acclaimed choral conductor Henry Leck and composer/arranger James Quitman Mulholland.