Local resident Lawrence Stoffel, director of bands at California State University, Northridge, this week was named the 2010 recipient of the California Music Educators Association's John Swain College/University Educator Award.

The annual award is presented to a California music professor to honor excellence in music education at the college/university level.

Stoffel’s wife, Peggi Stoffel, is a music educator who teaches beginning orchestra in the Newhall School District music program.

Stoffel is the second CSUN faculty member to receive the John Swain College/University Educator Award.