Music Faculty by Instrument

View a complete list of APU’s School of Music faculty, or use the listing below to find faculty by instrument/area of focus.

Bass (Classical)

• Nathan Farrington, BM

Bass (Commercial)

• Rick Shaw

Bass Guitar

• Isaias Elpes

Bassoon

• Paul Curtis, MM

Cello

• Marek Szpakiewicz, DMA
• Pin Fei Tang, MM

Clarinet

• Michele Zukovsky
• David Chang, MM

Composition

• David Beatty, MM, MBA
• Mark Gasbarro
• Thomas Hynes, MA
• Michael Lee, MM
• Michael Lopez
• Stephen Martin, DCM
• Phil Shackleton, DMA
• Michael Watts
• Chris Wills

Conducting

• John Burdett, EdD
• Michelle Jensen, MM
• Christopher Russell, MM
• John Sutton, DMA

Drumset

• Mark Converse
• Alan Waddington

Flute

• Gary Woodward, MM

French Horn

• James Thatcher
• Stephanie J. Thomas, BM

Guitar

• Brian Barany, DMA
• Jose Hernandez

Guitar (Commercial)

• Thomas Hynes, MA

Harp

• Allison Allport, DMA

Oboe/English Horn

• Ted Sugata, DMA

Percussion

• Yuri Inoo, DMA
• William Schlitt, BA

Piano (Commercial)

• William Cantos
• Joel Clifft, DMA
• Mark Gasbarro
• J. Michael O’Neal
• Éva Polgár, DMA
• Amy Rowe

Piano (Performance)

• Joel Clifft, DMA
• Andrew Park, DMA
• Éva Polgár, DMA
• Crystal Rivette, MM

Saxophone

• Kenneth Foerch
• David B. “Rusty” Higgins

Trombone

• David Beatty, MM, MBA
• Richard Bullock
• Alex Iles

Trumpet

• Robert Slack
• David Washburn, MM

Viola

• Fung Ho, MM
• Hui Liu
• Alex Russell, DMA

Violin

• Ingrid Chun, MM
• Fung Ho, MM
• Yuki Mori, BM
• Min Jung Park, BM
• Alex Russell, DMA
• Suli Xue

Voice (Classical)

• Patricia Edwards, DMA
• Michael Thomas Geiger, MFA
• David Hughes, DMA
• Kristof Van Grysperre, DMA

Voice (Commercial)

• Sean Barrett, MM
• William Cantos
• David Joyce, MA
• Sara Leib, MM
• Aretha Scruggs