Meet the Faculty

Your master's in conducting features the following outstanding faculty.

• Natalie Buickians, DMA

  Adjunct Professor, Department of Music Studies

  • Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 4600
  • Email: lbuickians@apu.edu
  • Office Location: East Campus
• John Burdett, EdD

  Assistant Professor; Director of Instrumental Studies; Director of Bands

  • Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 2029
  • Email: jburdett@apu.edu
  • Office Location: Warren Music Center, Room 211
• Mari Falcone Cantos, M.M.

  Adjunct Professor

  • Phone: (626) 815-6000
  • Email: mcantos@apu.edu
  • Office Location: East Campus
• Mark Converse, B.M.

  Applied Instructor, Drumset

  • Phone: (661) 297-5670
  • Email: mconverse@apu.edu
  • Office Location: Warren Music Center, Room 121
• David Hughes, DMA

  Professor Emeritus, School of Music

• Michael Kozubek, MM

  Professor Emeritus, School of Music

• Kyungmi Kim, MMA

  Staff Accompanist, Department of Music Performance

  • Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 4600
  • Email: kykim@apu.edu
  • Office Location: East Campus
• Maurice Limon, M.A.

  Adjunct Professor

  • Phone: (626) 815-6000
  • Email: mlimon@apu.edu
  • Office Location: East Campus
• Crystal Rivette, MM

  Director, Artist Certificate Program; Adjunct Professor of Piano Studies

  • Phone: (626) 812-3022
  • Email: crivette@apu.edu
  • Office Location: Warren Music Center, Room 205
• Christopher Russell, MM

  Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Music Performance; Conductor, Symphony Orchestra; Instrumental Conducting

  • Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 2003
  • Email: cprussell@apu.edu
  • Office Location: Warren Music Center, Room 233
• Aretha Scruggs, M.A.

  Adjunct Professor, Department of Commercial Music

  • Email: ascruggs@apu.edu
• Douglas Shabe, DMA

  Adjunct Professor, Department of Music Studies

  • Phone: (562) 212-8062
  • Email: dshabe@apu.edu
  • Office Location: East Campus
• John Sutton, DMA

  Professor; Director of Choral Activities; Conductor of Choral Scholars; Conductor of University Choir; Choral Conducting

  • Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3581
  • Email: jsutton@apu.edu
  • Office Location: Warren Music Center, Room 201
• Scott Whitfield, M.M.

  Applied Instructor, Trombone

  • Phone: (818) 577-8676
  • Email: scott@bicoastalmusic.net