APME Memphis 2025: Full Schedule

Welcome to the APME Memphis 2025 conference. Here, you’ll be able to register for the conference and update your Sched profile. The conference schedule will be available in late spring 2025. At that time, you can view the schedule and select the presentations you’d like to attend. If you have any questions, please visit our conference website or contact us at conference@popularmusiceducation.org We look forward to coming together as a community June 4–7, 2025.

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10:15am CDT

Roger Bacon Rhythm 'n' Blues Rock Band (RB3)

Thursday June 5, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am CDT

Harris Hall - Legacy Building

Clinicians

Scott Burstein

Kat Reinhert

Speakers

Joseph Montgomery

Roger Bacon High School

Thursday June 5, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am CDT
Harris Hall - Legacy Building

APME LIVE

10:15am CDT

The Zoo Band

Thursday June 5, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am CDT

SPAC - Traicoff Music Hall @ 3800 Central Ave, Memphis, TN 38117

The Zoo Band at Music Box is a group of emerging-professional musicians, composed of middle and high school students. These are students that take instrument, vocal and music production lessons. The group's diverse and expansive contemporary music repertoire of covers and originals speaks to the complete human experience of identity, love, loss, longing, and good times. Music Box musicians meet weekly to learn, write and practice together, under the leadership and guidance of a Music Box Modern Band Educator. The band draws inspiration from past and present music legends, various cultures and music styles, and always seeks to further refine their signature sound, give back to their community, and use their skills and talents for good. The band has been playing together for over 3 years, and has several recorded originals that they also perform.

Clinicians

Chris Burns

Fine and Performing Arts Resource Specialist, School District of Osceola County

Christopher Burns is currently the Fine and Performing Arts Resource Specialist in Osceola County, Florida. He received his B.M.E. from the University of Central Florida and his M.M.E. from Boston University and holds a PhD in Music Education from the University of South Florida with... Read More →

Ruth Debrot

Senior Lecturer in Music Education, Boston University

I am interested in all things about teaching and learning. I sing, play guitar and keys in my band, Notorious Jones. Let's jam!

Speakers

Yelena Ovando

Sponsors

Music Box Inc.

Music Box is a music school that teaches music as a language, embraces modern repertoire & technology and belies that music learning is more fun than people think. At 400 students, 15 teachers & 2 locations Music Box offers piano, guitar, bass, voice, drums & music production lesson... Read More →

Thursday June 5, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am CDT
SPAC - Traicoff Music Hall 3800 Central Ave, Memphis, TN 38117

APME LIVE

11:30am CDT

Holyoke STEM Beats

Thursday June 5, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm CDT

Harris Hall - Legacy Building @ 3800 Central Ave, Memphis, TN 38117

Performing music ranging from Usher to Herbie Hancock to Kendrick Lamar, STEM Beats takes pride in delivering only the highest quality. Hailing from Holyoke, MA, we are the music program at Holyoke STEM Academy, a public middle school with approximately 300 students. Every student at STEM Academy is part of STEM Beats for the entire year.

STEM Beats has performed at various local schools, Boston University, hosted music education classes, and much more. We perform music chosen and arranged by our students. Our group features keyboards, drum sets, singers, rappers, mallet percussion, bass, and guitar. We are not a band, we are not a choir—WE ARE STEM BEATS!

Clinicians

Heather Fortune

Music Teacher, Friends Select School

Educator and Flutist Heather Fortune leads instrumental ensembles at Friends Select School in Center City, Philadelphia. Her inclusive approach centers student voice and choice, utilizes good music technology to empower learners, and builds responsive classroom spaces. Heather coaches... Read More →

Matt Tutor

Artists

Holyoke STEM Academy

Thursday June 5, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm CDT
Harris Hall - Legacy Building

APME LIVE

11:30am CDT

Versatile

Thursday June 5, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm CDT

SPAC - Traicoff Music Hall @ 3800 Central Ave, Memphis, TN 38117

Versatile is a collective of talented musicians from Alabama State University. Established in the spring of 2022, the ensemble includes both non-music, music majors, and majors who excel as musical code-switchers. The group takes pride in their professionalism, creativity, and versatility as music makers and multi-instrumentalists.

Clinicians

Paul McKinney

STAX Music Academy

Raina Murnak

Vice President, University of Miami

Speakers

Shane Colquhoun

Assistant Professor of Music Technology and Contemporary Music Styles, Alabama State University

Shane Colquhoun is an educator, producer, arranger, and composer with a diverse musical background. He earned his Bachelor’s of Arts from Bethune-Cookman University in Music Technology, and his master’s in music education from Auburn University (AU), where he is also completing... Read More →

Artists

Alabama State University

Thursday June 5, 2025 11:30am - 12:30pm CDT
SPAC - Traicoff Music Hall 3800 Central Ave, Memphis, TN 38117

APME LIVE

2:00pm CDT

Within

Thursday June 5, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm CDT

Harris Hall - Legacy Building @ 3800 Central Ave, Memphis, TN 38117

We are Within, a group formed in the ALA Modern Band program in 2022. Our members are Viviana Villanueva (lead singer and bassist), Evan Bohmann (drummer), Kathleen Juarez (guitarist), and Marissa Esparza (guitarist and pianist). We have been performing covers as a band for 3 years, and play a wide variety of music genres ranging from rock, pop, and other famous classics. We have recently been writing our own songs and plan to continue writing more originals going forward. In our audition video, we will be playing one of our original songs called Scout.

Clinicians