APME Memphis 2025: Directory

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.

Ryan Van Bibber

Ryan Van Bibber teaches audio and music production at the Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center: a large, urban, public high school in Columbus, OH, USA. He has degrees in music education from Ohio University and The Ohio State University, a master certificate in music writing and production from the Berklee College of Music Online, and is an Avid Certified Instructor.

Company Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center
Position Audio Production Instructor
Location Columbus, OH, USA

Ethan Hein

Ethan Hein holds a PhD in Music Education from New York University. He is an adjunct professor of music at NYU and the New School, where he teaches songwriting, music theory and production. As a founding member of the NYU Music Experience Design Lab, Ethan has taken a leadership role in the development of online tools for music learning and expression, most notably the Groove Pizza. Together with Will Kuhn, he is the co-author of Electronic Music School: A Contemporary Approach to Teaching Creativity, published by Oxford University Press. Together with Heather Fortune, he is the composer of 5 ... Read more

Company New York University
Position Adjunct
Location Greater New York City Area

Steve Holley

Steve Holley is a music educator/bassist/author living in Denver, CO. Steve holds a Ph.D. in Music Learning and Teaching from Arizona State University as well as a B.M. and an M.M. in Jazz/Classical Bass Performance from the University of Memphis.

As a teacher, Steve previously served as the Producer for the Commercial Music Program at the Kent Denver School outside Denver, CO, for nineteen years. During his tenure, the R&B, soul, salsa, and jazz bands of the CMP were recognized by DownBeat magazine’s Student Music Awards fifteen times. The bands performed hundreds of gigs in the U.S. and ab... Read more

Company APME
Position President
Location Denver, CO

Yvan Kelly

Company Flagler College
Position Professor of Economics
Location St. Augustine, FL

Raina Murnak

Company University of Miami
Position Vice President
Location Miami, Fl

Patrick Olsen

I am in Singapore working to develop a Popular Music programme at a quickly growing college that will soon become a university. I run the Ensembles & Aural Skills (ear training) modules.
My interests are primarily in pedagogy: learning cultures, meaning-making, differences in student/teacher perceptions.
Prior to Singapore, I was in Cambridge (UK), Limerick (Ireland) and Boston (USA).

Work email: patrick.olsen[at]laslle.edu.sg

Company LASALLE | University of the Arts Singapore
Position Lecturer in Popular Music
Location Singapore

Steven A. Potaczek

Steven Potaczek is focused on helping musical artists and students discover and express their potential as creative careerists. As a music producer, he has worked with some of the top names in the industry (The Band Perry, The Barenaked Ladies, and Skillet to name a few), and has successfully partnered with organizations such as MTV, National Geographic, and the Heartland Film Festival. He has received numerous industry accolades (including the Gospel Music Academy’s “Song of the Year” award and the John Lennon Songwriting Award), toured nationally as a major label artist with a Billboard...

Company Samford University
Position Assistant Professor and Director of Commercial Music Program
Location Birmingham, Alabama

Nicholas Quigley

Nicholas Patrick Quigley, MM, CAGS (he/they) is an artist/educator from the unceded Wampanoag land presently known as Fall River, Massachusetts, where they teach creative music production classes in the public high schools and facilitate an expressive arts club. Their original music can be streamed on all platforms.

Company Fall River Public Schools
Position MM, CAGS
Location Fall River, MA

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