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.

12:00pm CDT

Celebrating Popular Music in the Studio Orchestra Setting: A Community-Wide Collaboration

Thursday June 5, 2025 12:00pm - 12:30pm CDT

Virtual Pop 10!

Conductor/composer Jonathan Allentoff will lead a dynamic Virtual Pop! 10 Session on celebrating popular music in the studio orchestra setting with community-wide collaborations. The presentation will highlight insights from Allentoff’s collaborative concerts with the Eastman Summer Studio Orchestra, Brockport Symphony Orchestra, and the Flight 584 Big Band.

Speakers

Jonathan Allentoff

Music Director, Educator & Composer/Arranger, GPAS Greece Community, Brockport Symphony, and TBE Orchestras; Brighton Symphony Orchestra; Hillel School, Eastman, LA I

Jonathan Allentoff is the music director of the Brockport Symphony, Greece Community and Temple Beth El Orchestras, associate conductor and principal arranger of the Brighton Symphony Orchestra, President of the Greece Performing Arts Society (GPAS), director of the Eastman Klezmer... Read More →

Thursday June 5, 2025 12:00pm - 12:30pm CDT
Virtual Pop 10!

Community Music

2:30pm CDT

Harmonies of Heart: Encouraging Jazz and Pop Student Acts for Senior Care Facilities

Thursday June 5, 2025 2:30pm - 2:40pm CDT

Classroom 105 - Legacy Building @ 3775 Central Avenue 129 Music Building Memphis, TN, 38111

There is a need for music in retirement homes, especially memory units. This presentation offers ideas that APME educators can adapt to encourage students – soloists or combos of any genre of music – to share their music with seniors in a way that brings joy to everyone.

Speakers

Brian Wansink

Professor (retired), Cornell University

My name is Brian Wansink, and I’m a retired Cornell marketing professor who has published best-selling books and 200-some journal articles. Now, as a later-life musician, I play sax in a Motown band (and in a Grateful Dead band), and I research how popular music can be used to encourage... Read More →

Thursday June 5, 2025 2:30pm - 2:40pm CDT
Classroom 105 - Legacy Building 3775 Central Avenue 129 Music Building Memphis, TN, 38111

Community Music, Pop 10!

12:00pm CDT

Community Music Festivals as a Growth Opportunity for Students

Saturday June 7, 2025 12:00pm - 12:30pm CDT

SPAC - Hodges Choral Room @ 3800 Central Ave, Memphis, TN 38117

This session will explore the challenges and rewards of putting on live student concert events in the local community, based on recent experiences of Bergen Community College (NJ) faculty and students producing events at established venues and festivals as well as creating and producing their own local music festival. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit New Jersey in 2020, students were not only deprived of in-person instruction but also of opportunities to develop as performers and build confidence through live, on campus performances. In hard hit Bergen County, NJ, this prompted Bergen CC faculty and students to put on outdoor concerts in the community - curating, producing and performing at an event as part international Make Music Day as well as working with county officials to put on a concert series featuring both student and community-based songwriters at the county park amphitheater. These events, which build on Bergen CC’s tradition of putting on concerts for its Pop/Rock Ensemble and songwriting students at indoor community venues, shed light on the value of arranging student performances off campus. The presentation will discuss necessary funding, promotion, pre-production and day of event needs for putting on off-campus concert events, as well as possibilities for working these aspects of concert production into classroom instruction.

Speakers

Dan Sheehan

Associate Professor of Music, Bergen Community College

Dan Sheehan teaches music production at Bergen Community College and is a practitioner and advocate of socially conscious popular music. His current project, Tales from Earth Incorporated, takes on global economic injustice with rock music and lyrics. Prior to TFEI, Dan released three... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 12:00pm - 12:30pm CDT
SPAC - Hodges Choral Room 3800 Central Ave, Memphis, TN 38117

Community Music, Demonstration

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