Biography
Dr. Steven Sudduth is in his first season as the director of Athletic Bands at Calvin University. He also serves as the director of the Lansing Concert Band and is enjoying his 15th season as conductor of the Southern Stars Symphonic Brass (a professional brass band in Crossville, TN). Recently, he was the interim director of bands and music education at the University of West Florida. Dr. Sudduth previously taught at the University of the Cumberlands (KY), the University of South Dakota, Dickinson State University (ND), and Pfeiffer University (NC). Dr. Sudduth earned a Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and holds master's degrees in trombone performance and composition from Western Michigan University and the University of Central Arkansas. He is very active as a conductor and clinician and is frequently sought as a guest conductor at state and regional honor bands. He has performed professionally with the South Dakota Brass Quintet, the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra, the Roanoke Opera Company, and the West Michigan Symphony. Active as a composer, Dr. Sudduth has written numerous compositions and arrangements for band and chamber music.
Education
D.M.A., Trombone Performance (Randy Kohlenberg), Conducting (Robert Gutter), University of North Carolina-Greensboro, 1998
M.M, Composition (Ramon Zupko), Trombone Performance (Steve Wolfinbarger), Western Michigan University, 1988
B.M., Trombone Performance (Denis Winter), University of Central Arkansas, 1985
