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Andrew Howard Pettus
The South Carolina School of the Arts
The South Carolina School of the Arts
Director of Instrumental Music
apettus@andersonuniversity.edu
(864) 231-2127
Rainey Fine Arts Building Room 132
Academic Background
Dr. Andrew Pettus is originally from Florence, AL. At the University of Alabama, he served as drum major of the Million Dollar Band for four years while arranging and writing drill for the band as well. Dr. Pettus was the Director of Bands at Hillcrest High School in Tuscaloosa, AL from 2006-2012. When not involved in some musical activity, Dr. Pettus is an avid tennis player. Dr. Pettus currently resides in Anderson, SC with his amazing wife, Ashli and has a 9-year old daughter, Sophie and a 5-year old son, Samuel who have stolen his heart.
BS in Music Education (Instrumental), University of Alabama
BS in Pure Mathematics, University of Alabama
MM in Music Education (Conducting Emphasis with Gary Green), University of Miami
DMA in Conducting (Craig Kirchhoff), University of Minnesota
Fast Facts
Engaging, high-energy, intense, fun, a safe place to mess up.
After teaching in public high school and serving as a graduate teaching assistant at two major universities, it is a joy to teach at a university where I don’t have to tiptoe around my faith. Not only can my students and I both grow personally and academically, but we are encouraged to grow spiritually and make a difference in the world for Christ. For me, there can be no higher calling.
Their own individual musicianship is key to all disciplines in music along with having diverse experiences and great flexibility.
Performed at the National Concert Band Festival in Indianapolis, IN 2008
Performed at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago, IL 2009
Performed at the Southern CBDNA/NBA Conference in Oxford, MS 2010
By Invitation, a 2-week performance tour of China Summer 2011
The students are incredible along with my colleagues, and I get to pour into all of them both musically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Conducting (Band & Orchestra), Music Fundamentals/Music Theory, Orchestration, Secondary Methods for Music Education, Woodwind Methods, Band & Orchestra Repertoire, Wind Symphony, & Anderson Symphony Orchestra
- “Passionate Teachers: An Interview with Andy Pettus and Leslie Welker” by Dan Blaufuss The Instrumentalist, November 2009
