{"id":9558,"date":"2023-05-17T09:32:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T13:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/?page_id=9558"},"modified":"2026-01-05T12:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T17:40:56","slug":"faculty-and-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/about-us\/faculty-and-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty and Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Faculty and Staff<\/h1>\n
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Faculty<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Jay S. Gephart<\/a><\/h3>

Professor<\/p>

Al G. Wright Chair of Bands<\/p>

jsgephart@purdue.edu<\/p><\/div><\/article> <\/div>\n

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Matthew R. Conaway<\/a><\/h3>

Professor<\/p>

Director of the Purdue “All-American” Marching Band<\/p>

conaway@purdue.edu<\/p><\/div><\/article> <\/div>\n

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Dr. Pamela J. Nave<\/a><\/h3>

Associate Professor<\/p>

Director of Percussion<\/p>

pjnave@purdue.edu<\/p><\/div><\/article> <\/div>\n

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Adam Bodony<\/a><\/h3>

Associate Professor<\/p>

Director of Orchestras<\/p>

abodony@purdue.edu<\/p><\/div><\/article> <\/div>\n

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Bethany Robinson<\/a><\/h3>

Clinical Assistant Professor<\/p>

Director of Jazz Bands<\/p>

berobins@purdue.edu<\/p><\/div><\/article> <\/div>\n

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Jarrard Harris<\/a><\/h3>

Clinical Assistant Professor<\/p>

harri888@purdue.edu<\/p><\/div><\/article> <\/div>\n

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Dr. David Blon<\/a><\/h3>

Clinical Assistant Professor<\/p>

dblon@purdue.edu<\/p><\/div><\/article> <\/div>\n

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Dr. Lucas Petersen<\/a><\/h3>

Clinical Assistant Professor<\/p>

lhpeters@purdue.edu<\/p><\/div><\/article> <\/div>\n

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Douglas Fletcher<\/a><\/h3>

Director of Operations<\/p>

drfletch@purdue.edu<\/p><\/div><\/article> <\/div>\n

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Jeff Parthun<\/a><\/h3>

Visiting Instructor, Orchestra<\/p>

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Staff<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Esther Kirgiss<\/a><\/h3>

Director of External Relations<\/p>

ekirgiss@purdue.edu<\/p><\/div><\/article> <\/div>\n

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Caitlin Cotten<\/a><\/h3>

Manager of Recruitment and Student Success<\/p>

caitlin@purdue.edu<\/p><\/div><\/article> <\/div>\n

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Humza Nasir<\/a><\/h3>

Multimedia Designer<\/p>

nasirh@purdue.edu<\/p><\/div><\/article> <\/div>\n

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Kim Delks<\/h3>

Business Assistant<\/p>kdelks@purdue.edu<\/a><\/div><\/article> <\/div>\n

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Susan Lipscomb<\/a><\/h3>

Senior Administrative Assistant<\/p>

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Auxiliary Coaches<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Morgan Loetz<\/a><\/h3>

Director of Auxiliaries and Twirling Coach<\/p>

Assistant Director of Operations<\/p>

masher@purdue.edu<\/p><\/div><\/article> <\/div>\n

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Natalie Hess<\/a><\/h3>

Golduster Dance Team Coach<\/p>

hess85@purdue.edu<\/p><\/div><\/article> <\/div>\n

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Jef Furr<\/a><\/h3>

Golden Silks Color Guard and Winter Guard Coach<\/p>

furrj@purdue.edu<\/p><\/div><\/article> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

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Applied Music Instructors<\/h2>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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Amy Brandfonbrener<\/h3>

Chamber Music Instructor<\/p>brandfon@purdue.edu<\/a><\/div><\/article> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"parent":9650,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[0],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9558","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9558"}],"version-history":[{"count":168,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46317,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9558\/revisions\/46317"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}