GAMAC's Leaders
Teaching for 2003 and Southern Wesleyan University’s Faculty Member of the Year for 2003-4. Additional honors include being recently elected President-Elect in the South Carolina American Choral Directors Association and contributing to Visions of Excellence: a Dialog with the Finest Directors from the Barbershop Harmony Society. Karen, his wife of 38 years, sings in the GAMAC Chorale. Andrew Pettus Conductor, Anderson Symphony Orchestra Dr. Andrew Pettus is originally from Florence, AL. He received two Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of mathematics, a Master of Music degree from the University of Miami in music education with emphasis in Alabama in music education and pure conducting under Professor Gary Green, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Minnesota in conducting under Professor Craig Kirchhoff. During his time at the University of Alabama, he served as drum major of the Million Dollar Marching 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 for six years during which his bands performed at the Alabama Music Educators' Conference, the Music for All National Concert Festival in Indianapolis, IN, the Midwest Clinic in Chicago, IL, the CBDNA & NBA Southern Division Conference in Oxford, MS, and a 2-week tour of China by invitation through the US-China Cultural Exchange. Also during his time in Tuscaloosa, he served as the Director of the Tuscaloosa Youth Orchestra and the Orchestra Director of First Baptist Church of Tuscaloosa. Dr. Pettus currently resides
in Anderson, SC where he holds the position of Director of Instrumental Music at the South Carolina School of the Arts at Anderson University. He also serves as the conductor of the Anderson Symphony Orchestra. When not involved in some musical activity, Dr. Pettus is an avid tennis player. He is married to his amazing wife, Ashli and has a 8-year old daughter, Sophie and a 4-year old son, Samuel who have stolen his heart. Alan Nowell Conductor, Electric City Big Band A native of
Anderson, Alan graduated from Westside High School, then received his A.A. degree in Musical Performance from Anderson College in 1976. He continued his education at Newberry College
where he studied clarinet with Dr. John Wagner and graduated Cum Laude in 1978 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education. He received a masters degree in Music Education from Anderson University in 2013. After graduation he auditioned for the musical touring group The Spurrlows, performing in shows throughout the United States, Europe, Scandinavia and South America. Following a four year road stint with The Spurrlows, Alan soon went back out on the road with the contemporary Christian group Truth, again traveling the US and to Brazil for World Vision. Eventually the Truth connection led him to work as a studio musician in Lynchburg, Va. for Dr. Jerry Falwell and the Liberty Broadcasting Network, along with Thomas Road Baptist Church ministries, The Old Time Gospel Hour and Liberty University. In 1989 he returned to Anderson to accept a position teaching band at McCants Middle School and assisted at TL Hanna High School for twenty years. While at McCants, the band
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