School of Music

Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 3583
Phone 2: (626) 633-9280
Fax: (626) 969-7419
Email: akoops@apu.edu

Born and raised in Jos, Nigeria, Alexander Koops has worked in Colorado and New Mexico teaching band, choir, and general music, as well conducting professionally and performing vocally and on Horn. While in Colorado, he worked as the assistant conductor for the Denver Opera Company and led many performances with them, including The Magic Flute, La Boehme, The Medium, and The Three Penny Opera. While at the University of Colorado, he conducted the concert band and campus band, and guest conducted the Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band. He was also assistant director for the University of Colorado Golden Buffalo Marching Band. Additionally, Koops has worked as a church choir director, private teacher, and as a board member for the Colorado Mahlerfest in Boulder, Colorado. Koops continues to further his education by pursuing a doctorate in Music Education from the University of Southern California (USC).

DMA - Music Education, University of Southern California [nearing completion]
M.M.- Instrumental Conducting, University of Colorado at Boulder
B.A.- Music Education, Calvin College

Presentations
Southern California Music Educators Conference, California State University, Fullerton, January 2005

Band Conducting Symposium, Shanghai Musicians Association, August 2005

Academic Experience
Choir Director, Wingate High School, 2000-2001

Director of Bands, Rehoboth Christian School, 2000-2001

Graduate Teaching Assistant for Wind Conducting and Marching Band, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1998-2000

Industry Experience
SCSBOA Conducting Clinic, California State College, Long Beach, 2004

Riverside Community College Conducting Symposium, 2002

Conductors Guild Workshop, University of North Carolina, 2000

CBDNA Conducting Symposium, University of Colorado, 1999, 2000, 2005

Assistant Conductor, Denver Opera Company, 1997-2000

Ministerial/Para-church Experience
Assistant Director of Instrumental Music and Orchestra Conductor, Lake Avenue Church, Pasadena, California, 2002-2003

Church Choir Conductor, Crestview Christian Reformed Church, 1998-2000

Associations, Boards, Committees
College Band Directors National Association
Conductors Guild
International Horn Society
Music Educators National Conference
Southern California School Band & Orchestra Association