Russell McCutcheon, Ph.D.
Associate Director of Band, Wind and Percussion Activities
Director of Athletic Bands
Instrumental Music Education
www.russmccutcheon.com
Contact: rmccutcheon@otterbein.edu
Russell McCutcheon is Associate Director of Band, Wind and Percussion Activities and an Assistant Professor of Music at Otterbein College. At Otterbein he teaches instrumental methods, conducting, instrumental pedagogy and the music education practicum. He conducts the Otterbein Chamber Winds, Symphonic/Concert Band and directs the Cardinal Marching band. He is also the technology coordinator for the Department of Music and advisor to the Otterbein College chapter of the Ohio Collegiate Music Educators Association.
Dr. McCutcheon received his Ph.D. in Music Education with a concentration in Wind Conducting from the University of Florida in Gainesville where he served as Assistant Conductor of the Wind Symphony. His music education advisors were Drs. Russell Robinson and Charles Hoffer and he was in the conducting studio of Dr. David Waybright. Additionally, he has studied conducting with Rodney Winther, Anthony Maiello, and Tom Lee.
Dr. McCutcheon received his Master of Science in Music Education from Troy State University in Troy, Alabama and holds a Bachelor of Music degree in music education from the University of Florida. He has 8 years of teaching experience in the public schools. His bands have performed in New York City and his jazz bands have opened for Maynard Ferguson. Dr. McCutcheon is currently principal timpanist for the Westerville Symphony and has performed as a percussionist with the Gainesville Symphony Orchestra and the Central Florida Symphony Orchestra. He is active nationally and internationally as a clinician, guest conductor and adjudicator and is a member of the College Band Directors National Association, College Music Society, Ohio Music Educators Association, the International Association of Jazz Education, Percussive Arts Society, the National Band Association, MENC: The National Association for Music Education, Kappa Kappa Psi (National Honorary Fraternity for College Bandmembers), and the academic honor society Phi Kappa Phi.
