MOUNT VERNON — “It’s day three of band camp,” Andrew Sundman said Wednesday, “but it feels like I’ve been around here a while now. I met the kids back in June right at the end of the school year when Gary [McCutcheon] retired. I came in and worked with the kids, so it was nice, I got to meet them before band camp.”
Originally from the Youngstown area, Sundman is Mount Vernon High School’s new instrumental music instructor and band director. He attended the University of Akron for his undergraduate and master’s degrees in music education and has served as a music teacher and band director in Zanesville and Kent City Schools.
Sundman said the move to Mount Vernon is a positive one for several reasons: “It fits my personal life, since my fiancée lives in New Albany; it fits my professional life and it fits my military career, too.”
“When the Mount Vernon job opened up,” Sundman continued, “I jumped all over it. I knew it was a good quality program and a good opportunity for me to make that move. I knew MVHS has a good tradition of an excellent band program. They’ve done real well at district contests. With 93 kids in the marching band, it is a good-sized program. I was real excited to get a chance to work with a program that large. I know it’s a good, established music program.
