Sutton holds degrees from Northwest University, San José State University, and the University of California at Los Angeles. His mentors include Charlene Archibeque and Donald Neuen, and he has worked and performed with notable conductors and choral luminaries such as Robert Shaw, Helmuth Rilling, Eric Ericson, Weston Noble, Frank Pooler, Howard Swan, Paul Salamunovich, Anton Armstrong, Eph Ehly, and Jerry Blackstone.

His performance career has taken him throughout the US and abroad in choral concert tours and recording projects, including performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and Constitution Hall. His performance tours have taken him throughout Canada, Europe, Asia, and South America. Sutton’s ongoing relationship with the LA Phil has resulted in conducting at the Hollywood Bowl with Barry Manilow and Barbra Streisand and two sold-out performances with Julie Andrews at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Sutton’s enthusiasm for the choral art and his commitment to excellence have made him a popular choral clinician, festival conductor, and adjudicator. He has prepared choirs from the US and the UK at the Britannia Music Festival in Birmingham and London, and he is the founding conductor for the Exultate Deo Choral Festival in Buenos Aires. Since moving to Los Angeles in 2000, Sutton has conducted choral music heard on weekly television series and national ad campaigns for major motion pictures and events.

Sutton is a professor in the School of Music in the College of the Arts at Azusa Pacific University, where he was nominated for the national Arlin G. Meyer Prize in Musical Performance, received the inaugural Faith & Fine Arts Award, and, for two consecutive years, was a nominee for APU’s Most Inspirational Faculty of the Year.

He lives in Altadena with his wife, Cecilia Patiño-Sutton, a native Argentine.