Assistant Professor, Director of Orchestral Studies

Paul K. Hostetter

Assistant Professor, Director of Orchestral Studies

Montclair State University

331 Dogwood Drive Union, NJ 07083 908-686-7904/Home (973) 655-7584 Office

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EDUCATION

B.M. The Florida State University 1987

M.M. The Juilliard School 1989

Conducting Teachers: Eric Stern (Broadway), Joseph Gifford (Professor-emeritus, Boston University, Richard Woitach (Metropolitan Opera), Phillip Spurgeon (Florida State University)

Masterclasses: Leonard Slatkin (Music Director, National Symphony), Larry Rachliff (Music Director, San Antonio Symphony) Daniel Barenboim (Music Director, Chicago Symphony), Christopher Wilkins (Music Director, Orlando Philharmonic)

Additional Studies: Analysis and Counterpoint with John Boda (Florida State University); Piano with Elizabeth DiFelice (Eastman School of Music); Voice with Mary Nessinger (Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center), Percussion with Elden Bailey (New York Philharmonic)

PROFESSIONAL CONDUCTING EXPERIENCE

Music Director and Conductor, Colonial Symphony 2005-Present

Morristown, New Jersey

The Colonial Symphony is a regional orchestra serving the Northern New Jersey region with a 57-year history and an outstanding national reputation. Currently we have a $400,000 yearly budget. I am its 6th Music Director. Some facts about this orchestra:

·  The CS presents five subscription concerts, which receive both feature articles and reviews in major publications throughout New Jersey.

·  For these subscription concerts I have engaged our cultural partners including the Shakespeare Theatre, the Morris Museum, the NJ Youth Choir, Harmonium, the Bickford Theatre, NJ Ballet, and Drew University. This has been in two years of my tenure. We also have engaged world renowned soloists.

·  I have helped to put in place visionary educational programs with partners including Jump Start, Newark Arts High School, Rosa Parks School of the Arts, Morristown High School, Frelinghysen Middle School, Randolph High School, and many others. These include composition seminars resulting in public performances, poetry and music workshops, master classes, clinics, and educational concerts.

·  I started a therapeutic partnership with the Carol G. Simon Cancer Center at Morristown Memorial Hospital, presenting concerts to people receiving radiation and chemotherapy treatments. It is expanding in the 2007-8 season to other departments within the hospital due to both patient demand and staff desire.

·  The CS has received major grants through the NJ State Council on the Arts, the Dodge Foundation, the Victoria Foundation, the American Symphony Orchestra League/Meet the Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts, and many others.

·  Our corporate development has elicited major funding from Wyeth, Chubb, Verizon, AT&T, Atlantic Mutual, Deloitte and Touche, and many others.

·  I have made over twenty speeches with community groups in two years.

·  The Colonial Symphony has received a citation of excellence from the State Council on the Arts, and maintains a national reputation for its visionary programming, of which I am the architect.

Paul Hostetter, Assistant Professor, Director of Orchestral Studies, Montclair State University

Conductor, Sequitur Ensemble 1997-Present

New York City, New York

The Sequitur Ensemble, based in New York City, is one of the premiere contemporary music groups in the United States. It receives regular recognition in the New York Times and its recordings have garnered rave reviews in all the major periodicals including Grammaphone, BBC, and Down Beat. Its musicians are drawn from the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Naumberg Chamber Music Award Winners, and soloists. I have conducted premieres by three Pulitzer prize winning composers including a recording of the music of Lewis Spratlan, which was listed as one of the top five of all CD's released in 2005 by NY Times chief critic Anthony Tommasini. I also led a workshop for composers at Cornell University with this group.

Artistic Director, Music Mondays at Advent Lutheran Church, NYC 2002-Present

New York City, NY

Music Mondays is a series I founded that presents free concerts to the public on the first Monday of each month, September through May. It has received critical notice in the New Yorker, NY Times, Village Voice, and other publications. Artists who have participated have included professionals and collegiate ensembles from around the world presenting classical, jazz, folk, and world music programs.

Music Director and Conductor, High Mountain Symphony 2001-04

Wayne, New Jersey

This professional orchestra has a twenty-five year history and I was its 4th Music Director. It reached audiences in Bergen County and I was responsible for programming and conducting four subscription concerts and three chamber concerts, developing educational projects for the Patterson School District, and coordinating world-class soloists. In one season I managed to triple ticket sales and doubled subscriptions.

Music Director, New Jersey Youth Symphony 2000-05

Murray Hill, New Jersey

This is the premiere youth symphony in New Jersey, and one of the top programs in the United States. It received and ASCAP Award for adventurous programming while I was the Music Director, and my orchestra went from 60 to 95 players in three years due to my recruiting. Overall the program had 420 students in six orchestras, and my last season we performed in Carnegie Hall.

Artistic Director, Winter Sun Music Festival 2001-2003

St. Petersburg, Florida

This is a festival held over the New Year's Holidays and includes college students from the major conservatories (Juilliard, Curtis, Manhattan School of Music, Indiana University, Northwestern University, etc…) and professionals. I programmed and conducted chamber and orchestral concerts, and also led lectures for an elder-hostel component.

Conductor, Washington Square Contemporary Music Society 1997-Present

Nationally recognized contemporary ensemble based in New York

Assistant to James Levine preparing the Metropolitan Opera Chamber Ensemble 2000-04

One of our greatest living conductors, one of the top ensembles in the world

Principal Guest Conductor, Daylesford Sinfonia (Bermuda) 1999-04

The only fully professional orchestra in Bermuda

Associate Conductor, Candide (Broadway Production, Gershwin Theater) 1997

Associate Conductor, The Gershwin's Fascinating Rhythm, (Broadway Production, 1999

Longacre Theater)

Conductor, Music Mobile 1993-98

Ensemble in residence at New York University

Paul Hostetter, Assistant Professor, Director of Orchestral Studies, Montclair State University

Guest Conducting

Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh (PA) 2007

World Premiere of Mathew Rosenblum's Red Dust

down.

Syracuse Symphony (NY) 2007

World Premiere of Brent Michael Davids' Last of the Mohicans presented as part

of the Syracuse Film Festival and recorded for broadcast on PBS.

NJ All-State Orchestra 2006

Representing the highest level of High School accomplishment

Manhattan School of Music (New York City) 2002-06

Conducted numerous performances for the Graduate Orchestral Performance

Program, the top program of its kind in the United States.

Philharmonia Virtuosi (NY) 2002-04

Programs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and educational programs in

Westchester, NY

Delaware Symphony Orchestra (DE) 2002-04

Multiple educational programs in Wilmington and surrounding cities

New York City Opera (New York City) 2002-04

Educational programs including Rapheal Mostel's Travels of Babar, one of the top

three opera companies in the US.

American Composers Orchestra (New York City) 2002-04

Whitaker New Music Readings, shared podium with Dennis Russell Davies, the

most preeminent new music orchestra in the US.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJ) 2001-04

Concerts at NJPAC and Princeton

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players 2001-02

I was offered the job as Music Director of this group of musicians drawn from the SF

Symphony, Opera, and Ballet. Budget of 400,000 a year. I turned the position down.

Genesis Opera Company (New York City) 2000-02

Led performances of Puccini's Il tabarro and Suor Angelica; Strauss's Ariadne

Auf Naxos, fully staged with young artists.

Performing Arts Institute (PA) 2002-Present

One of the leading summer festivals for high school students in the United States. I conduct an orchestra made of faculty, college advisors drawn from conservatories, and high school students.

Prism Chamber Orchestra 1997-99

A chamber orchestra made from high level NY freelancers. I conducted performances

in New York City and Pittsburgh.

Ensemble 21 1998-06

A group of virtuosi with whom I have conducted performances at the Guggenheim

Musuem, Merkin Hall, and Miller Theater at Columbia University. I also led a

Recording of Jason Ekharts's Piano Concerto that received outstanding reviews.

Phillip Glass's Music at the Anthology 1999-02

A new music series where I collaborated with world famous composer Phillip Glass

ASTA NJ Summer Music Festival 2005-06

A summer festival that the NJ Chapter of the American String Teachers Association

runs.

Family Opera Initiative 2006

A workshop of a new opera by Kitty Brazelton with a libretto by famed writer

George Plimpton

Paul Hostetter, Assistant Professor, Director of Orchestral Studies, Montclair State University

PROFESSIONAL PERCUSSION EXPERIENCE

Orchestra

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Timpani/Percussion 1992-1998

American Symphony Orchestra, Section Percussion 1991-2002

New York Philharmonic, Extra Percussion 1993-1997

Philharmonia Virtuosi, Principal Timpani 1992-1998

New York Chamber Symphony, Principal Percussion 1991-1996

Metropolitan Opera, Substitute Timpani 1995-1998

Little Orchestra Society, Principal Percussion 1992-1997

New World Symphony, Extra Percussion 1991-1995

Long Island Philharmonic, Principal Timpani 1992-1995

Westfield Symphony, Principal Timpani 1989-1998

Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Section Percussion/Assistant Timpani 1985-1987

Disney World, Staff Percussion 1982-1985

Chamber Music

Music Mobile 1989-1997

Perspectives Ensemble 1991-2000

New York Chamber Ensemble 1992-1995

Broadway Experience

Percussionist on Broadway for shows including Miss Saigon, Showboat, Beauty and the Beast, Scarlet Pimpernel, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Producers

Concerto Experience

American Symphony Orchestra, Cowell Concerto for Percussion

Little Orchestra Society of Lincoln Center, Druschevsky Concerto for 6 Timpani

Music Mobile, Matalon La Siete Vida un Gato

Florida State University Symphony, Kurka Concerto for Marimba

Florida State University Band, Tanner Concerto for Marimba

RECORDINGS

As a conductor:

ALBANY

Washington Square Contemporary Music Ensemble

Kraft - Cummingsong

Washington Square

Louis Karchin - Percussion Quartet

Sequitur

Carter - Double Concerto, Meltzer - Virginal, Musgrave - Lamenting with Ariadne, Rakowski - Locking Horns

Sequitur

Lewis Spratlan - Concertino, Time and the Seasons, Where Crows Gather, Zoom

(Named as top five of all recordings in 2005 by NY Times Chief Critic, Anthony Tommasini)

Paul Hostetter, Assistant Professor, Director of Orchestral Studies, Montclair State University

(Recordings con't)

KOCH

Heidi Grant Murphy and the Auelos Ensemble

Birtwistle - Entr'actes and Sappho Fragments

To Have and to Hold - Cabaret Songs with the Sequitur Ensemble

Featuring Kristin Nordeval and Dora Ohrenstein

Songs by composers including David Del Tredici, David Lang, Scott Wheeler

and others.

NAXOS

Milken Archive

Straussburg, Robert - Chelm (Chamber Opera)

Karen Longwell, Matthew Chellis, Richard Lalli, Carla Wood

TELARC

Jim Hall, By Arrangement with strings from the Orchestra of St. Lukes, with Pat

Metheny and Joe Lovano.

ZADICK

Washington Square Contemporary Music Society

Chin Yin Chen - Fuse Box and Concerto for Pipa

As a percussionist/timpanist:

ALBANY

New York Chamber Ensemble - Stephen Rogers Radcliff

Rorem - Eleven Studies for Eleven Instruments

ARGO

New York Chamber Symphony - Gerard Schwarz

Kernis - Symphony in Waves

American Composer's Orchestra - Dennis Russell Davies

Beaser - Chorale Variations

BMG

Philharmonia Virtuosi - Richard Kapp

Romantic's Greatest Hits - Compilation

CENTAUR

Music Mobile

Moe - Rip Rap

CRI

Music of Gerald Levinson - Dreamlight for Cello, Piano, and Percussion

DECCA

American Composer's Orchestra - Dennis Russell Davies

Sessions - Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6

DELOS

New York Chamber Symphony - Gerard Schwarz

Diamond - Romeo and Juliet Suite

Voices of Ascension - Dennis Keene

Berlioz - Te Deum

Paul Hostetter, Assistant Professor, Director of Orchestral Studies, Montclair State University

(Recordings con't)

DEUTSCHE-GRAMMAPHON

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Mozart - A Little Light Music

Sarasate - Violin Romance with Gil Shaham

Strauss - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, and Divertimento

Stravinsky - Dance Concertantes

Stravinsky - Suites 1 & 2, and other Ballet Music (GRAMMY AWARD)

Weber - Clarinet Concerto No. 1 and Concertino, with Charles Neidich

ESS.A.Y

Philharmonia Virtuosi - Richard Kapp

Telemann - Concerto for 3 Trumpets and Orchestra and other works for solo trumpets

GOLDEN STRING

All Star Percussion Ensemble - Harold Farberman

A Night at the Opera

Classic as Never Heard Before

NAXOS

Christmas with Paul Plishka

NEW WORLD

The Juilliard Orchestra - Lucas Foss, Leonard Slatkin

Druckman - Chiaroscuro, and Schwantner - Aftertones of Infinity

The Juilliard Orchestra - Otto Werner Mueller

Schuman - In Praise of Shawm

NONESUCH

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Mozart - Piano Concerto K488; Richard Goode

Mozart - Piano Concerto K503; Richard Goode

London Symphony Orchestra -Eric Stern

Music of Alex North - Sparticus

PRO-ARTE

New York Chamber Symphony - Gerard Schwarz

Strauss - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Complete)

POLYGRAM

American Symphony Orchestra - Richard Marx

Kiss Tribute Album

RCA VICTOR

Candide Broadway Cast Album - Eric Stern

SONY

Davis Gaines Sings Broadway

TELARC

American Symphony Orchestra - Leon Botstein

Strauss - Die ägyptische Helena

Strauss - Die Liebe der Danae

WARNER BROTHERS

Concordia Orchestra - Marin Alsop

O'Connor - Violin Concerto

Paul Hostetter, Assistant Professor, Director of Orchestral Studies, Montclair State University

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Faculty, Associate Professor, Orchestra Conductor, William Paterson University 2003-04

Adjunct Faculty, Contemporary Ensemble Conductor/Percussion

New York University 1997-2000

Educational Consultant, Carnegie Hall 1998-01

Collaborated on program development for Link-up series, concerts for

over 50,000 students in the tri-state region.

Faculty, The Julliard School, Music Advancement Program 1991-2001

Co-Founder, Curriculum Developer, Faculty for a program that gives children of color the opportunity to study music intensively with a built in mentorship program at the Juilliard School. Over 30 Faculty members and 100 students, all funded philanthropically.

Educational Consultant, Lincoln Center Institute 1992-1998

Developed programming and presented concerts to 20,000 students in the tri-state

Region.

ARTICLES:

American String Teachers Association NJ Newsletter, Fall 2005

Audition Techniques

New Jersey Youth Symphony Newsletter, Fall 2004

Performance Anxiety Relief

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS and EXTERNAL PANELS

Randolph High School, Workshop on Music Advocacy, January 16, 2007