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Alan AbelPercussion Former Associate Principal Percussionist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Alan Abel retired in September 1997 after 38 years of service. He currently works with graduate students at Temple University and gives master classes at Rutgers University. Abel has compiled two books on orchestral studies for timpani and percussion for G. Schirmer, Inc. and has designed and produced symphonic triangles and bass drum stands that are used throughout the world. Abel has served on the PAS Board of Directors, was inducted into the PAS Hall of Fame in 1998, and is presently Chair of the PAS Symphonic Committee. He has been a faculty member of the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City University, Glassboro State College, and the Philadelphia Settlement Music School. Abel was a part-time member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and, after two years in a U.S. Air Force Band, played in the Oklahoma City Symphony (1953–59). He has given clinics and master classes throughout the U.S., Australia, Germany, and Japan, and is still active in this medium.
Stephen Arthur AllenEuphonium Dr. Stephen Arthur Allen {D.Phil. (Oxon) [PhD Oxford University], GBSM (First Class, Honors), LTCL (performance), ABSM (performance), ABSM (teaching), ALCM (performance), Music Professor, Rider University} came to prominence in the UK as one of the finest euphonium players of his generation. He was awarded the ALCM at age 16 and achieved national distinction in competition, winning the Open section of the British National Solo Championships, and on television. He was awarded a Royal Academy Scholarship by legendary brass band composer Eric Ball, OBE and Geoffrey Brand, conductor of Black Dyke Band. He played principal euphonium with leading British brass bands (including Sun Life (Stanshawe), Carlton Main, City of Coventry, Birmingham School of Music, William Davis, Newham) under the batons of Major Peter Parkes, James Watson and Edward Gregson. In 2004 he founded the Princeton Brass Band and in 2008 brought the first North American Brass Band Association (NABBA) trophy back to New Jersey in the history of that organization, which he also serves on the Board of Directors. Additionally Dr. Allen is a world authority in the operas and music of Benjamin Britten. He is widely published and has articles on the Beatles, Radiohead and Burton’s Batman (1989) in the works. He is also Music Professor at Rider University where he teaches a wide range of courses.
Email: sallen@rider.edu 
Shmuel AshkenasiViolin Israeli violinist Shmuel Ashkenasi studied with Ilona Feher and Efrem Zimbalist. He captured top prizes at the 1962 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Russia, the Merriweather Post Competition in Washington, and the Queen Elizabeth Competition in Belgium. As a soloist, he has toured the Soviet Union twice and concertizes every year throughout Europe, Israel and the Far East. He has performed with American orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, National Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, Vienna Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, and the orchestras of Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Zurich, Rotterdam, Geneva and Stockholm. Among his solo recordings are the Paganini Violin Concertos No. 1 and No. 2 with the Vienna Symphony, the two Beethoven Romances, and the Mozart A Major Concerto. In 1969, Ashkenasi formed the Vermeer Quartet at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont and has remained as its first violinist throughout the quartet's career. The Vermeer Quartet held residencies at Northern Illinois University and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England. Its discography includes works of Beethoven, Bartok, Dvorak, Haydn (a Grammy- nominated recording of the Seven Last Words of Christ), Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and Verdi. Ashkenasi is also a noted pedagogue, currently holding the posts at the Musikhochschule Lübeck in Lübeck Germany, the Chicago College of Performing Arts, and the Curtis Institute of Music.
Alan BaerTuba Alan Baer joined the New York Philharmonic on June 21, 2004, as Principal Tuba. He was formerly principal tuba with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, and Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. His other performing credits include recordings with The Cleveland Orchestra led by Vladimir Ashkenazy, performances with the Peninsula Music Festival of Wisconsin, New Orleans Symphony, Los Angeles Concert Orchestra, Ojai Festival Orchestra (California), Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed as a featured soloist, touring several countries in Europe, including Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and France. Mr. Baer began his undergraduate work at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with Dr. Gary Bird. He completed his bachelor of music degree with Ronald Bishop at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and has done graduate work at the University of Southern California, Cleveland Institute of Music, and California State University, Long Beach, where he studied with Tommy Johnson. While in Long Beach, Mr. Baer taught at California State University, where he also directed the university tuba ensemble and the brass choir. In Milwaukee, Mr. Baer was adjunct professor of tuba and euphonium at the University of Wisconsin and director of the Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble. Alan currently serves on the faculty of the Mannes College of Music in New York City. 
William BerzMusic Education, Instrumental Conducting Dr. William Berz is Professor of Music at the Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He teaches classes in music education and conducting, and has conducted a wide variety of performance ensembles, including bands, orchestras, contemporary music groups, and opera. He has premiered many new works for winds, and has won the praise of many distinguished composers, including Charles Wuorinen, Roger Nixon, Eric Whitacre, Martin Ellerby, Adam Gorb, David Holsinger, Jack Stamp, Jonathan Newman, David Gillingham, Jan Van der Roost, Michael Daugherty, Frank Ticheli, Norman Dello Joio, and H. Owen Reed. Dr. Berz served as Music Director and Conductor of the New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra from 1988 until 1994. From 1984 until 1989, he was Assistant Conductor of The Jupiter Symphony and Naumburg Orchestra, both of New York City. He conducted the New Jersey State Youth Orchestra from 1984 until 1988. In addition to his work as a conductor, he is active as a researcher and writer. He has articles published in a number of leading academic publications. He is currently the editor of the WASBE Journal. In 1993, Dr. Berz was given an Outstanding Teacher Award by the Rutgers College Parents Association, and in 1994-1995 he was a Lilly Endowment Fellow. He served as Chair of the Music Department from 1994 until 2002 and Acting Dean of the Mason Gross School of the Arts in 1997.
Office: Music Building 115 | Phone: 732-932-8781 
Antonius BittmannDepartment Chairman, Music history, organ Antonius Bittmann, Department Chair, is in demand as guest lecturer, recitalist, and organ teacher at universities across the US. He holds a Ph.D. (Musicology), a D.M.A. (Organ), and an M.M. (Harpsichord) from the Eastman School of Music, as well as a B.M. and an M.M. (Organ) from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany. A founding member of the Internationale Max-Reger-Gesellschaft, Professor Bittmann has presented papers at national and international conferences and published articles in major music journals. His book, Max Reger and Historicist Modernisms (Koerner, 2004), presents the first comprehensive English-language account of the composer’s œuvre. As an organist, Professor Bittmann has received prizes and awards, including first prize at the Internationale Orgelwoche Nürnberg, and has been engaged for recitals in Europe and Japan. University Organist of Rutgers University, he is featured on several CDs and has recorded for German radio stations. His most recent CD, Peace of Heart (Songburst SBCD-1), features organ-accompanied sacred songs by a variety of American and European composers, including a song written by himself. In addition to his Rutgers duties, Professor Bittmann serves as visiting evaluator in institutional accreditation reviews conducted by the National Association of Schools of Music.
Office: Music Building 105 | Phone: 732-932-8860 
Jonathan BlumenfeldOboe Jonathan Blumenfeld has been a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1986. Previously he was Principal Oboist of the Savannah Symphony. He is a graduate of Haverford College and the Curtis Institute of Music where he was a student of John de Lancie. He has also studied with Richard Woodhams at Temple University where he is currently a member of the oboe faculty, and John Mack at the Blossom Music Festival, in addition to participating in the Spoleto and Berkshire Music Festivals. Four CDs are available featuring performances by Jonathan Blumenfeld, including New Music for Oboe. 
Darryl J. BottMusic Education, Symphony Band Mr. Darryl Bott teaches classes in instrumental music education and undergraduate conducting as well as serving as the coordinator of the student teaching program for the music education program. Mr. Bott has decades of teaching experience in the public schools of New Jersey, recently as the District Lead Teacher for Performing Arts and Director of Bands at Roxbury High School. Ensembles under his direction have received consistent superior ratings at local and out of state competitions and have also performed at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center. The concert program also performed with several outstanding artists including Mr. Fred Mills, Mr. Eddie Daniels and most recently The Boston Brass. During Mr. Bott’s tenure, the Roxbury High School Instrumental Program also commissioned two symphonies for wind band, Dr. Andrew Boysen Jr’s Symphony #3 JFK and the British composer Robert Farnon’s Wind Symphony: The Gaels. Mr. Bott has received the New Jersey Governor’s Teaching Award, the Morris County Teacher’s Recognition Award, and the Roxbury Township nominee for the Princeton University’s Teaching Award. Mr. Bott has also served as the guest conductor for several honors ensembles in the State of New Jersey and the Interlochen Arts Academy Band. Mr. Bott holds a Bachelors Degree in Music Education and received his Masters in Wind Conducting from Rutgers University.
Office: Art History 210 | Phone: 732-932-5093 
Ralph BowenJazz saxophone, Jazz theory, Jazz ensemble Mr. Bowen received his B.M. and M.M. from Rutgers. He has performed with Herbie Hancock, Art Blakey, Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, David Baker, and his own group, OTB, and has recorded extensively. In addition to jazz saxophone he teaches jazz theory, and he directs the Rutgers Jazz Ensemble.
Office: Rehearsal Hall 105 | Phone: 732-932-8307 
Mark A. BoyleChoral Conducting Mark A. Boyle, conductor, tenor, and composer, is an Adjunct Professor of Music and choral conducting doctoral student at Rutgers University. Originally from Connecticut, Boyle attended Susquehanna University where he studied choral music and choral conducting with Cyril Stretansky. After 5 years in the United States Navy, during which time he had the privilege of conducting the Bluejackets Memorial Choir, earning a Letter of Commendation, Boyle continued his vocal studies at Ball State University, earning a BM in Voice Performance and a MM in Choral Conducting. No stranger to the operatic stage, he has performed several roles, including Gabriel von Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, and most recently the lead character of Benny in Jody Nagel's new opera, 53rd Street. Currently a student of Dr. Patrick Gardner, Boyle has studied conducting with Dr. Jeffrey Pappas, Dr. Jeffrey Carter, Dr. Robert Kvam, Dr. Douglas Amman, and Dr. Donald Neuen. He conducts the Rutgers University Choir.
Email: mab@markaboyle.com 
Karina BrukPiano-Related Studies, Coordinator of Piano Lab, Director of Chamber Music Dr. Bruk has performed solo recitals and chamber music throughout the local area. She has also performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Her Doctoral Treatise "Twentieth-Century Well-Tempered Clavier: Preludes and Fugues, opus 87, of Dmitry Shostakovich" was presented at the 2006 International Conference on Arts and Humanimanities in Honolulu, Hawaii. Dr. Bruk has been a recipient of numerous awards; among them the Genia Robinor Award for Teaching Excellence presented by the Piano Teachers Society of America. She also holds a Chair of Piano Department position at the Newark School of the Arts, Newark, NJ, and maintains a private piano studio in South Orange, NJ. B.M., M.M.- Manhattan School of Music, D.M.A.- Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.
Email: karinabruk@gmail.com 
Eduardo ChamaVoice Bass-baritone Eduardo Chama has received resounding recognition for his work on both the operatic and concert stages of the world. As Don Pasquale, the Seattle Times declares "Eduardo Chama was born to sing the title role. The Argentine bass-baritone...does heroic work on every level." The Calgary Herald agrees, stating after performances s of Le Nozze di Figaro, "Argentine bass- baritone Eduardo Chama sang the title role of Figaro in an easy, stylish way, his voice strong and deep enough for the bass notes." Mr. Chama received the Richard F. Gold Debut Artist award at New York City Opera in 1997. He made his New York City Opera debut as Leporello in Don Giovanni during the 1996–97 season.
Office: Rehearsal 214 | Phone: 646-226-4440 
Choong-Jin (CJ) ChangViola A native of Seoul, Korea, Choong-Jin (CJ) Chang joined The Philadelphia Orchestra as associate principal viola in November 1994 and became principal viola in April 2006. He made his performance debut as a 12-year-old violinist with the Seoul Philharmonic as winner of the grand prize in Korea’s Yook Young National Competition. In 1981, at the age of 13, he moved to the United States to attend the Juilliard School. He subsequently studied in Philadelphia at the Esther Boyer College of Music of Temple University and finally at the Curtis Institute of Music, from which he received degrees in both violin and viola. His primary teachers were Jascha Brodsky and retired Philadelphia Orchestra Principal Viola Joseph de Pasquale. Alongside his extensive performing activities, Mr. Chang is a respected teacher on both violin and viola. Among his former pupils are current members of The Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as several winners of major competitions. 
Gerald ChenowethComposition/Theory Prof. Chenoweth has degrees from the University of Massachusetts (B.M. and M.M.) and the University of Iowa (Ph.D.). His works have been performed extensively in this country and Europe, and he has conducted contemporary music ensembles at Rutgers and the University of Iowa. His compositions have been recorded for CRI, the Smithsonian Collections of Recordings, and Access.
Office: Graduate Music House 200A | Phone: 732-932-8813 
Richard ChrismanComposition/Theory Richard Chrisman is current Director of the Graduate Programs in Music: the Master of Music, the Artist Diploma, and Doctoral of Music Arts in the Mason Gross School of the Arts; and the Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in musicology and in compostion/theory for the Graduate School of Rutgers University. He graduated from Yale with a PhD in music theory, and now devotes most of his time toward composition.
Office: Music 114 | Phone: 732-932-9272 
Lenuta CiuleiViolin Lenuta Ciulei has an unusually versatile repertoire which features masterworks from early Baroque to the latest contemporary music. Acclaimed in 22 countries on four continents, the Romanian-born violinist has been praised by public and critics alike for the very fine balance between her perfect technique, supreme accuracy, emotion and imagination.
Office: Music Building | Phone: 732-932-9302 
Timothy CobbDouble Bass Timothy Cobb joined the Mason Gross faculty in 2006 as a Visiting Artist. He teaches the double bass studio in collaboration with Lou Kosma. In addition to serving as principal bass of the Met Orchestra and Double Bass Faculty Chair at the Juilliard School, Mr. Cobb maintains a busy schedule of chamber collaborations and solo appearances. Mr. Cobb frequently performs with Quartets such as the Emerson, Guarneri, Belcea, Leipzing and St.Lawrence, as well as artists such as Pincas Zukerman, Yefim Bronfman, James Levine, and Christian Zacharias, among many others. Mr. Cobb’s festival appearances include most of the major summer festivals such as the Bridgehampton, Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, Sarasota, Tanglewood among many others. Mr. Cobb can be heard on all Met recordings from 1986 as well as a 2003 Grammy-nominated ‘L’Histoire du Soldat’ with the Harmonie Wind Ensemble of New York on Koch records. He is a former member of the Chicago Symphony, and serves on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, Purchase College (SUNY), as well as Juilliard.
Paul CohenSaxophone strives to bring the saxophone into the mainstream of classical music performance. Cohen is active as a performer, teacher, historian, musicologist and author. He has appeared and recorded with many of the nation's top symphonies and professional ensembles, and has published numerous articles on saxophone literature and history. Since 1985 he has authored the informative "Vintage Saxophone Revisited" column in the Saxophone Journal. Recently he has recorded for Hyperion, Arizona Press, and the "Nine Stellar Pieces" CD. Recent concerts include performances with NJ Pops, Garden State Arts Wind Ensemble, Goldman Band, Massachussatts Symphony, Edison Arts Orchestra, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, New York Virtuosi Wayne Chamber Orchestra, New Hudson Saxophone Quartet, Long Island Philarharmonic, Plainfield Symphony, International WASBE conference, Charletson Symphony Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and Composer's Concordance.
Office: Music Building | Phone: 732-932-9302 
Stanley CowellJazz piano a brilliant, classically trained pianist and composer, is one of the greatest living exponents of jazz. He performs professionally -- as a solo pianist and in ensemble formations from duo to orchestra -- in a variety of venues, from jazz club to concert hall, often utilizing electronic sounds and African finger piano. He has an impressive list of recordings as both a composer and pianist, performing with such artists as Sonny Rollins, Clifford Jordan, Oliver Nelson, Donald Byrd, Roy Haynes, Richard Davis, Art Pepper, Jimmy Heath and many more. His formal training in music is extensive: a Bachelor's degree in music from Oberlin and a Master of Music from University of Michigan. He's also studied at the Mozarteum Akademie in Salzburg and has done graduate work at Wichita State and University of Southern California.
Office: Music 206 | Phone: 732-932-8713 
Christopher DollComposition/Theory Christopher Doll specializes in the analysis of recent popular and art music (especially in regard to tonality), the analysis of film music, metatheory, and composition. He earned degrees at Columbia University (Ph.D. with distinction), the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (M.M.), and Case Western Reserve University (B.A.), and undertook additional graduate studies at SUNY Stony Brook.
Office: Graduate Music House 200B | Phone: 732-932-8813 
Daniel EpsteinPiano Pianist Daniel Epstein made his orchestral debut with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1973. A graduate of the Juilliard School, where he studied with Adele Marcus, he was presented in his Carnegie Hall debut recital by the Concert Artists Guild. Winner of many awards and prizes including the Kosciusczko Chopin Award, the National Arts Club Prize, and the Prix Alex de Vries in Paris, Epstein has appeared as guest soloist with major symphony orchestras, and has given recitals in major cities throughout the world, complemented by master classes and intensive seminars for pianists. As the pianist and founding member of the famed Raphael Trio since 1975, Daniel Epstein has performed virtually entire piano trio repertoire. He has collaborated with many renowned string quartets, including the Ying, American, Chiara, New Zealand, and Talich as well as with the members of the Juilliard, Guarneri and many other distinguished chamber musicians and soloists. Daniel Epstein is a member of the piano faculties of Manhattan School of Music (New York) and Rutgers University (New Jersey) and is the co-founder/director of the Raphael Trio Chamber Music Workshop in Wilton, New Hampshire.
Email: daniel.epstein@earthlink.net 
Bart FellerFlute Bart Feller is Principal Flute of the New York City Opera and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. He has also appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Bargemusic and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where his teachers included Julius Baker and John Krell; he has also worked extensively with Keith Underwood. Among the summer festivals he has participated in are the Marlboro Music Festival, OK Mozart International Festival, Colorado College Chamber Music Festival, Napa Valley Chamber Music Festival, and the Grand Teton Music Festival. He teaches at Rutgers University/Mason Gross School of the Arts, and the Pre-College Division of The Juilliard School.
Office: Music Building | Phone: 732-932-8791 
Charles FussellTheory, Composition Fussell's works include five symphonies; Wilde, a symphony for baritone and orchestra, was runner-up for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize. His music is programmed frequently by Boston ensembles, in particular Collage New Music, The Cantata Singers, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Fussell attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he worked with Thomas Canning and Bernard Rogers, and studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, working with Boris Blacher. While in Germany, he also attended the Bayreuth Masterclasses of Frideland Wagner. He later was assistant to and close friend of composer Virgil Thomson. He has received a citation and award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, grants from the Ford Foundation and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and a Fulbright Fellowship. Fussell's discography includes Specimen Days and Being Music, two commissions for the 1992 Walt Whitman Centennial (Koch Records), Symphony No. 5, The Astronaut's Tale, and Right River, Concerto for Cello solo and String Orchestra (Albany Records). Fussell has served on the faculty of Boston University and Rutgers University, and is active as vice president of the Virgil Thomson Foundation.
Office: Music Building | Phone: 732-932-9302 
Patrick GardnerChoral Conducting Received his undergraduate degree in voice from California State University at Hayward and his M.M. and D.M.A. in choral conducting from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to moving to New York City to direct the Riverside Choral Society he taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Texas at Austin. The Riverside Choral Society, which often performs as the chorus for the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, presents numerous major choral orchestral works each year in Manhattan. His choirs have given many world premieres. He is also active as guest conductor, lecturer, and adjudicator. At Rutgers he is Director of Choral Activities, conducts the Rutgers Kirkpatrick Choir and the Rutgers University Glee Club and teaches both undergraduate and graduate level conducting. He has recorded for Folkways, Albany, and Ethereal records.
Office: Music 214 | Phone: 732-932-1799 
Pamela GilmoreOpera Workshop/Opera director has taught at the Israeli Vocal Arts Institute, Northwestern University, the Mannes College of Music, Brooklyn College Conservatory and the Columbia University Opera Ensemble, as well as the Metropolitan Opera and the Metropolitan Opera Guild Competition, and as head coach of the Spoleto Vocal Arts Symposium. An active recitalist, she has maintained a private studio in Manhattan since 1984. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Mount Holyoke College and holds a Master's degree from the Catholic University of America.
Office: Levin 207 | Phone: 732-932-1039 
Barbara González-PalmerPiano, Collaborative arts specialist enjoys an international performing career. Holding degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and The Juilliard School, she has performed in concert with Barry Tuckwell, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Richard Zeller, Peter Damm, Joseph Genualdi, and varied artists associated with the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Symphony, American Brass Quintet, New York Philharmonic, New York City Opera, Stuttgart Opera, and other organizations of note. Ms. González-Palmer holds the office of Regional Governor in the National Opera Association and is Director of the Collaborative Piano Program at Rutgers University.
Office: Music Building 204 | Phone: 732-932-9183 
Floyd GraveMusic history Trained at the Eastman School of Music (B.Mus. in Theory) and New York University (M.A. and Ph.D. in Musicology), Prof. Grave serves as co-editor of one of the most widely read, peer-reviewed journals in the field, The Journal of Musicology, published by the University of California Press. A specialist in eighteenth-century instrumental music, theory, and aesthetics, he has written many articles and book reviews for major scholarly journals in the United States and Europe, including the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music Theory Spectrum, Music Review, Eighteenth-Century Music, and Ad Parnassum. He is also a contributing author for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, first and second editions. His books, coauthored with Margaret Grupp Grave, include In Praise of Harmony: The Teachings of Abbé Georg Joseph Vogler (University of Nebraska Press, 1987), Franz Joseph Haydn: A Guide to Research (Garland Publishing, 1990), and, most recently, The String Quartets of Joseph Haydn (Oxford University Press, 2006). His accomplishments as a music editor include editions of Abbé Vogler’s Pièces de clavecin and Zwei und dreisig Präludien (A-R Editions, 1986) and ballet-theater works by Vogler and his Mannheim colleague Christian Cannabich (A-R Editions, 1996). The Graves are currently writing a comprehensive study of of Mozart’s concertos.
Office: Graduate Music House 200D | Phone: 732-932-8849 
Rhonda S. HackworthMusic Education, Rutgers Children's Choir Dr. Hackworth is assistant professor of music at Mason Gross School of the Arts where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in music education and serves as artistic director of the Rutgers Children’s Choir. She received a Ph.D. in music education/education at the University of Missouri- Kansas City Conservatory of Music and also holds an M.M. in vocal performance. Before joining the Rutgers faculty, Dr. Hackworth taught at Syracuse University, UMKC, and served as associate conductor of the Kansas City Children’s Choir. Her primary research interest is vocal health for music teachers. She has published articles in International Journal of Music Education, Journal of Music Teacher Education, UPDATE: Applications of Research in Music Education, and Missouri Journal of Research in Music Education. Dr. Hackworth actively presents research at international, national, and state conferences, most recently at the International Society for Music Education (ISME) World Conference in Bologna, Italy. As an alto soloist, she has performed Te Deum (Brückner), Messiah (Handel), Lord Nelson Mass (Haydn), Requiem and Missa Brevis, K. 192. (Mozart), Christmas Oratorio (Saint-Saëns), Magnificat (Vivaldi), and numerous Bach cantatas. She has also performed the roles of Sorceress (Dido & Aeneas) and Third Lady (The Magic Flute). Dr. Hackworth’s most enjoyable roles, however, are wife to Matt and mother to Noah.
Office: Art History 212 | Phone: 732-932-1955 
Rufus HallmarkMusic History Hallmark joined the Rutgers faculty in 2002 and served as Chair of the Music Department till 2005. He was educated at Davidson College (B.A., Music), Boston University (M.A., Musicology), and Princeton (Ph.D., Musicology), and previously taught at Brown, M.I.T., College of the Holy Cross, and The Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, CUNY. Hallmark’s dissertation, "The Genesis of Schumann's Dichterliebe" on the sketches for Robert Schumann’s song cycle, was published as a book. He has authored many other articles on the songs of Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. He is the editor of, and a contributor to, "German Lieder in the Nineteenth Century" (1996; second revised edition 2009). He is preparing Schumann's famous cycles "Frauenliebe und Leben" and "Dichterliebe" for the new complete critical edition of Schumann’s works and writing a book on “Frauenliebe” for Cambridge Music Handbooks. He has also written on the "Songs of Travel" of Ralph Vaughan Williams. He is a member OF the American Musicological Society and served as its Secretary (2001-2007). Hallmark is also a singer (tenor); he has sung the Mozart roles of Tamino and Pedrillo, Beethoven's Jaquino, the Evangelist in Bach's St. John Passion, Schumann's "Dichterliebe," Schubert’s "Winterreise," and Britten’s "Serenade."
Office: Grad Music House 200C | Phone: 732-932-8849 
Conrad HerwigJazz Trombone New York jazz trombonist Conrad Herwig has recorded seventeen albums as a leader. His latest release on Half Note Records, "Another Kind of Blue: The Latin Side of Miles Davis" was recorded live at the Blue Note Jazz Club in NYC. With special guests Paquito D'Rivera, Dave Valentin, and Brian Lynch this recording received a 2005 GRAMMY nomination. This CD is the long awaited follow up to the 1998 Grammy-nominated "Latin Side of John Coltrane". His other recent solo recordings include "Obligation", "Que Viva Coltrane", co-led with Brian Lynch, and "Heart of Darkness" on Criss Cross Records, which received 4 1/2 stars in Downbeat Magazine. He has also been voted #1 Jazz Trombone(TDWR) in the 1998, 1999, and 2002 Downbeat International Jazz Critic's Poll. Conrad has been a featured member in the Joe Lovano Nonet (featured as a soloist on Lovano's Grammy Award winning "52nd St. Themes"), Tom Harrell's Septet and Big Band, and the Joe Henderson Sextet. Conrad has also performed and recorded with Eddie Palmieri's La Perfecta II and Afro-Caribbean-Jazz Octet, Paquito D'Rivera's Havana-New York Connection, and the Mingus Big Band (often serving as musical director). Herwig is a recipient of performance and teaching grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and is currently Professor of Jazz Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Conrad has been on the Board of Directors of the International Trombone Association. An in-demand jazz educator, Conrad Herwig is a Conn-Selmer clinician and performs on Bach Stradivarius trombones, as well as composing and arranging exclusively using Sibelius Music Notation software.
Office: RHL 209A | Phone: 732-932-3177 
Kaoru HinataFlute Kaoru Hinata has performed with the New Jersey Symphony, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra, New Haven Symphony, Albany Symphony, the Berkshire Opera Orchestra, and has been a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Ms. Hinata was the first prize winner of the Lawrence Beauregard Competition in Canada and the second prize winner in the Myrna Brown Competition in Texas. She has been featured as soloist with the Norfolk Festival Chamber Orchestra and the New York Choral Society Symphony, and has premiered flute works by Christopher Theofanidis and Dan Sonenberg. She holds an M.M. and Artist Diploma from Yale University and a B.M. from Northwestern University, and her teachers include Ransom Wilson, Walfrid Kujala, and Keith Underwood.
Office: Music Building | Phone: 732-932-9302 
Paul HoffmannPiano studied with Cecile Genhart, Brooks Smith, and Leon Fleisher at the Eastman School of Music and The Peabody Conservatory. He is a specialist in 20th-century music and has recorded for Capstone, Orion, CRI, Northeastern, Composers Guild of New Jersey, Contemporary Record Society, O.O. Discs, Spectrum, and Vienna Modern Masters labels, and numerous foreign radio stations. At Rutgers he teaches piano and chamber music and directs HELIX!, the contemporary music ensemble at Rutgers, which he founded in 1990. Hoffmann also performs with Tom Goldstein, percussionist, as the Hoffmann/Goldstein Duo.
Office: Music 213 | Phone: 732-932-8839 
Margaret HollandString Techniques Margaret Holland loves to perform and teach. She teaches strings at a private school in South Jersey, viola and cello from her studio, and is an active freelance musician. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Mann Music Center, and Verizon Hall in Philadelphia. She holds a degree in cello performance from Temple University, where she studied with the late Elsa Hilger from the Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as private study with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Juilliard faculty. She holds an M.B.A. from Temple University, and a Teaching Certificate in Music Education from Chestnut Hill College. She leads the Bella Corda Chamber Music Groups.
Nathan HughesOboe Nathan Hughes is Principal Oboe of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He previously served as principal oboe of the Seattle Symphony and as acting associate principal oboe of the San Francisco Symphony. In addition, Hughes has performed as guest principal oboe of the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics as well as the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, and Baltimore. A prolific chamber musician, Hughes has performed with the Met Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie Hall as well as with the Philadelphia and Seattle Chamber Music Societies. He has also made appearances at the Aspen, Bridgehampton, Lucerne, Marlboro, Salzburg, Santa Fe, Sarasota, Spoleto, and Tanglewood festivals. A frequent soloist, Hughes has been featured in concertos with the Met Chamber Ensemble, Seattle Symphony, Savannah Symphony, Mainly Mozart Orchestra, Seattle Chamber Orchestra, National Repertory Orchestra, Verbier Festival Orchestra and the Sinfonietta Polonia in Poland. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Hughes is on the faculty of The Juilliard School and the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. He previously taught at the University of Washington and has given master classes at the New World Symphony, San Francisco Conservatory as well as the Poznan Academy in Poland. He holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music where he was awarded the 2008 Alumni Achievement Award and The Juilliard School. His teachers have included John Mack, Elaine Douvas and John de Lancie.
Maureen HurdClarinet Maureen Hurd has appeared as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral clarinetist in concerts throughout Europe, Asia and North America. Highlights include performances at the 2007 and 2005 International Clarinet Association ClarinetFests® in Vancouver, Canada and in Japan as well as appearances in South Korea, France, England, and Mexico City, Mexico. Performances of contemporary chamber music include appearances at New York’s Merkin Hall and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in Alice Tully Hall as well as a Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk radio broadcast of American music in Germany and performances of works composed by her husband Evan Hause. In spring of 2009 she looks forward to the release of her recording of Michael Daugherty’s Brooklyn Bridge with the Rutgers Wind Ensemble, and her recording from summer 2008 with the Lancaster Festival Chamber Orchestra will be released on Marquis records soon as well. She looks forward to performing for the second time at the Skaneateles Festival in August 2008. She earned all of her graduate degrees including DMA from the Yale School of Music where she worked with materials in the Benny Goodman Papers of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library. Her Goodman research has also taken her to the Library of Congress, the Morgan Library, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center where in November 2007 she gave a lecture-recital featuring works from the Library’s Benny Goodman Collection. In 2001 she was a prizewinner in the International Clarinet Association (ICA) Research Presentation Competition for her Benny Goodman research and lecture-recital presented at the ICA ClarinetFest® in New Orleans, and she has written articles on this subject for The Clarinet, journal of the ICA. She studied with David Shifrin, Joseph Messenger, Charles Neidich, and Ayako Oshima. Hurd frequently performs recitals, master classes, lectures and clinics at clarinet festivals, universities and conferences throughout the United States and abroad. She is a Conn-Selmer Artist, playing Selmer Paris Signature Clarinets.
Office: Music 215 | Phone: 732-932-8862 
Kynan JohnsDirector of Orchestras Kynan Johns, regarded as one of the leading conductors of his generation combines his position as Director of Orchestras at Rutgers University with being Director Assistente at the Palau de les Arts, 'Reina Sofia', Valencia, Spain to Maestros Maazel and Mehta. A native of Australia, Maestro Johns has conducted leading orchestras throughout the world including amongst many others the Israel Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Chinese National Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Symphony and the Sydney and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras. In the field of Opera he has recently conducted at La Scala, Maazel’s 1984 and Don Giovanni, Madame Butterfly and Don Carlos in Valencia, working with Domingo, Frittoli, Wyn-Rogers and Koerl. Maestro Johns has been the recipient of prizes in many international conducting competitions, including the Dimitris Mitropoulos International Conducting competition and the Maazel/Vilar Conducting competition. The Rutgers Symphony Orchestra, under Maestro Johns released their first commercial CD of Flagello’s Saxophone Quartet Concerto under the Naxos label in 2006.
Office: Levin 205 | Phone: 732-932-1040 
Douglas JohnsonMusic history Prof. Johnson has degrees from Hamilton College (B.A.) and the University of California-Berkeley (M.A. and Ph.D.). He works on topics in 18th- and 19th- century music and has published widely on Beethoven, with special concentration on the composer's sketchbooks. He co-authored The Beethoven Sketchbooks with Alan Tyson and Robert Winter, which won the Otto Kinkeldey Award for the best book in musicology, presented by the American Musicological Society in 1986.
Office: Music 106 | Phone: 732-932-9220 
Vic JurisJazz guitar Inspired by Chuck Berry, Vic Juris taught himself to play guitar, and in his mid-teens was appearing with Rock and R&B bands. But soon he discovered jazz and classical guitar music. This led to a wide range of musical experiences. He has worked with artists from Birelli LaGrene to Larry Coryell. He has appeared on almost 40 CDs. His own recordings range from Road Song (Muse) to his latest CDs Night Tripper and Pastels (Steeple Chase).
Office: Music Annex 005 | Phone: 732-932-9302 
Taina KatajaSoprano (Voice) Finnish soprano TAINA KATAJA has received critical acclaim for performance of repertoire ranging from early to modern music. A top prize winner in numerous competitions in her native Finland and in Sweden, she has been soloist in many premiere performances and recordings of choral works by prominent contemporary Finnish composers, including Einojuhani Rautavaara, Aulis Sallinen, and Joonas Kokkonen. She has produced and performed programs for Finnish National Television as well as Finnish, Austrian (ORF), and German radio networks. She has been featured as soloist in festivals throughout Europe and with ensembles in Washington, Baltimore, and New York. A member of NYSTA and NATS, Ms. Kataja presented workshops at the NATS National Voice Conference in Philadelphia in 2000 and at the Fifth International Congress of Voice Teachers (5ICVT) in Helsinki in 2001, sharing the program with Birgit Nilsson and Jorma Hynninen. Prior to joining the voice faculty at Rutgers, Ms. Kataja served on the faculty of Goucher College in Baltimore. She has also taught voice with the Spoleto Vocal Arts Symposium in Spoleto, Italy. Ms. Kataja holds degrees in Voice Performance, Voice Pedagogy, and Music Education from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and a Diploma with Distinction in Lied and Oratorio from the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna as a pupil of Kmsgr. Hans Hotter. Additionally, Ms. Kataja is trained in vocology and has completed vocology internships. In addition to her fact-based voice teaching, she also rehabilitates injured singing voices.
Office: Rehearsal 214 | Phone: 732-932-8425 
Brian KatonaConducting and Musicianship Brian Katona is a conductor, keyboardist and composer in the greater New York area. He has conducted professional and collegiate orchestras as well as a variety of choruses in Los Angeles, the East Coast and Midwest. His ensembles have performed at the Hollywood Bowl, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and various other Los Angeles venues. Dr. Katona's compositions have been performed at the Aspen Music Festival, Rutgers University and throughout the Los Angeles area. His music has appeared on television and in film. Dr. Katona currently the associate conductor of the Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestra where he has conducted and played in the Patriot's Theater at Trenton's War Memorial. He is also the music director of the Highland Park Community Chorus and teaches conducting and musicianship courses at Rutgers University. 
Andrew KirkmanMusic history Dr. Kirkman has a B.A. degree from Durham University and an M.Mus. and Ph.D. from Kings College, London. He has published and lectured widely on music of the 15th century. He has also directed recordings of Masses by Dufay for Hyperion Records, one of which won a Gramophone award for 1999. His book The Three- Voice Mass in the Later Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries: Style, Distribution and Case Studies is published by Garland. At Rutgers he directs the Collegium Musicum.
Office: GMH 200F | Phone: 732-932-6873 
David KraussTrumpet David Krauss was appointed Principal Trumpet of The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in 2001. A native of New York, he earned both Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees from the Juilliard School as a student of William Vacchiano and Chris Gekker. Further studies with James Pandolfi and Wynton Marsalis. Prior to joining the MET, he performed with a variety of ensembles in and around New York City including The Orchestra of St. Lukes, Orpheus, New Jersey Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, New England Bach Festival Orchestra and on several Broadway shows. He has filled in as guest Principal Trumpet with The Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. As a chamber musician he has performed at the Marlboro Music Festival, Bridgehampton Music Festival, Saito Kinen Festival, and as part of the MET Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie Hall with James Levine.
Min KwonPiano B.M. Curtis Institute of Music; M.M. and D.M.A.The Juilliard School; post-doctoral studies, University of Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria. A Steinway Artist, Min Kwon is in demand around the world as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. Her professional engagements have taken her to 62 countries on 7 continents and to all 50 states in the US, including such venues as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, the United Nations in New York, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Seoul Arts Center in Korea, BorseSaal in Vienna, Klementinum in Prague, and to the festivals of Aspen, Ravinia, Cape & Islands, Caramoor, Colmar (France), Salzburg and Altenburg (Austria), Kuhmo (Finland), Interlaken (Switzerland), Freiburg (Germany), and Prague (Czech Republic). Recent performance highlights include critically acclaimed, a sold-out recital at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, and at London and Sydney's Steinway Hall, Singapore's National University, as well as appearances in Australia, Curacao, Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy, Malaysia, and Norway. Dr. Kwon has given over 200 recitals, workshops, and master classes throughout the United States under the auspices of CAMI Community Concerts and has recorded for BMG/RCA Red Seal and MSR Classics. She is regularly invited to teach by major institutions and festivals around the world, among them the Royal College of Music in London, Shanghai Conservatory and Beijing Central Conservatory in China, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory in Singapore, Academy of Fine Arts and National University in Hong Kong, Vladmir Feltsman's Summerfest in New Paltz, New York, AMEROPA International Festival in Prague, Positano International Festival in Italy, and Altenburg Music Akademie and MozartFest in Austria. The Grand Prize winner of Korea’s KBS Emerging Artists Award in 1995, Min Kwon was also the recipient of The Juilliard School’s Gina Bachauer International Piano Awards, school’s highest award given to a pianist, and has garnered more than two dozen top prizes in national and international competitions of the US, Italy, Scotland, and Spain.
Office: Music 216 | Phone: 732-932-6531 
Victor LewisJazz Drums As a child, Victor Lewis studied cello, piano and finally drums, doing his first home town gigs in Omaha, Nebraska at age 15. The youngster was encouraged by such as Buster Williams and Billy Hart to make the move to New York where in 1974 he began a quick ascension to prominence. Victor was the first-call drummer for masters like Joe Farrell, Dexter Gordon, and Hubert Laws and started long-time associations with Woody Shaw, Carla Bley, David Sanborn, Kenny Barron, Bobby Watson, and Stan Getz. One of the leading drummers of our time, Victor also has a second reputation as a dedicated composer and smart bandleader.
Office: Rehearsal 209 | Phone: 732-932-9302 
Douglas LundeenHorn Douglas Lundeen received his D.M.A. from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of music. He has played principal horn with orchestras in Costa Rica, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh, is principal horn of the Princeton Symphony, and has played principal horn for the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, and the Riverside Symphonia, as well as playing on Broadway with "Jeckyll and Hyde" and "Aida. Dr. Lundeen won first prize for solo natural horn in the 1987 American Horn Competition. Since then he has appeared as soloist with orchestras in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and New Jersey, and has been a recitalist at workshops of the International Horn Society and the International Early Brass Society. He has played principal horn with original instrument orchestras in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Vancouver and Washington, D. C.. His recordings can be found on the Sony, Newport Classics, Musical Heritage Society, Koch and Centaur labels. hear Performance Samples
Office: Levin Theater 203 | Phone: 732-932-3616 
Richard MetzgerOnline Learning Metzger has a B.F.A. from the Pennsylvania State University (string performance), an M.A. from Marywood University (musicology), and a Ph.D. from Rutgers (musicology). His publications include two critical editions, Chansons of the Sixteenth Century for Classical Guitar: Franco-Flemish and Parisian Chansons Printed by Attaingnant and French Clavecin Music for Guitar. Editions of the Willoughby and Marsh lute manuscripts, major manuscripts of the late English Renaissance, are forthcoming. As a classical musician, he performed on solo guitar and lute, including tours as the recipient of grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Metzger now devotes his efforts to improvisational jazz on electric guitar. He also composed and performed the music for the PBS documentary film, "The Once and Future City" and a production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", directed by Giles Block of the National Theatre of Great Britain. He teaches face-to-face courses but is also currently involved in the development of online courses for the Mason Gross School of the Arts. Metzger formerly taught online for New York University.
Email: onlinemusic@masongross.rutgers.edu 
Matthew MuckeyTrumpet Matthew Muckey joined the New York Philharmonic in June 2006. He graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor’s degree in music, studying with Charles Geyer and Barbara Butler. A native of Sacramento, California, he has appeared as soloist with the Omaha Symphony, Sacramento Philharmonic, California Wind Orchestra, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, and on NPR’s program, From the Top. He has also played with the Boston Pops Orchestra, New World Symphony, and Chicago Civic Orchestra. Mr. Muckey was a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center during the summers of 2003 to 2005, and was the recipient of the Roger Voisin Award in 2004 and 2005.
Judith NicosiaSoprano (Voice) Soprano Judith Nicosia teaches voice, vocal literature and vocal pedagogy classes. A specialist in contemporary music, she has performed works by Olivier Messiaen, Ned Rorem, and Haskell Small with the composers at the piano, and recorded for the Orion, DR, C.R.I., Albany, and Centaur labels. She has performed with numerous ensembles and soloed in varied repertoire with the Opera Orchestra of New York, Opera Company of Philadelphia, and Mississippi Opera, as well as the Montreal, Quebec, Hartford, Nashville, Albany, and Colonial symphonies, among others. Winner of the 1981 Montreal International Voice Competition, Ms. Nicosia has received numerous awards including: First Prize for Woman's Voice and Second Prize for the performance of Darius Milhaud songs at the Paris International Voice Competition; the NYSTA Debut Recital Award; a career award from the National Institute for Music Theatre; two Sullivan Foundation grants; and three consecutive fellowships to Tanglewood. A member of NATS, NYSTA, and ACDA, she is delighted to present the soprano and mezzo-soprano portions of Singer's Repertoire from a Developmental Perspective in 2008 for the New York Singing Teachers Association. Since May 2008, Prof. Nicosia has presented vocal workshops at state conventions in Maine, Ohio, and Virginia as well as a week-long seminar in Connecticut.
Office: Music 120 | Phone: 732-932-8462 
Jessica PhillipsClarinet Jessica Phillips was appointed Second and E-flat Clarinet of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in 2001. She graduated cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University and The Manhattan School of Music as a student of the late David Weber and Ricardo Morales. During the 2003-04 season at the MET, Ms. Phillips also performed as Acting Principal Clarinet. Throughout her freelance career she has worked with the Philadelphia Orchestra, at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, the Bard Music Festival, the Music Festival of the Hamptons, with the American Symphony, EOS Orchestra, DiCapo Opera, La Boheme on Broadway, the Aspen Music Festival, the Meliora Wind Quintet, and has performed in numerous radio and commercial broadcasts. An active chamber musician, Ms. Phillips has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, including performances with the MET Chamber Ensemble, with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, at the Kingston Chamber Music Festival and at the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, to name a few. She has performed in recital and conducted masterclasses at the Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium, the International Clarinet Association’s ClarFest, the Lisbon International Clarinet Meeting, and the International Woodwind Festival. She can be heard on numerous "Live From Lincoln Center" recordings, as well as on some of the recent recordings by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Ms. Phillips loves to cook, travel, hike with her dog, play golf, and is an avid photographer.
Todd PhillipsViolin Todd Phillips, a member of both Orpheus and the Orion String Quartet, made his solo debut at age 13. He has performed as guest soloist with leading orchestras throughout North America, Europe and Japan including the Pittsburgh Symphony, New York String Orchestra, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, with whom he made a critically acclaimed recording of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Deutsche Grammophon. Mr. Phillips has appeared at the Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Santa Fe, Marlboro and Spoleto Festivals, and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Chamber Music at the 92nd St Y and New York Philomusica. He has collaborated with such renowned artists as Rudolf Serkin, Jaime Laredo, Richard Stoltzman, Peter Serkin and Pinchas Zukerman and has participated in eighteen "Musicians from Marlboro" tours. He also serves on the violin and chamber music faculties of the Mannes College of Music. He has recorded for the Arabesque, Delos, Deutsche Grammophon, Finlandia, Marlboro Recording Society, New York Philomusica, RCA Red Seal and Sony Classical labels. 
Michael PowellTrombone Michael Powell is one of the most sought-after trombonists in New York City. Since 1983, Mr. Powell has been a member of the celebrated American Brass Quintet. He performs and records regularly as principal trombonist with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Little Orchestra Society, Speculum Musicae, and the Aspen Festival Orchestra. Mr. Powell has appeared as soloist with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Kansas City Philharmonic, and at the Aspen and New Hampshire music festivals. He also performs on Broadway, records for radio, television and the cinema, and has been recorded on many major record labels. He frequently appears with such diverse ensembles as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Zankel Band, Music Today, Musical Elements, the Classical Band, and P.D.Q. Bach. He has taught master classes in Trombone and Chamber Music all over the world. Mr. Powell commissioned and recorded the Sonata for Trombone and Piano by Eric Ewazen, with the composer as pianist, on the Well-Tempered label. He is also a faculty member of The Juilliard School, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the Aspen Music Festival.
Office: Rehearsal Hall | Phone: 732-932-8791 
Philippe QuintViolin Born in St. Petersburg, Germany, Grammy Award nominee violinist Philippe Quint has already established himself as one of the most brilliant and charismatic young artists of his generation. His debut recording of William Schuman’s Violin Concerto (8.559083) with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Jose Serebrier was nominated for two Grammy awards, including one for best soloist with orchestra, also named as Editor’s Choice by both The Gramophone and the Strad magazines. His recent appearances include performances with the Detroit, Bournemouth, Royal Liverpool, Minnesota, Houston, Indianapolis, China National Symphony, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestras, and at the Mostly Mozart Festival, under the batons of Marin Alsop, Andrew Litton, Joanne Falletta, Klauspeter Seibel, Kurt Masur, Jorge Mester and Carlos Miguel Prieto. He performed the world premiere of Lera Auerbach’s Concerto No. 1 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, a work that was written for and dedicated to him. Since becoming an American citizen in 1991 Philippe Quint has made numerous appearances in Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, and performed at festivals, and radio and television stations throughout the United States, Europe and South America. He amassed top prizes at the 1998 Juilliard Competition, Bagby, Clarisse Kampel Foundations and the Salon de Virtuosi Awards. He also received both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Juilliard School in 1998, where he studied with Dorothy Delay and Cho-Liang Lin, and took master-classes with Isaac Stern and Itzhak Perlman. 
Nancy Yunhwa RaoTheory Dr. Rao has degrees from National Taiwan Normal University (B.A.) and the University of Michigan (M.M. and Ph.D.). Her research interests include twentieth-century American music, women composers, early history of Chinatown opera theaters and contemporary Chinese composers. Her articles can be found in the Musical Quarterly, American Music, Perspectives of New Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, as well as essay collections Locating East Asia in Western Art Music and Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-century American Music. She received American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, 2003, and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship, 2004–2005.
Office: Graduate Music | Phone: 732-932-8809 
Barbara RetzkoVoorhees Choir Barbara Retzko has a strong commitment and dedication to vocal education. She has directed the award-winning Ridge Chorale, Concert Choir, A Cappella Choir and Madrigal Singers of Basking Ridge High School. She has served as Choral Director at the International School of Düsseldorf Germany, performing in the Netherlands, Norway, and Germany. She has served as Guest Conductor for the International Honor Choir in Switzerland. Barbara has served as Guest Conductor for the Independent School Choral Festival in North Carolina, the New Jersey Region II Chorus, and New Jersey All State Chorus. She received the Governor's Teacher Award for Teacher of the Year in 1998, an Excellence in the Arts Award from Somerset County in 2007 and was named NJMEA Master Music Teacher in 2008. She has traveled with the American Music Abroad RED tours in Europe. Students of her program have pursued studies in music at universities, and many now teach and perform throughout the world.
Markus RhotenBorn in 1978 in Hanover, Germany, Mr. Rhoten attended the College of Arts in Berlin, and continued his studies as an apprentice with the National Opera Orchestra Mannheim. Subsequently, he was awarded a stipend for the Academy of the Bavarian Radio Orchestra in Munich, and in 2002 became principal timpanist of the Bavarian Radio Orchestra under Lorin Maazel. He has also worked with conductors Mariss Jansons, Riccardo Muti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Franz Welser-Möst, Thomas Daussgard, Paavo Järvi, and Mstislav Rostropovich, among others. Mr. Rhoten has also performed with the Hessen Radio Symphony Orchestra; Zurich Opera Orchestra; North German Radio Philharmonic; Lower Saxony State Opera Orchestra; and Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Markus Rhoten joined the New York Philharmonic as Principal Timpani in September 2006. Prior to this appointment he was the principal timpanist of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, led by Eliahu Inbal.
Mike RichmondJazz bass Mike Richmond, bassist and composer, was born in Philadelphia, PA. He studied at Temple University with Edward Arian (Philadelphia Orchestra) and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in classical performance/music education. After graduation he studied jazz technique and harmony with Jimmy Garrison. His book Modern Walking Bass Technique is internationally used as one of the leading texts on the art of jazz bass technique. An award-winning faculty member of New York University, he has also won Grammy Awards with Miles Davis and the Philadelphia Orchestra and has been featured on over 150 recordings (12 solo). Mike’s value as a teacher is enriched by his performing and recording associations with many jazz greats. He has been a featured soloist with the Bratislava Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cologne Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cologne Radio Big Band, and the Hamburg State Opera.
Office: Music Annex 111 | Phone: 732-932-9302 
Matthew RiedelComposition Matthew Riedel has degrees from the State University of California (B.A., organ and composition), University of California (M.A., composition and theory), and Rutgers University (Ph.D., composition and theory). His works have been performed in films, television, recordings and onstage in this country and Europe. He has also worked as a hardware/software engineer and was a representative for Arp, Moog Music, and Touch Synthesis in the mid 1970's. He also has worked as a recording enginner, both in-studio and freelance. Prof. Riedel specializes in computer, electronic and electroacoustic music and performs on a variety of synthesizer controllers (keyboard, percussion and experimental) as well as theremin and electric bass. His catalog of works has recently been added to the collection at La Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France). Prof. Riedel teaches electroacoustic, computer, and traditional composition techniques, recording, technology, and theory. He runs the electronic music lab, the recording arts studio, the sonic arts studio, and the IMLC on-line courses and training system.
Office: GMH 200E | Phone: 732-932-6873 
John RojakBass trombone John Rojak has been a member of the American Brass Quintet since 1991. He is bass trombonist with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, New York Pops, Little Orchestra Society, Stamford Symphony, and played the 16-year run of Les Misérables on Broadway. He has performed and recorded with the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus, the New York Chamber Symphony, and as solo trombone of Solisti New York. He has also performed with the Cleveland Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic, for Pope John Paul II, and with Metallica. Active as a soloist and clinician, Mr. Rojak was the first bass trombonist to be artist-in- residence at Quad City Arts in Illinois and Iowa, performed concerti in the U.S. and Asia, and has been featured at the International Trombone Association Workshops in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, Boulder, Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah.. His first solo recording, "The Romantic Bass Trombone" with pianist Robert Koenig is on MMC Records. He is also featured on the CD, "Eric Ewazen’s Bass Hits" playing Rhapsody for Bass Trombone and Strings with the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Symphony, and the soon to be released Walter Ross’ Trombone Concerto No. 2 with the New York Chamber Symphony. He has given master classes and recitals in the United States, Japan and Mexico, and has been adjudicator for many competitions, including Concert Artists Guild and Fischoff. Mr. Rojak is on the faculties of The Juilliard School, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, Bard College, Brooklyn College, New York University, and the Aspen Music Festival.
Office: Music Building | Phone: 732-932-9302 Jim Rotondi Jazz Trumpet Trumpeter Jim Rotondi attended North Texas State University, where he graduated with a degree in trumpet performance. While in Texas, Jim was awarded first place in the International Trumpet Guild's jazz trumpet competition for the year 1984. Following his college training, Jim began recording and touring internationally with the Ray Charles Orchestra. He subsequently commenced a six- year tenure with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. During this time Jim also became a member of organist Charles Earland's quintet. He currently tours with his own group, as well as with the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and Grammy-winner Toshiko Akiyoshi and the collective known as One For All, which features a front line of Eric Alexander and Steve Davis. Jim's extensive recording experience most recently includes the release of his fifth date as a leader, titled "Destination Up", for the Sharp Nine label following the successful release of four CDs on the Criss Cross Jazz label. He can also be heard on several of Charles Earland's Highnote Records releases, alongside saxophonist Eric Alexander, with whom Jim made his recording debut on Eric's Delmark release "Straight Up". Other recordings include saxophonist George Coleman's Octet, featuring Harold Mabern, as well as drummer Ray Appleton's Sextet, which features Slide Hampton, Charles McPherson, and John Hicks. Jim is also a member of the aforementioned One For All, whose Sharp Nine Records releases "Too Soon To Tell" and "Optimism" received critical acclaim from Cadence, JazzTimes, and The Detroit Free Press. 
Angela Anderson SmithBassoon Angela Anderson Smith has been a member of The Philadelphia Orchestra since 1997. Her previous orchestra memberships include the San Jose Symphony, where she served as second bassoon, and the San Antonio Symphony, where she was assistant principal/second bassoon. Ms. Anderson frequently performs in the Philadelphia Orchestra Chamber Music Series, and is a member of the Network for New Music and the Conwell Woodwind Quintet, an ensemble made up of Temple University faculty members. Ms. Anderson has won prizes at such competitions as the Carmel and Coleman chamber music competitions, and she has participated in the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, the Music Academy of the West Summer Festival, and the Midsummer Mozart Festival, where she was second bassoon in the Festival Orchestra for two seasons. Currently a faculty member of the Esther Boyer College of Music at Temple University, Ms. Anderson has previously taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Santa Clara, and Southwest Texas State University. She graduated from the University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of Music in 1988 and received a Master of Music from the University of Southern California in 1991. Her teachers have included Artemus Edwards, Norman Herzberg, Dennis Michel, and Matthew Karr.
Timothy SmithMarching band, pep band Mr. Smith is entering his sixth year as director of the Marching Scarlet Knights. Prior to his arrival at The Mason Gross School of the Arts, his teaching experience included work as field director and percussion instructor with noted high school band programs. As an active adjudicator, Mr. Smith travels to various band competitions during the school year. He has studied conducting with Alan McMurray of the University of Colorado and Jerry Junkin of the University of Texas. Career highlights include appearances with the Rutgers Band on the television show "The Apprentice", as well as the Fox Networks 2006 fall preview program in New York City. Mr. Smith also conducted the combined bands of Arizona State and Rutgers Universities in a performance of the National Anthem during the Insight Bowl in December. As Director of Athletic Bands at Rutgers, Mr. Smith also directs the Rutgers Concert Band and the 70-member Rutgers Pep Band. He is an active member of the College Band Directors National Association.
Office: Lucy Stone Hall A123 | Phone: 732-445-2480 
Jonathan SpitzCello Cellist Jonathan Spitz has established himself as one of the leading cellists in the New York area. In recent seasons, Mr. Spitz has performed the Dvorak Concerto and Brahms "Double" Concerto, Bloch’s Schelomo, the Elgar Concerto, and the Haydn Sinfonia Concertante. His performance of the Saint-Saens Cello Concerto at the OK Mozart Festival was broadcast on NPR’s Performance Today. Mr. Spitz is an active chamber musician, and performs regularly with the New Jersey Symphony Chamber Players, Bard Festival Chamber Players and as a guest artist in chamber music festivals throughout the world. He performed for three summers at the Marlboro Festival, and has played concerts with Rudolf Serkin, Oscar Shumsky, Benita Valente, Bargemusic, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, and Speculum Musicae. Mr. Spitz has been Principal Cellist of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra since 1990, and performs on the 1696 "ex. Prince Gursky" Stradivarius. In recent years, Mr. Spitz has become increasingly sought after as a teacher and coach.
Office: Music Building | Phone: 732-932-9302 
George B. StaufferMusic History is Dean of the Mason Gross School of the Arts and Professor of Music History at Rutgers University. He is known internationally as a scholar, performer, and writer on the music and culture of the Baroque Era and the life and works of J.S. Bach in particular. Educated at Dartmouth College, Bryn Mawr College, and Columbia University, he has published several widely- cited and authoritative books. He has also contributed to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Collier’s Encyclopedia, Early Music, Bach-Jahrbuch, and many other American, European, and Asian publications. As a speaker, he has lectured at Harvard University, Yale University, University of Leipzig, National Sun Yat- sen University, and many other schools. As a performer, Stauffer studied organ with John Weaver and Vernon de Tar (Juilliard School). He served as University Organist and Chapel Music Director at Columbia University, where he appeared frequently in concert.
Office: MGSA Dean's Office | Phone: 732-932-9360 
Joseph TompkinsPercussion Percussionist Joseph Tompkins has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the New York City Opera and Ballet Orchestras, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. On Broadway he has played in productions of The King and I, Swan Lake, Oklahoma!, The Lion King, The Producers, Spamalot, The Light in the Piazza, Tarzan, Guys and Dolls and In the Heights. Tompkins has a performed on film soundtracks for The Manchurian Candidate, The Last Holiday, Failure to Launch, and Casanova. For seven years he was a member of the percussion trio Timetable, a group committed to commissioning and performing new works for percussion. He is Chair of the Percussion Department at Rutgers University and a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and the Manhattan School.
Mark TrautmanChurch Music Skills Mark Trautman is Director of Music at Christ Church in New Brunswick and Artistic Director and Conductor of the New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra. At Christ Church, he directs the city’s largest church music program and coordinates more than forty concerts a year on the church’s unique Richards, Fowkes & Company mechanical action pipe organ. His orchestral conducting has been described as "clear and communicative" by Classical New Jersey and he has conducted a wide variety of literature with the NBCO, including works by Bartók, Copland, William Grant Still, and more. He earned degrees in organ performance, choral conducting, and church music with honors from Towson University in Baltimore and Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, and studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig, Germany. He is the winner of numerous scholarships and awards, and is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, a national music honors society. Mr. Trautman has performed in the United States and Europe as an accompanist, conductor, and organist. In addition he has served as an adjudicator for events sponsored by the American Choral Directors’ Association, the American Guild of Organists, and the New Jersey Folk Festival.
Office: | Phone: 732-545-6262 
Frederick UrreyTenor (voice) Tenor Frederick Urrey is an artist praised for his artistry, musicianship, and compelling performance of opera, oratorio, and recital throughout the United States, Europe, and in Canada and Asia. Although perhaps best known as an outstanding interpreter of the vocal works of J.S. Bach, Mr. Urrey has performed and recorded works ranging from English lute songs, Handel and Haydn oratorios, German Lieder, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, operas of Handel and Mozart, to songs of Stephen Foster, Rossini arias, and works by prominent contemporary composers. His credits include numerous performances with major symphony orchestras and choruses in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Boston’s Symphony Hall, and San Francisco’s Davies Hall with such distinguished conductors as Christopher Hogwood, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir David Willcocks, Robert Shaw, Helmut Rilling, Greg Funfgeld, Richard Auldon Clark, Bernard Labadie, and J. Reilly Lewis. His discography currently lists thirty-three titles on the Dorian, BMG/RCA, Newport Classic, Harmonia Mundi, Vox Classic and other labels. Mr. Urrey holds the D.M.A. from the Peabody Conservatory, a Diploma with Distinction in Lied and Oratorio from the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna where he was a pupil of Kmsg. Prof. Hans Hotter, and B.M. and M.M. degrees from Louisiana State University. Professor Urrey serves as chair of the voice area, teaches studio voice and Diction for Singers.
Office: Music 218 | Phone: 732-932-8840 
Scott WhitenerBrass instruments, Conducting Scott Whitener, Professor of Music in the Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers University, is a graduate of the Juilliard School, the University of Michigan, and Rutgers. At Juilliard, he was first trumpet of the Juilliard Orchestra under the distinguished French conductor, Jean Morel, who influenced his conducting. He began his professional career with the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra where he played under Pablo Casals, among others, and later played at the American debut of the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio of Munich under Raphael Kubelik at Carnegie Hall. Dr. Whitener's book, A Complete Guide to Brass: Instruments and Technique (Schirmer Thomson), now in its third edition, is used at over one hundred universities and is considered the definitive work in the field. He was invited in June, 2006 to present a lecture on playing the trumpet in the high register at the International Trumpet Guild Symposium. Professor Whitener participated in the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble program in Horncastle, England. It was this experience that inspired him to found the Rutgers University Brass Ensemble in 1993. He also studied the interpretation of 16th and 17th century music at Stanford University. Dr. Whitener taught conducting for twenty-four years. Among his former students are Paavo Järvi, principal conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and regular guest conductor of major orchestras throughout the world, and Gail Lee a guest conductor of orchestras in the Czech Republic and the Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. She was for four years associate conductor of the Taiwan Symphony Orchestra. Professor Whitener serves as Vice Chair of the Department of Music and Chair of Brass.
Office: Rehearsal 011 | Phone: 732-932-8860 Staff
Cindy L. CutlerAdministrative Assistant to the Chair Cindy provides administrative support to the department Chair, Vice-Chair and faculty. She implements all actions for faculty searches, tenure process and reappointments, international faculty visas, and various reports. She maintains the Chair’s calendar and schedules appointments and meetings with faculty and students. She has more than 20 years of experience in legal and academic administration.
Office: Marryott 104 | Phone: 732-932-8860 
Lois FromerSenior Administrative Assistant Admission and Registration Administrator Ms. Fromer is the coordinator for admissions and scholarship for the undergraduate and graduate programs offered in the department. She assists the Director of Undergraduate Studies with registration and academic affairs. Ms. Fromer oversees the distribution and collection of undergraduate and graduate rosters, and works with the faculty concerning studio and ensemble assignments. From being admitted to getting your diploma, Ms. Fromer is the person to e-mail or talk to. Before joining the Music Department staff, Lois worked at Rutgers College. Recipient of the President's Recognition Program for Excellence in Service.
Office: Marryott 116 | Phone: 732-932-9190, FAX: 732-932-1517 
Ivy HagaPrincipal Secretary Ivy supervises the work-study staff, provides administrative support to the department, and is responsible for many of the everyday tasks required for operation. She holds degrees from Rutgers in Music Education and Bassoon, and has studied under Brian Kershner, Bruce Hammel, and Robert Wagner. She has performed or worked with Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey, Westminster Conservatory, Lawrenceville School, Princeton Symphony's BRAVO!, Sonora Winds, Monmouth Symphony Orchestra, Artemis Chamber Ensemble, New Jersey Arts Collective, and Chicago Civic Orchestra.
Office: Marryott 102 | Phone: 732-932-9364, 732-932-3848 
Wendy InamineBusiness Assistant Wendy works on budgeting, purchasing and payroll issues. She is an alumna of Douglass College and MGSA, and served as assistant with the Jupiter Symphony Orchestra and the Naumburg Orchestra, before joining the department staff.
Office: Marryott 115 | Phone: 732-932-8788 
David MillerKeyboard Technician Dave Miller received a Bachelor's degree in voice in 1990 and studied piano technology at Steinway & Sons. Before joining the Rutgers Music staff in 1997 he maintained a private tuning practice. He worked recently on a recording of Anthony Newman (pianist) playing solo piano compositions by Billy Joel in various classical styles. He says: "...I had a blast." He also continues to perform with Za Zu Zaz, a jazz quintet.
Office: NMC-030 | Phone: 732-932-6686 Gayatri Pandya Bookkeeper Gayatri assists Wendy Inamine with financial matters. She holds a degree in Accounting and has worked in financial, investment, and technical offices.
Office: Marryott 115 | Phone: 732-932-8788 
Mark PiotrowskiStage Manager Mark runs the Nicholas Music Center during concerts and other events. He handles lights, sound, chairs, stands, he liaisons with the Box Office, and he opens the door when you are ready to perform. He is a graduate of the Rutgers Theater Depatment's Stage Management Program, one of the best programs in the country. Recipient of the President's Recognition Program Bridge Award, Dalai Lama Planning Team.
Office: Nicholas Music Center 117 | Phone: 732-932-8822 
Paul Reidformer Electronics Tech and System Administrator Paul has been involved with audio and computers since the early 1960s. Building amplifiers and modifying tape recorders in his attic led to supplying sound systems for acts from Eric the Red to Machito, Hot Tuna and Ella Fitzgerald. He studied room-sized mainframe computers, saw the dawn of the ARPAnet, used one of the first palmtop computers, and built his first 8088 PC from a kit. He recently retired from the Music department, and is playing with his Corgis by the bay in Maine.
Email: preid@rci.rutgers.edu Wendy Silverman Administrative Assistant Wendy assists the Admissions Administrator with the audition procedures, supports the Undergraduate and Graduate Directors, and oversees student recital applications and programs. Wendy holds a degree in Communications, worked for a nonprofit organization, and in the music industry doing Retail Marketing, Special Projects, Licensing and Business Affairs.
Office: Marryott 115 | Phone: 732-932-8999 
Kevin ViscarielloDepartment Administrator Supervisor Director, Rutgers Concert Bureau Kevin handles all scheduling of Music Department facilities including the course and concert schedule as well as rentals of the Music Department facilities. He also oversees the entire Mason Gross Performing Arts Center facilities complex. As Director of the Rutgers Concert Bureau, Kevin coordinate the contracting of music students for events. The Rutgers Concert Bureau provides musicians for all occasions. Kevin is an alumnus of the Rutgers Music Program.
Office: Marryott 110 | Phone: 732-932-9067
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