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Office: Music Building 105 | Phone: 732-932-8860 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
Gwendolyn TothHarpsichord Recognized as one of America's leading performers on early keyboard instruments, Gwendolyn Toth performs with equal ease on the harpsichord, organ, fortepiano, and clavichord. Her interpretations have been acclaimed for their spirit and intelligence, and her technique is founded on historical performance principles of fingering, articulation, and phrasing. Ms. Toth has won prizes in the Magnum Opus Harpsichord competition and in American Guild of Organist competitions. She has been heard in concert throughout North America, Europe and the Far East, and on radio networks in Holland, Germany, France, and America's National Public Radio. She has performed in early music festivals in Boston, USA; Utrecht, Holland; Regensburg, Germany; and the Czech Republic.
Office: Music Building | Phone: 732-932-9302 
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
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