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Woodwinds 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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.
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.
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