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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 
Cynde IversonBassoon Cynde Iverson is Principal Bassoon of the New Haven Symphony and performs with many of New York’s most prestigious ensembles. As a soloist Ms. Iverson has performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and with the New Haven Symphony. She tours the US, Europe, Japan, and Southeast Asia. In the summer months she performs at the Caramoor Music Festival and the Moab Music Festival. She has held principal positions with the Rhode Island Philharmonic and the Connecticut Orchestra. As an advocate for contemporary music, Ms. Iverson has performed and recorded and explored the medium of jazz with Steve Lacy, Anthony Davis and James Newton. She has recorded for several commercial labels and most recently she recorded the Ravel Piano Concerto with Orpheus and jazz legend, Herbie Hancock. Cynde Iverson received her B.M. (cum laude) from Indiana University as a student of Leonard Sharrow and her M.M. (cum laude) from the Juilliard School as a student of Stephen Maxym.
Office: Music Building | Phone: 732-932-9302 
Alan R. KayClarinet One of the most versatile and respected musicians of his generation, clarinetist Alan R. Kay joined the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in 2002. Mr. Kay’s honors include the C.D. Jackson Award at Tanglewood, a Presidential Scholars Teacher Recognition Award, and the 1989 Young Concert Artists Award with the sextet Hexagon featured in a documentary film, "Debut." Mr. Kay is a founding member of Windscape; he appears with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and with distinguished ensembles such as the Mendelssohn, Mirò, and Shanghai String Quartets. Mr. Kay is an artist of the Bravo! Vail Valley Music and Yellow Barn Festivals. His performance of Weber’s Concerto at the 2005 Windham Chamber Festival was heard throughout the U.S. on NPR. Artistic Director of the New York Chamber Ensemble, he returns to the Ensemble's Cape May Music Festival for his 20th season with his popular series of jazz-influenced and thematic chamber music programs. The past season included a major European tour with Orpheus to 9 cities in Italy, Germany, Austria and Slovenia with pianist Jonathan Biss and an appearance on the nationally-broadcast "Live From Lincoln Center" PBS show with violinist Gil Shaham in addition to the orchestra's Carnegie Hall series and additional concerts at Lafayette College and Northwestern University. Mr. Kay's "New Brandenburg" series, a multiple-season commissioning project of six Bach Brandenburg Concerto-inspired works, continued during the 2008-09 season with new works by Pulitzer Prize winners Melinda Wagner and Paul Moravec, the latter featuring him as one of four concertante soloists. His article about the "New Brandenburg" project appeared in Yellow Barn's newsletter this year. The past season also found Mr. Kay recording works of Webern and Stravinsky with conductor Robert Craft and a late work of Donald Martino with cellist Fred Sherry and pianist Stephen Gosling. Mr. Kay produced a special recital of his Stony Brook University graduate students called "Clarinutcase" in his first year as Artist-in-Residence there, featuring an eclectic and entertaining program of multiple-clarinet works. As a conductor, he led the Manhattan School of Music's Wind Ensemble in a concert of Weill, Varèse and Stravinsky and the 9th songwriting workshop performance at Rodeph Shalom in New York, "Midrash Hour." He gave masterclasses for the New York Youth Symphony and at Stony Brook University and, together with clarinetists Michael Webster and Stephen Williamson, formed a new clarinet workshop and seminar in June 2009 called "Clarinetopia." Mr. Kay is the father of two sons, Noah (15) and Jonathan (12), with whom he lives in Leonia, New Jersey.
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.
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