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2011 Faculty continued18writing five volumes on Jazz Improvisation. Hehas maintained studios in Chicago, the Centraland Western Michigan areas and Central NewYork. Holland received his doctoral degree inclassical performance from Michigan StateUniversity. He is an active performer and clinicianand has served on the music faculties of WesternMichigan University and Kalamazoo College.Paul Hostetter (orchestralconductor) is the EthelFoley Distinguished Chair inOrchestral Conducting for theSchwob School of Music atColumbus State University, theMusic Director of the ColonialSymphony, the Conductor andArtistic Advisor for the acclaimed SequiturEnsemble and was formerly the AssociateConductor for the Broadway productions ofCandide and The Gershwins’ Fascinating Rhythm.He has appeared as a guest conductor with theNew Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the AmericanComposers Orchestra, the New York City Opera,Philharmonia Virtuosi, the Delaware SymphonyOrchestra, the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh, PeakPerformances, the Genesis Opera Company, thePrism Chamber Orchestra, the New York Virtuosi,the Daylesford Sinfonia (Bermuda), the FamilyOpera Initiative and the Stony Brook SummerMusic Festival Orchestra. Paul also has assistedJames Levine with the Metropolitan OperaChamber Ensemble and has premiered overeighty works by composers including PulitzerPrize-winners David Del Tredici, Lewis Spratlanand Ned Rorem with groups including theWashington Square Contemporary Music Society,Ensemble 21, the San Francisco ContemporaryMusic Players, Music from China, The Societyfor New Music, the Glass Farm Ensemble, theEnsemble for New Music and Phillip Glass’sMusic at the Anthology series. He conductedElliot Carter’s Double Concerto at the Libraryof Congress and in 2009, he led Newband inthe premiere of Dean Drummond’s opera CaféBufe. Paul has collaborated with jazz greats JimHall, Pat Metheny and Joe Lovano, with stringsfrom the Orchestra of St. Lukes, which receiveda Downbeat Critics Award, as well as with HeidiGrant Murphy and members of the AureoleEnsemble and Metropolitan Opera. His recording,Where Crows Gather was listed by The New YorkTimes chief critic Anthony Tommasini as one ofthe top five of 2005. His discography includesrecordings on labels including Telarc, Koch, Mode,CRI, Albany, Tzadick and Naxos. His most recentrecording of Concerti with the Sequitur Ensemblereceived five stars for performance from BBCMusic Magazine. His recording of StravinskyMiniatures with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestrareceived a Grammy Award.Thomas Hrynkiw (piano) studied with JosephJacobs and Anne Liva, and later studied withDora Zaslavsky at the Manhattan School ofMusic. He won first prize for a performance ofthe Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto with LeopoldStokowski conducting and in1967 he won the gold medal atthe Geneva Competition. Tom hasalso won the Frank HuntingtonBeebe Award, the Harold BauerAward and the National MusicTeachers Association Award. Hehas played major concerts bothin Europe and the U.S., including appearancesat the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center andConstitution Hall in Philadelphia. He has appearedat the Newport Festival in Rhode Island, wherehe served as the music advisor, senior artist andvocal director to their director. He has recordedaccompaniments to more than 800 works andsolo pieces, including the Four Ballades and theFour Scherzi of Chopin, for Disklavier PianoSoft.He has had a long association with MetropolitanOpera basso Paul Plishka, performing recitals notonly in America but abroad, including appearancesin the former Soviet Union.Dr. Gene Koshinski (Directorof Percussion) has receivedinternational acclaim as apercussionist and publishedcomposer (ASCAP) andis currently instructor ofpercussion at the University ofMinnesota Duluth. He performsand teaches in an array of musical mediumsincluding solo, chamber, orchestral, jazz (drumset and vibraphone), studio recording, Africandrumming, Brazilian percussion, Cuban andHaitian drumming, Caribbean steelband andother types of world music. He won the NationalMTNA Collegiate Artist Percussion Competitionand finished third in the prestigious UniversalMarimba Duo Competition in Belgium. He hasperformed with the NFL (National FootballLeague) Films and can be heard on the Emmyaward-winningsoundtrack, A Century of NFL;Late Show with David Letterman; NASCAR; MaryWilson (the Supremes); David Samuels; WycliffeGordon; and Nebojsa Zivkovic, to name a few.Koshinski is a member of the Quey PercussionDuo and has commissioned and premieredworks by renowned composers including StuartSaunders Smith, David Macbride, Dave Hollinden,Alejandro Vinao, Robert Maggio, Bruce Reiprich,Mathew Herman and Alphonse Izzo. He has aB.A. from West Chester University, an M.M. andD.M.A. from The Hartt School. Gene is endorsedby Sabian Cymbals, Innovative Percussion andHoneyRock Publications.Kenneth Jernigan (orchestralconductor), is often soughtafter to conduct all-statefestivals because of his highmusical standards and his abilityto inspire young musicians towinning performances. Jerniganearned his B.M. from the AaronCopland School of Music and his M.M. fromLehman College in New York. Jernigan is anorchestra and band clinician and is currentlyemployed at Hastings-on-Hudson High Schoolwhere he conducts the orchestra, band and jazzensembles, each of which have earned numerousfestival awards. At PAI, Jernigan has conductedboth the symphony and chamber orchestras andserves as co-director of PAI’s Junior Division.Mark Andrew Kratz (tenor),was featured as Tamino in TheArctic Magic Flute, as the Beastin Disney’s musical Beauty andthe Beast and most recently,at the Capital Playhouse inOlympia, Wash. He is a 2006graduate of the Tri-Cities Operayoung artist training program and a 2003 youngartist for the Tacoma Opera. He holds an M.M.from Binghamton University and a B.M. in vocalperformance from the Eastman School of Music.His roles include Tamino in Die Zauberflöte,Yamadori in Madame Butterfly, Arturo in Luciadi Lammermoor, Peter Quint in Turn of theScrew, Gherardo in Gianni Schicchi and Alfredin Die Fledermaus. His other performancesinclude Mozart’s Requiem and Beethoven’s NinthSymphony, Britten’s Serenade for tenor and horn,Schubert’s Mass in E-flat, Bach’s Magnificat andMendelssohn’s Die Erste Waldpurgisnacht. He isalso the youngest person to have sung at theNewport Music Festival.Elizabeth Landon (flute) hasserved as principal flutist ofthe Charlotte Symphony sinceSeptember 2006. She is a1997 graduate of WyomingSeminary, where she studiedflute with Nancy Sandersonprior to pursuing her B.M. atNorthwestern University where she studied withWalfrid Kujala and Richard Graef, both flutistswith the Chicago Symphony at that time. Aftergraduation, she attended the Escola Superior deMúsica de Catalunya in Barcelona as the firstAmerican student of Vicens Prats, principal flutistof the Orchestre de Paris. Her flute/guitar duo(Landon/Nogúes Duo) performed throughout theregion under the sponsorship of “RibermúsicaFundació.” Upon returning from Spain, Landonattended the Tanglewood Music Festival in 2003and again in 2004. As a student of Leone Buyse,she received her M.M. from Rice University in2005. She has served as a substitute piccolowith the Houston Symphony and principal flutewith the Minnesota Orchestra. From 2005-06 she was a member of the Chicago CivicOrchestra and an active teacher and freelancemusician in the Chicago area.Mark Laubach (organ) isregarded among the finestorganists of his generation inthe U.S.. Since winning first prizein the 1984 American Guildof Organists (AGO) NationalYoung Artists’ Competition inOrgan Performance, he hasconcertized throughout the U.S.A and GreatBritain in some of the most notable concert