Dynamic, versatile, personable, compelling, and energetic are a few of the words critics and musicians have used to describe conductor PAUL HOSTETTER.

POSITIONS
He is currently the Music Director of the Colonial Symphony, where he is developing innovative programs for audiences of all ages to critical acclaim. He is also the Director of Orchestral Studies at Montclair State University and the Artistic Director of the Winter Sun Music Festival. He was previously the Music Director of the High Mountain Symphony where in his first season alone he more than tripled ticket sales, and Music Director of the New Jersey Youth Symphony, which grew by over a 30% in size during his tenure.

GUEST CONDUCTING
Maestro Hostetter has conducted numerous orchestras and opera companies including the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, the New York City Opera, Philharmonia Virtuosi, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, the Genesis Opera Company, the Prism Chamber Orchestra, the Daylesford Sinfonia (Bermuda), the Performing Arts Institute Festival Orchestra (Wilkes-Barre, PA), and the Stony Brook Summer Music Festival Orchestra.

CONTEMORARY MUSIC
He has also had a tremendous impact on the world of contemporary music having premiered over forty works by composers including Pulitzer Prize winners David Del Tredici and Louis Spratlan with groups including the Sequitur Ensemble, Ensemble 21, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Music from China, and Phillip Glass's Music at the Anthology series.

EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Education remains a passion for Paul. He has served as an advisor to Carnegie Hall for their successful Link-up Series. He is the conductor of the New York Premiere Ensemble, with whom he has given numerous performances of Raphael Mostel's The Travels of Babar to critical acclaim in both English and French. A tireless advocate for minority representation in classical music, he helped to found and create the Music Advancement Program of the Juilliard School, which provides holistic musical training for children of color. In addition he has been a guest conductor for the Manhattan School of Music's Graduate Orchestral Performance Program and has presented master classes at the Mannes School of Music, the Peabody Conservatory, the Juilliard School of Music, the University of Michigan, William Paterson University, and the University of San Paulo.

INSTRUMENTAL WORK
An avid instrumentalist, Paul Hostetter performed as a percussionist/timpanist with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with whom he toured and recorded extensively (including a Grammy Award) as well as with the American Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. As a soloist he has appeared with the Little Orchestra Society, the American Symphony Orchestra, the Florida State University Symphony, and the contemporary music ensemble Music Mobile

RECORDINGS
As a recording artist he has collaborated with jazz greats Jim Hall, Pat Metheny, and Joe Lovano,with strings from the Orchestra of St. Lukes, as well as with Heidi Grant Murphy and members of the Metropolitan Opera. His extensive discography includes recordings ranging from jazz to opera to contemporary music presented on many labels including Telarc, Koch, Mode, CRI, Albany, Zadick, Milken Archive, Argo, Decca, Delos, Deutsche-Grammaphon, Naxos, New World, Polygram, Pro-Arte, RCA Victor, Sony Classical, and Warner Brothers labels.

Paul holds degrees in performance from the Florida State University and the Juilliard School of Music. He currently resides in Union, New Jersey with his wife, violist and conductor Elizabeth Schulze Hostetter.