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Director of Orchestral Studies at Montclair State University, PAUL HOSTETTER is also the Music Director of the Colonial Symphony where he is developing innovative programs for audiences of all ages to critical acclaim and for the acclaimed new music ensemble Sequitur. He was previously the Music Director of the High Mountain Symphony, Music Director of the New Jersey Youth Symphony, Artistic Director of the Winter Sun Music Festival, and the Associate Conductor for the Broadway productions of Candide and The Gershwins' Fascinating Rhythm where he led numerous performances.
Maestro Hostetter has appeared as a guest conductor with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, the New York City Opera, Philharmonia Virtuosi, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, the Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, the Genesis Opera Company, Peak Performances, Da Capo Chamber Players, the Prism Chamber Orchestra, the Daylesford Sinfonia (Bermuda), the Festival Orchestra of the Performing Arts Institute (Kingston, PA), the Family Opera Initiative, the Stony Brook Summer Music Festival Orchestra, Ensemble 21, the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Florida Youth Orchestra, the Society for New Music, and Music at the Anthology. He has conducted over 60 premieres by composers including Pulitzer Prize winners David Del Tredici, Lewis Spratlan, and Ned Rorem.
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, which received a Downbeat Critics Award, as well as with Heidi Grant Murphy and members of the Metropolitan Opera. His recording, Where Crows Gather, featuring the music of Lewis Spratlan, was listed by the New York Times chief critic Anthony Tommasini as one of the top five of 2005. His extensive discography includes recordings on many labels including: Conductor - Telarc, Koch, Mode, CRI, Albany, Zadick, and Naxos; Instrumentalist - Argo, Decca, Delos, Deutsche-Grammaphon, Naxos, New World, Polygram, Pro-Arte, RCA Victor, Sony Classical, and Warner Brothers labels.
Maestro Hostetter has served on the faculties of New York University, the Juilliard School, and William Paterson University. He has presented master classes at the Manhattan School of Music, the Mannes School of Music, the Peabody Conservatory, the University of Michigan, William Paterson University, and the University of San Paulo. In addition he has conducted the NJ All-State Orchestra, the Westchester All-State Orchestra, the PA District 6 Orchestra, and the NJ Regions II Orchestra.
He holds degrees in performance from the Florida State University and the Juilliard School of Music and has appeared in master classes with Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Slatkin, Larry Rachcliff, and Christopher Wilkins and performed extensively as a percussionist with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with whom he won a Grammy Award, as well as the American Symphony Orchestra, the Little Orchestra Society, and the New York Philharmonic.
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