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Woodwinds
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 
Maureen HurdClarinet Maureen Hurd has appeared as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral clarinetist in concerts throughout Europe, Asia and North America including a performance at the 2005 International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest in Tokyo, Japan. She has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in Alice Tully Hall and earned praise from the New York Times for her performance at the 2004 Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Connecticut. Her performances of contemporary chamber music include appearances at New York’s Merkin Hall and in a Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk radio broadcast of American music in Germany. Her research and performances of Benny Goodman’s classical clarinet commissions have resulted in international recognition. She earned Doctor of Musical Arts, Master of Musical Arts, and Master of Music degrees from the Yale School of Music where she studied with David Shifrin and Charles Neidich. She frequently presents master classes, recitals, lectures and clinics at clarinet festivals, universities, and conferences throughout the United States and abroad. She plays Selmer Signature B-flat and A soprano clarinets and is a Conn-Selmer Artist.
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 
Matthew SullivanOboe Matthew Sullivan has an active and multi-faceted career that finds him frequently featured in solo, chamber, and orchestral performances throughout the world. He performed regularly with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony Woodwind Quintet. Increasingly active as a chamber musician and a champion of contemporary literature, he joined the Quintet of the Americas (1982-92), and founded Helios and First Avenue. He currently performs with the Queens Symphony Orchestra, and he is Principal Oboist of the Westchester Chamber Orchestra and the New Jersey Pops Symphony Orchestra. He performs regularly with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Colonial Symphony, and the pit orchestras of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon. His solo and chamber music performance has been featured on National Public Radio's New Sounds and on Voice of America broadcasts worldwide. He has recorded extensively. He co-produced the first Oboe Blowout in 1994.
Email: mattsullivanNYC@aol.com
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