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High Mountain Symphony (Formerly The
Orchestra At William Paterson University) Opens 2003-2004 Season
On October 25
— New conductor Paul Hostetter takes
up baton
—Pianist Aaron Wunsch is guest soloist
High Mountain Symphony, formerly the Orchestra
at William Paterson University, opens
the 2003 – 2004 season with "Journey Around the
World" on Saturday, October 25, at 8 p.m. in the Shea Center
for Performing Arts at William Paterson University in Wayne.
Paul Hostetter, the ensemble’s newly appointed music director
and associate professor of music at the University, will conduct.
Subscriptions for the four-concert season are $80. Individual tickets
are $25, $20 for senior citizens and $8 for those ages 17 and younger.
Guest pianist Aaron Wunsch will be featured as soloist for De Falla’s
"Nights in the Gardens of Spain." Other works include
Bernstein’s "Overture to Candide," Bartok’s
"Romanian Folk Dances" and Respighi’s "Pines
of Rome." Wunsch has appeared on concert stages throughout
the U.S. and Europe, including Alice Tully Hall and Steinway Hall
in New York, Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood in Massachusetts, at the Verbier
Festival in Switzerland, and at the Norfold, Bowdoin, Sarasota,
Great Lakes, and Yellow Barn chamber music festivals.
Established in 1986 as the Wayne Chamber Orchestra, the High Mountain
Symphony at William Paterson University is the only professional
orchestra in New Jersey in permanent residence at a university.
The new name for the ensemble refers to a local and well-known nature
preserve in Wayne that borders the University’s campus.
Hostetter is also the conductor of the New Jersey Youth Symphony
and serves as artistic director for the Winter Sun Music Festival
in St. Petersburg, Florida, and music director for the Festival
Orchestra at the Stony Brook Summer Festival in Stony Brook, New
York. He has appeared as a guest conductor with orchestras including
the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra,
Philharmonia Virtuosi, the Sequitur Ensemble and the Delaware Symphony
Orchestra. On Broadway, he was the associate conductor for Leonard
Bernstein’s "Candide," where he led over 40 performances.
Hostetter has collaborated with Jim Hall, Pat Metheny, and Joe Lovano
with strings from the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in a recording
for Telarc, as well as with Heidi Grant Murphy and members of Aureole
and the Metropolitan Opera for Koch. He also has recorded for the
CRI, Zadick, Mode, Albany, and Milkin Archive labels, and has premiered
more than 30 works by well-known composers. The High Mountain Symphony,
a professional symphony, is underwritten, in part, by William Paterson
University. It is also funded, in part, by the Passaic County Cultural
and Heritage Council at Passaic County Community College through
the State/County Block Grant Program of the New Jersey State Council
on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National
Endowment for the Arts.
For information on subscriptions or individual tickets, call the
Shea Center Box Office at 973-720-2371.
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NOTE: High-resolution, downloadable photographs are available at:
http://ww2.wpunj.edu/adminsrv/pub-info/Photos/index.htm
10/10/03
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