Pianist, composer/arranger, and educator Mike Holober serves as artistic director/conductor of the Westchester Jazz Orchestra and composer-in-residence with the Gotham Wind Symphony. He is an associate professor at the City College of New York, associate music director of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop, and a multiple MacDowell Fellow. His two-year appointment as associate guest conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Big Band (HR) for 2012–13 further solidifies his growing reputation as one of today's top big band writers and conductors. He was a Center music panelist in 2011.