Paul Hostetter, conductor, served as the Center's music panel chair in 2009. He is the Ethel Foley Distinguished Chair in Orchestral Activities at Columbus State University, conductor/artistic advisor for the Sequitur Ensemble, principal conductor of the New York Concerti Sinfonietta, and founder/artistic adviser to the Music Mondays chamber series (New York City). He was director of the John J. Cali School of Music; director of orchestral studies/associate professor at Montclair State University; music director of the High Mountain Symphony, the Colonial Symphony, and 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. Hostetter has appeared as a guest conductor with several notable music ensembles, and has premiered over 80 works by esteemed composers.