Faculty

Conducting & Ensemble Directors

Dr. Kyle Prescott
Dr. Kyle Prescott, Director of Bands

 

>Dr. Marc Decker
Dr. Marc Decker,  Associate Director of Bands, Director of Athletic Bands, Graduate Advisor

 

Dr. Laura Joella
Dr. Laura Joella, Director of Orchestral Studies

 

Dr. Stacie Rossow
Dr. Stacie Rossow, Associate Chair, Associate Director of Choral and Vocal Studies, voice and conducting

 

Courtney Jones
Dr. Courtney Jones, Trumpet; Artistic Director, Jazz and Chamber Ensembles

 

Dr. Patricia Fleitas
Dr. Patricia Fleitas, Director of Choral and Vocal Studies

 

Winds, Brass, & Percussion

Dr. Kyle Prescott
Dr. Kyle Prescott, Director of Bands

 

>Dr. Marc Decker
Dr. Marc Decker,  Associate Director of Bands, Director of Athletic Bands, Graduate Advisor

 

 

Stojo Miserlioski

 

Dr. Carlos Felipe Vina
Laura Winters, Bassoon

 

Kyle Mechmet
Kyle Mechmet, Saxophone

 

Dr. Stan Spinola
Dr. Stan Spinola, French horn

 

Courtney Jones
Dr. Courtney Jones, Trumpet; Artistic Director, Jazz and Chamber Ensembles

 

Dr. Jose Leonardo Leon
Dr. Jose Leonardo Leon, Trombone, Arts Entrepreneurship

 

Calvin Jenkins
Calvin Jenkins, Low Brass

 

Matthew Nichols
Matthew Nichols, Percussion 

 

Voice

Dr. Patricia Fleitas
Dr. Patricia Fleitas, Director of Choral and Vocal Studies

 

Dr. Stacie Rossow
Dr. Stacie Rossow, Associate Chair, Associate Director of Choral and Vocal Studies, voice and conducting

 

Susan Dorchin

 

Dr. Mitchell Hutchings
Dr. Mitchell Hutchings, Applied Performance Area Coordinator; Voice, FAU Opera Theatre, FAU Opera in Italy

 

 

Piano

 

Dr. Irena Kofman
Dr. Irena Kofman, Director of Piano Studies
 
 
Phil Hinton
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Phil Hinton, Piano
Eerang Ahn
Eerang Ahn, Collaborative and Class Piano

 

Kuo-pei Cheng-Lin
Kuo-pei Cheng-Lin, Collaborative and Class Piano

 

Strings

Dr. Laura Joella
Dr. Laura Joella, Director of Orchestral Studies
Mei Mei Luo
Mei Mei Luo, Violin

 

 
 

  Angela Kratchmer

  Angela Kratchmer, Viola

 
 
Cornelia Brubeck

 

Jeff Adkins
Jeff Adkins, Double Bass

 

Juan Antonio Pena
Dr. Juan Antonio Pena, Classical Guitar
 

    Greg Diamond

    Dr. Greg Diamond, Electric Guitar

 
Ian Stewart, Electric Bass
 

 

 

Commercial Music 

Michael Zager
Michael Zager, Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Performing Arts, Commercial Music

 

Alejandro Sánchez-Samper
Alejandro Sánchez-Samper, Commercial Music

 

Matt Baltrucki
Matt Baltrucki, Commercial Music

 

Ira Abrams
Ira Abrams, Legal Issues and Artist Management

 

 
Salvatore Fazio, Music Publishing and Copyright

 

Jennifer Appel
Jennifer Appel, Commercial Music Faculty
 
Dr. Kevin Wilt
Dr. Kevin Wilt, Department Chair, Music Composition and Music Theory

 

Music Education  

Dr. DaLaine Chapman
Dr. DaLaine Chapman, Coordinator of Music Education

 

 

Claudia Lusararian
Claudia Lusararian, Elementary Music
 

   Matthew Nichols

   Matthew Nichols, Percussion 

 
>Dr. Marc Decker
Dr. Marc Decker,  Associate Director of Bands, Director of Athletic Bands, Graduate Advisor

 

 

 

 
Courtney Jones
Dr. Courtney Jones, Trumpet; Artistic Director, Jazz and Chamber Ensembles

 

 

Ethnomusicology, History, and Theory 

 

Dr. James Cunningham
Dr. James Cunningham, Ethnomusicology and World Music Ensembles

 

Dr. Daniel Copher
Dr. Juan Antonio Pena, Music Appreciation
 
                     Dr. Michael Broder
 
Dr. Michael  Broder, MusicTheory
 
 
David Rossow
David Rossow Music Theory 
 
 
 

   Dr. Andres Espinoza

 Dr. Andres Espinoza Agurto,                     Ethnomusicology and Latin Music Ensemble

 
 
 

 

Administration

Dr. Kevin Wilt
Dr. Kevin Wilt, Department Chair, Music Composition and Music Theory

 

Dr. Stacie Rossow
Dr. Stacie Rossow, Associate Chair, Associate Director of Choral and Vocal Studies, voice and conducting
>Dr. Marc Decker
Dr. Marc Decker,  Associate Director of Bands, Director of Athletic Bands, Graduate Advisor

 

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