Faculty
Conducting & Ensemble Directors
Dr. Kyle Prescott, Director of Bands
Dr. Marc Decker, Associate Director of Bands, Director of Athletic Bands, Graduate Coordinator
Dr. Laura Joella, Director of Orchestral Studies
Dr. Stacie Rossow, Associate Chair, Associate Director of Choral and Vocal Studies, Voice and Conducting
Dr. Courtney Jones, Trumpet; Artistic Director, Jazz and Chamber Ensembles
Dr. Patricia Fleitas, Director of Choral and Vocal Studies
Winds, Brass, & Percussion
Dr. Kyle Prescott, Director of Bands
Dr. Marc Decker, Associate Director of Bands, Director of Athletic Bands, Graduate Coordinator
Elissa Lakofsky, Flute
Dr. Erin Gittelsohn, Oboe
Ana Mattos-Lebron, Clarinet
Laura Winters, Bassoon
Kyle Mechmet, Saxophone
Dr. Stan Spinola, French Horn
Dr. Courtney Jones, Trumpet; Artistic Director, Jazz and Chamber Ensembles
Dr. Jose Leonardo Leon, Trombone, Arts Entrepreneurship
Calvin Jenkins, Low Brass
Matthew Nichols, Percussion
Voice
Dr. Patricia Fleitas, Director of Choral and Vocal Studies
Dr. Stacie Rossow, Associate Chair, Associate Director of Choral and Vocal Studies, Voice and Conducting
Susan Dorchin, Voice
Dr. Mitchell Hutchings, Applied Performance Area Coordinator; Voice, FAU Opera Theatre, FAU Opera in Italy
Monica Berovides-Hidalgo, Voice
Dorothy Gal, Voice
Piano
Dr. Irena Kofman, Director of Piano Studies
Phil Hinton, Piano
Eerang Ahn, Collaborative and Class Piano
Kuo-pei Cheng-Lin, Collaborative and Class Piano
Strings
Dr. Laura Joella, Director of Orchestral Studies
Mei Mei Luo, Violin
Angela Kratchmer, Viola
Cornelia Brubeck, Cello
Amy Nickler, Double Bass
Dr. Juan Antonio Pena, Classical Guitar
Dr. Greg Diamond, Electric Guitar
Ian Stewart, Electric Bass
Commercial Music
Michael Zager, Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Performing Arts, Commercial Music
Alejandro Sánchez-Samper, Commercial Music
Matt Baltrucki, Commercial Music
Ira Abrams, Legal Issues and Artist Management
Salvatore Fazio, Music Publishing and Copyright
Jennifer Appel, Commercial Music Faculty
Dr. Kevin Wilt, Department Chair
Director of the School of the Arts
Music Composition and Music Theory
Music Education
Dr. DaLaine Chapman, Coordinator of Music Education
Claudia Lusararian, Elementary Music
Matthew Nichols, Percussion
Dr. Marc Decker, Associate Director of Bands, Director of Athletic Bands, Graduate Coordinator
Dr. Courtney Jones, Trumpet; Artistic Director, Jazz and Chamber Ensembles
Monica Berovides-Hidalgo, Voice
Ethnomusicology, History, and Theory
Dr. James Cunningham, Ethnomusicology and World Music Ensembles
Dr. Juan Antonio Pena, Music Appreciation
Dr. Michael Broder, Music Theory
David Rossow, Music Theory
Dr. Andres Espinoza Agurto, Ethnomusicology and Latin Music Ensemble
Administration
Dr. Kevin Wilt, Department Chair, Music Composition and Music Theory
Dr. Stacie Rossow, Associate Chair, Associate Director of Choral and Vocal Studies, Voice and Conducting
Dr. Marc Decker, Associate Director of Bands, Director of Athletic Bands, Graduate Coordinator
