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Ron Coddington
I am a storyteller. My goal is to tell compelling stories that inform and entertain using various media forms and technologies. As USA TODAY's art director, I lead a staff of visual journalists through the creative and production process of multimedia storytelling for a range of editorial projects. My career spans several major U.S. media organizations, including USA TODAY and the San Jose Mercury News, where I was part of the staff awarded the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting of the Bay Area earthquake and its aftermath. My work has been recognized by The Society for News Design (SND), The Online News Association (ONA), and other groups. I've appeared as a guest speaker at The Poynter Institute, SND and other venues, and have participated as a judge for the annual SNDies competition. I am the author of two non-fiction books about the American Civil War, both published by The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Francesco Masci - Welcome
Francesco Masci Official Website - New York, Rome - Francesco Masci is an artist and graphic designer who has shown extensively in Italy, in both group and solo exhibits. Born in Rome, he has lived in Florence and Elba; he currently resides in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Masci's solo credits include “La verità del paradosso, Il paradosso della verità,” at the avant garde cultural space of Cantieresanbernardo , Pisa and a show of paintings at the MUWO (Multimedia Workshop) of Rome. Group show credits include “I neonrealisti,” at the Mondrian Suite Gallery, Rome (widely documented by the Italian press) and Francis Naumann Gallery's “The Damoiselles Revisited,” commemorating the 100-year anniversary of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon--to which Masci contributed a new work on the theme. This was Masci's first participation in an American venue. As a political cartoonist, in previous years, Masci's work has appeared regularly in such Italian publications such as Il Tempo and La Piazza, and his graphic design work has been commissioned by the Italian sports concern CONI (Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano), among many other clients. His mural designs have been commissioned by private clients in Rome. Since arriving in New York, he is concentrating solely on fine art projects.
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Jim McNeely
Jim McNeely was born in Chicago, and moved to New York City in 1975. In 1978 he joined the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra. He spent six years as a featured soloist with that band and its successor, Mel Lewis and the Jazz Orchestra (now The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra). 1981 saw the beginning of Jim's 4-year tenure as pianist/composer with the Stan Getz Quartet. From 1990 until 1995 he held the piano chair in the Phil Woods Quintet. At the present time, he leads his own tentet, his own trio, and he appears as soloist at concerts and festivals worldwide.
Jim's reputation as composer/arranger and conductor for large jazz bands continues to flourish, and has earned him nine Grammy nominations. In 1996 he re-joined The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra as pianist and Composer-in Residence. He is also artist-in-residence with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band. Other recent work includes projects with the Danish Radio Big Band (where he was chief conductor for five years), the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, the Metropole Orchestra (Netherlands), the Swiss Jazz Orchestra, and the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra. The New York Times has called his writing exhilarating; DownBeat has said that his music is eloquent enough to be profound.
Jim has appeared as sideman on numerous recordings led by major artists such as Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, Stan Getz, Bob Brookmeyer, David Liebman, Art Farmer, Robert Watson, and Phil Woods. He has numerous albums under his own name. The latest is Up from the Skies, with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra on the Planet Arts label (concert jazz at its headiestDownBeat) .
Teaching is also an important element of Jim's work. He is Musical Director of the BMI Jazz Composers' Workshop. In addition, he is on the faculties of both The Manhattan School of Music and William Paterson University. He has appeared at numerous college jazz festivals as performer and clinician, and has been involved regularly with summer workshops such as the Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Clinics, the Lake Placid Seminar in Jazz Improvisation and the
William Paterson University Summer Jazz Workshop. He has also done clinics and major residencies at dozens of institutions in the U.S., Canada, Europe, China, Australia. New Zealand, and Egypt.
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Paul Hostetter - Conductor
Paul Hostetter is currently the Music Director of the Colonial Symphony where he is developing innovative programs for audiences of all ages to critical acclaim. He is also the Director of Orchestral Studies and Associate Professor for the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University, Conductor and Artistic Advisor for the acclaimed Sequitur Ensemble, and Artistic Advisor to the Music Mondays chamber series. He was previously the Music Director of the High Mountain Symphony, Artistic Director of the Winter Sun Music Festival, Music Director of the New Jersey Youth Symphony, and the Associate Conductor for the Broadway productions of Candide and The Gershwins' Fascinating Rhythm.
Paul has appeared as a guest conductor with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, the New York City Opera, Philharmonia Virtuosi, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, the Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, the Genesis Opera Company, the Prism Chamber Orchestra, the Daylesford Sinfonia (Bermuda), the PAI HS Festival Orchestra (Kingston, PA), the Family Opera Initiative, and the Stony Brook Summer Music Festival Orchestra among others, and has assisted James Levine with the Metropolitan Opera Chamber Ensemble. Recently he conducted the co-premiere of Robert Aldridge's opera Elmer Gantry for Peak Performances to rave reviews in the NY Times.
He has had a tremendous impact on the world of contemporary music having premiered over eighty works by composers including Pulitzer Prize winners David Del Tredici, Lewis Spratlan, and Ned Rorem with groups including the Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, Ensemble 21, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Music from China, The Society for New Music, the Glass Farm Ensemble, and Phillip Glass's Music at the Anthology series. Recently he conducted the world premiere of Brent Michael Davids' film score to the 1923 classic The Last of Mohicans as part of the Syracuse Film Festival. He also conducted Elliot Carter's Double Concerto at the Library of Congress as part of Mr. Carter's 100th-year celebration in December 2008, and in September 2009 he will be leading Newband in the premiere of Dean Drummond's opera Café Bufe with the Harry Partch Instruments.
As a recording artist he has collaborated with jazz greats Jim Hall, Pat Metheny, and Joe Lovano, with strings from the Orchestra of St. Lukes, which received a Downbeat Critics Award, as well as with Heidi Grant Murphy and members of the Aureole Ensemble and Metropolitan Opera. His recording, Where Crows Gather, featuring the music of Lewis Spratlan, was listed by the New York Times chief critic Anthony Tommasini as one of the top five of 2005. His extensive discography includes recordings on labels including: Conductor - Telarc, Koch, Mode, CRI, Albany, Zadick, and Naxos; Instrumentalist - Argo, Decca, Delos, Deutsche-Grammaphon, Naxos, New World, Polygram, Pro-Arte, RCA Victor, Sony Classical, and Warner Brothers labels.
In the world of education he has served as an advisor to Carnegie Hall for their successful Link-up Series as well as for the Lincoln Center Institute. He is the conductor of the New York Premiere Ensemble, with whom he has given numerous performances of Raphael Mostel's The Travels of Babar to critical acclaim in both English and French. A tireless advocate for minority representation in classical music, he helped to found and create the Music Advancement Program of the Juilliard School, which provides holistic musical training for children of color. In addition he has been a guest conductor for the Manhattan School of Music's Graduate Orchestral Performance Program and the Florida Youth Orchestra, and has presented master classes at the Mannes School of Music, the Peabody Conservatory, the Juilliard School of Music, the University of Michigan, William Paterson University, and the University of San Paulo. He has led conducting workshops for the NY Philharmonic/NY Pops/ NY City Board of Education and has also led the NJ All-State Orchestra, the Westchester All-State Orchestra, and the NJ Regions II Orchestra. In addition he regularly serves as a clinician for World Projects, the World Cup, and numerous other presenting organizations.
An avid instrumentalist, Maestro Hostetter performed as a percussionist/timpanist with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with whom he toured and recorded extensively (including a Grammy Award) as well as with the American Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. As a soloist he has appeared with the Little Orchestra Society, the American Symphony Orchestra, the Florida State University Symphony, and the contemporary music ensemble Music Mobile, and has performed on numerous movie soundtracks, jingles, and Broadway shows.
He holds degrees in performance from the Florida State University and the Juilliard School of Music and has appeared in master classes with Daniel Barenboim, Leonard Slatkin, Larry Rachcliff, and Christopher Wilkins. He lives in Union, NJ with his wife Elizabeth and daughter Vivian.
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