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Transit
TRANSIT is the fresh face of new music. The New York-based collective is systematically dismantling the status quo in new music. For too long, composers and performers have been isolated from each other geographically and stylistically into categories that have less and less relevance in our quickly globalizing world. Taking their cues from the slapdash diversity of New York City, the artists of TRANSIT seek to create bridges between and among the various schools and styles of music being written and performed today. Their goal is not to achieve an “international style” or to promote homogeny in the music world. Rather, they rejoice in the mixed up results and new perspectives that undeniably occur when musicians are exposed to new influences. Similarly, they reject the rigid boundary that frequently separates the worlds of composition and performance. Their core members include both exciting young composers and explosive performers, as well as those who excel in both worlds. In a world stricken with conflict, TRANSIT seeks to reinvigorate the vital discussion between music and humanity by shaking up the way that music flows into the social consciousness.
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Mercedes Smith - Flute
Mercedes Smith, a Texas native, is Principal Flutist of the Houston Grand Opera and Houston Ballet Orchestras. She begins her new position as Principal Flutist of the Pacific Symphony this December. Most recently, she was awarded First Prize in the National Flute Association’s 2010 Young Artist Competition. Ms. Smith was also the Second Prize winner of the 2007 Haynes International Flute Competition and top prizewinner of the Manhattan School of Music Concerto Competition. As First Prizewinner of Artists International, she gave her New York Recital Debut in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2002. Her debut featured solo and chamber works all by American composers including three world premieres. Also as a recitalist, Ms. Smith performed at the Kunming International Arts Festival, China, in a performance that was televised throughout Asia.
Ms. Smith performed at the Hot Springs Music Festival for three years and was featured in the nationally televised PBS documentary
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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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