Dr. Gregory Wolynec
Associate Professor of Music
Director of Bands/Orchestra
Gregory Wolynec is the Director of Bands and
Orchestral Studies at Austin Peay State University. As an Associate
Professor of Music he directs the Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra,
teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting and teaches courses in
orchestration and instrumental music education. He is also the music
director and a cofounder of the Gateway Chamber Ensemble, an ensemble based
around APSU’s outstanding performance faculty along with professional
players from the Southeast and Mid-West, which specializes in the
performance of masterworks of the past and present for fewer than twenty
players. The ensemble’s debut CD, including Strauss’ Serenade in Eb and
Mozart’s landmark ‘Gran Partita’ Serenade, will be released in
February 2010 by Summit Records in SACD format.
Dr. Wolynec was the recipient of the
2006 Socrates Award for Excellence in Teaching, a campus-wide award.
Under his direction the APSU Wind Ensemble has recorded two CDs, including
the recently released Aubade, performed at the College Band Directors
National Association Southern Division Conference and the Tennessee Music
Educators Association Annual Conference and been active in premiering new
works. Composers such as Libby Larsen, Lee Hoiby, Anthony Plog and
Jeffrey Wood have praised performances under his direction. Graduates
of his masters program in instrumental conducting have gone on to pursue
doctoral degrees at major institutions, teach actively in the public schools
of Tennessee and Kentucky, as well as hold collegiate teaching positions.
Dr. Wolynec received his MM and DMA
degrees in Instrumental Conducting from Michigan State University and a BM
in Music Education and Clarinet Performance from SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School
of Music. Dr. Wolynec has taken additional studies in conducting at
the Prague Conservatory, Czech Republic. His conducting teachers have
included John Whitwell and Timothy Topolewski. Dr. Wolynec completed
his doctoral dissertation on classical harmoniemusik as the recipient of
both a Fulbright Grant to Prague, Czech Republic and a Michigan State
University Graduate Merit Fellowship. His research was carried out
throughout the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany and France.
Prior to coming to Austin Peay Dr.
Wolynec taught at Castleton State College in Vermont and in the public
schools of New York, where his ensembles were routinely awarded Gold ratings
at New York State Major Ensemble Festivals. Dr. Wolynec has been an
active clinician and guest conductor of bands and orchestras, including
all-state and all-region ensembles, in New York, New England, Michigan,
Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas.
Email: WolynecG@apsu.edu
Phone: (931) 221-7642
Music/Mass Communication Building, Room 150
