GREGORY WOLYNEC
director of bands

Gregory Wolynec is the Director of Bands and an Assistant Professor of Music at Austin Peay State University where he directs the Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band and teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting.  In addition, Dr. Wolynec teaches courses in orchestration and instrumental music education.  Prior to coming to Austin Peay he held a similar position at Castleton State College in Vermont.

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 orchestral conducting at the Prague Conservatory, Czech Republic.  His conducting teachers have included John Whitwell. Timothy Topolewski and Miriam Němcová.  Dr. Wolynec completed his doctoral dissertation, The Original Works for Harmonie Ensemble of Johann Nepomuk Went, 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.

Dr. Wolynec has taught in the public schools of New York where his ensembles were routinely awarded Gold ratings at New York State Major Ensemble Festivals and performed on trips to major cities in the northeast.  As a graduate assistant to MSU Bands he directed the Concert and Campus Bands, taught advanced conducting and guest conducted the Wind Symphony, Symphony Band and Chamber Winds.  In addition, he was an arranger and instructor for the Spartan Marching Band and Spartan Brass.  Dr. Wolynec has been an active clinician and guest conductor of bands and orchestras in New York, New England and Michigan.     

E-mail: WolynecG@apsu.edu
Phone: (931) 221-7642