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GREGORY
WOLYNEC
Associate
Professor of Music
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 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
conducting at the Prague Conservatory, Czech Republic. His
conducting teachers have included John Whitwell and Timothy
Topolewski. 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, Michigan, Tennessee and Kentucky.
Email:
WolynecG@apsu.edu
Phone:
(931) 221-7642
Music/Mass Communication Building, Room 150 |
