Rick Hoffenberg is Associate Professor, Director of Choral Activities, and Co-Director of the School of Visual & Performing Arts at Marywood University. He is also Music Director of the Wyoming Seminary Civic Orchestra. He previously taught at the University of Northern Iowa and Williams College. Rick has directed many choral tours and high school festival concerts and workshops in the Eastern and Midwestern United States. He also worked for New York City Opera, BMG Classics, Columbia Artists Management, Milken Archive, and Spoleto Festival USA. As a pianist, he has performed at Orchestra Hall (Chicago), Music Institute of Chicago, Rockefeller Chapel in New York, and Richardson Auditorium in Princeton. He was the state winner, division winner, and national finalist in the 1994 MTNA Wurlitzer Piano Competition. He holds degrees from Princeton University, Yale University, and Westminster Choir College, where his teachers included Ingrid Clarfield, Andrew Megill, and the late Joseph Flummerfelt.