Biography
Paul D. Hoelzley, Professor of Music, holds a PhD from the University of Alberta and a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan. He is internationally recognized in professional performance, instrumental music education and music therapy. As a professional performer, he has played with the United States Army Field Band of Washington D.C., the official world-traveling band of the U.S. Army, and the renowned Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, with which he has performed at many of the major music festivals and music centres of Europe, the Middle East, and South and North America. As a member of the Paris Arts Brass Quintet, he was awarded the International Grand Prix de Paris as well as the Medaille d'Argent (silver medal) awarded by the municipal counsel of the city of Paris. He was principal tuba soloist with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and was twice the featured soloist on CBC national radio with the Calgary Philharmonic and the CBC Radio Orchestra. He is the recipient of many awards including a Fulbright Scholarship from the U.S. government to study at the famous Conservatoire Nationale Superieur de Musique de Paris.
As a music educator, Dr. Hoelzley has conducted bands from elementary through university level and has served as guest band director and clinician in Canada, the United States and Japan. He has conducted such works as Handel's Messiah and Vivaldi's Gloria with the Israel Protestant Community Choir in churches and concert centres in Bethlehem, Haifa, Jerusalem, Nazareth and other cities in Israel. As a music therapist, Hoelzley has worked internationally with autistic children. His articles have been published in the Canadian Journal of Music Therapy and the American Association for Music Therapy Journal. He was the first music therapist to receive the distinguished Japan Foundation Research Fellowship and one of only one hundred Canadians in the last twenty-five years to receive this prestigious fellowship. Hoelzley has twice been awarded the Institute of Citizenship (Ottawa) Fellowship for research in music therapy. He has conducted a private music therapy practice in British Columbia's Fraser Valley for the past ten years.
Education
B.M.E. (Tulsa);
M.M. (Michigan);
Ph.D. (Alberta)
Areas of Expertise
Low Brass
Courses Taught at TWU
Applied Music Lessons - Low Brass