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Andrew Yozviak
Assistant Professor — Applied Music

Room 247, Swope Music Building
Phone: 610-436-3615
ayozviak@wcupa.edu

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Education
B.S. Music Education - West Chester University,
M.M. Composition - Indiana University

Andrew Yozviak is a member of the Applied Music Department at West Chester University.  Mr. Yozviak’s primary responsibilities include conducting the Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Concert Band and Chamber Winds, directing the Golden Rams Marching Band, and teaching conducting classes.  Prior to this appointment, Yozviak served as Visiting Director of Bands at Susquehanna University and taught thirteen years in the Pennsylvania public schools.

Mr. Yozviak has earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Music Education from West Chester University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Music Degree in Composition from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.  He is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree in Wind Conducting from Rutgers University.

Mr. Yozviak maintains a busy schedule as a guest conductor and clinician, regularly presenting at conferences and workshops.  His research in the area of eighteenth century Harmoniemusik has produced two modern editions of wind partitas by the Bohemian composer, Antonio Rosetti (1750-1792).  His scholarly edition of Antonio Rosetti’s Partita in E-flat is published by Amadeus Verlag, Winterthur, Switzerland.

As a composer, Mr. Yozviak has accepted commissions to compose and arrange music in a variety of genres. He has composed commissioned works for winds, chorus, jazz ensemble, and a variety of chamber ensembles. Mr. Yozviak’s work as an arranger has yielded more than one hundred fifty marching band shows for some forty high schools, eight universities, and five drum and bugle corps.  His original compositions for marching band, Water, Winter Sketches and Night Visions are published by Marching Show Concepts.

Mr. Yozviak is a member of the College Band Directors National Association, the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, the Conductors Guild, the National Band Association, the Music Educators National Conference, Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, the Pennsylvania Bandmasters Association, Pi Kappa Lambda, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.

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