Paul Conrad, from North Brunswick, NJ, received a MM in Collaborative Piano and a BM in Piano Performance from Mason Gross School of the Arts (MGSA). He is the choir director and organist at Middlebush Reformed Church, a staff pianist and classroom piano instructor at MGSA, and accompanist of the Rutgers University Glee Club (RUGC), Kirkpatrick Choir, and the Highland Park Community Chorus (HPCC). Paul is an experienced ballet pianist and played for a number of years at the Cecchetti International Summer School in Holland, MI. He has joined Berkshire Choral International faculty for festivals in Sonoma, Asheville, Baltimore and Boston, and participated in Sheffield, MA as both BCI scholar and apprentice. Recent notable performances include accompanying the NJMEA All-State Mixed Chorus (2022), Hub City Opera and Dance Company’s productions Un\Rooted (2020) and Masks (2021), playing and conducting Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with HPCC (May 2019), and accompanying RUGC on tours in the UK and the Netherlands (2015), Scandinavia and Estonia (2018), and at the ACDA Eastern Region Conference in Rochester, NY (2020).