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    Paul Leskowicz is the Director of Bands at the State College Area High School where he directs four different concert bands, the Marching Band, and the Jazz Band. Additionally, he teaches 7th grade General Music at the Park Forest Middle School. 
     
    Prior to his appointment, Mr. Leskowicz served fourteen years as High School Band Director in the Penns Valley Area School District (1997-2011) and two years as Elementary Band Director in the South Country Central School District in Bellport, Long Island, NY (1995-1997). 
     
    He earned a Bachelor of Music double degree in Music Education and Trombone Performance from the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, in West Hartford, CT and a Master of Music degree in Trombone Performance from S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook on Long Island, New York, where he was a student of Dr. Ronald Borror.
     
    Mr. Leskowicz has performed professionally on trombone with an array of artists that include Joe Williams, Marvin Hamlisch, Betty Buckley, Rita Moreno, Carol Lawrence, Hal Linden, and Carol Channing while as a member of the Disney All-American College Orchestra.  Additionally, he performed with the New York Cornet and Sacbut Ensemble, New Britain Symphony Orchestra, Nittany Valley Symphony Orchestra, Altoona Symphony Orchestra, Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra, Valley Jazz Orchestra, and the Zeropoint Big Band.  Other performances include a personal composition for Trombone and String Quartet with the Grammy award-winning, Emerson String Quartet.  
     
    Mr. Leskowicz is a member of the Nu Chapter of Phi Beta Mu, the International Bandmaster Fraternity, as well as the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association and the National Association for Music Education.

    A native of Long Island, New York, he has been a resident in the State College school district since 2002     with his wife Olivia, a State High alumna, and their five children.
     
     

     

     
Last Modified on March 2, 2023