| My name is Franklin Hotzel. I was born in Chicago in 1968. I went to a Christian day school in Chicago, and sung in the children's and later adult choir at the church it was affiliated with. I am a member of a new Lutheran church that just started in suburban ST. Paul last year and still sing in the choir there. My High school was at an arts magnet school on the near north side. I attended College at DePaul and VanderCook College. My priamary influance while growing up were Herseth, Brian Perry (principal Lyric Opera) Adelstien, Gary Bordner and Susan Slaughter. At DePaul I studied with Ross Beacraft. My major was Education and Theory Composition. I had to take classes for MN teaching license at St. Thomas here in St. Paul where I studied trumpet with Matthew George and Chris Volpe.
Currently I live in Suburban St. Paul, and work as a substitute teacher in several suburban districts. (got budget cut out of position a couple years ago...)I play in the Saint Paul Civic Symphony and also on the board of directors. I also play in the Exultate orchestra. Usually second but this past season have been catapulted into the principal for a program with both and as a soloist (Haydn with Exultate)
Mrs. Hotzel is a member of the Minnesota Chorale, so she has worked with the MN Orchestra and the SPCO on such things as Mahler, Verdi, Ravel, Beethoven, Handel, Mendelssohn, Brittan, Bach etc.
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