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Michael E. Ruhling is an associate professor of Fine Arts/Music in the College of Liberal Arts at the Rochester (NY) Institute of Technology, where he teaches a variety of courses in music history and appreciation, and conducts the RIT Orchestra.  He has also taught courses at the Eastman School of Music, Goshen College, Huntington College, and The Catholic University of America.  He received his Ph.D. in musicology from The Catholic University of America in 2000, and holds masters degrees in orchestral conducting (U. of Missouri) and music history (U. of Notre Dame).  From 2004 to 2007 Dr. Ruhling served on the conducting and lecture faculty of the Classical Music Festival held each August in Eisenstadt, Austria. He is an associate conductor of the Brighton Symphony Orchestra, and has appeared as guest conductor of the UNLV Symphony and Opera, and Rochester’s Air de Cour.  His book Johann Peter Salomon’s Scores of Four Haydn Symphonies: Edition with Commentary was published by the Edwin Mellen Press in 2004, and his essay on the symphonies of Michael Haydn will appear in The Symphonic Repertoire, Vol. 1:  The Eighteenth Century Symphony to be published by the Indiana University Press in 2009.  He has delivered numerous papers and presented many lecture-performances on 18th and 19th century symphonies and performance practices. Dr. Ruhling is president of the Haydn Society of North America, and recently served as secretary-treasurer of the Society for Eighteenth Century Music.  He lives in Irondequoit, New York with his wife Julie, an accomplished pianist, and sons Alexander, Peter and Nicholas.