title: Daniel Alfred Wachs
Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra
Paul Hostetter
Florida Youth Orchestra
Thomas Sleeper
John Kennedy (American musician)
David Searle (conductor)
University of Miami
Sherri Tan
Joseph Dangerfield
sentences: In the fall of 2006, Daniel Alfred Wachs assumed the position of Music Director & Director of Orchestral Activities at Chapman University in Orange, California.
 Concurrently, he serves as Music Director of the Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra which has just entered its 40th season.
The Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra (CWSO) is located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
 The orchestra, comprising 80 musicians, provides four concert sets per concert season.
 The music director is Patrick Miles, who is also the Director of Orchestral Activities and Professor of Horn at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Paul Hostetter is the Ethel Foley Distinguished Chair in Orchestral Activities for the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University, the Conductor and Artistic Advisor for the Sequitur Ensemble, and the Founder and Artistic Adviser to the Music Mondays chamber series in New York City.
 He has held appointments as the Director of the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University where he also was the Director of Orchestral Studies/Associate Professor, the Music Director of the Colonial Symphony, the Music Director of the High Mountain Symphony, Artistic Director of the Winter Sun Music Festival, Music Director of the New Jersey Youth Symphony, and the Associate Conductor for the Broadway productions of Candide and George and Ira Gershwin's Fascinating Rhythm.
The Florida Youth Orchestra is a philharmonic orchestra for young musicians, ages 6 – 19.
 It was founded in 1988 by South Florida's first TV weatherman Bob Weaver.
 The orchestra has more than 400 members.
 Under the direction and guidance of its Music Director Thomas Sleeper, the FYO performs for thousands of concert-goers each year in addition to regular appearances on local and national television and radio broadcasts.
Thomas M. Sleeper (born February 16, 1956) is a modern American composer and conductor.
 His music has been described as 'hauntingly mysterious' and 'richly lyrical'.
 He is currently the Director of Orchestral Activities and Conductor of the University of Miami Frost Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theater.
 He is also the director of the Florida Youth Orchestra.
John Kennedy is an American conductor and composer, presently serving as Resident Conductor and Director of Orchestral Activities of Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina.
David Searle is an American conductor.
 He is Director of Orchestral Activities and Conducting Studies in the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music of the Catholic University of America.
The University of Miami (informally referred to as UM, U of M, or The U) is a private, nonsectarian research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States.
 s of 2015 , the university enrolls 16,848 students in 12 separate colleges/schools, including the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine in Miami's Health District, a law school on the main campus, and the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science focused on the study of oceanography and atmospheric sciences on Virginia Key, with research facilities at the Richmond Facility in southern Miami-Dade County.
Sherri Tan is an American figurative artist whose work includes collage, sculpture, photography, books and multimedia.
 Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the US including the Bass Museum of Art, Miami; the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Ft. Lauderdale; Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, NY; Coral Spring Museum of Art, Brevard Museum, Polk Museum, Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh; Center for Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach; and Rosenwald Gallery, University of Pennsylvania.
 Tan has also been active in designing large-scale sets and artwork for opera and multimedia works including settings for a touring stage production of Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde presented in the US and China and artworks for composer Thomas Sleeper's operas "Small Change", "River of Shifting Sands" and "The Sisters Antipodes".
 Larry Budmen of the South Florida Classical Review writes of Tan's sets for a production of Orpheus: "Sherri Tan’s striking scenic design mixes painting, photography and sculpture, forming a flexible playing space that spills out into the aisles of the small venue.
 Contemporary costumes emphasized the timelessness of the tale."
Dr. Joseph Dangerfield (born 1977) is a composer, pianist, and conductor who has lived and worked professionally in Germany, Holland, Russia, and the United States.
 Dangerfield is currently Assistant Professor of music theory and composition and director of orchestral activities at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Question: Question: Thomas Sleeper is currently the Director of Orchestral Activities and Conductor of a university in which US state ? 

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 In the fall of 2006, Daniel Alfred Wachs assumed the position of Music Director & Director of Orchestral Activities at Chapman University in Orange, California.
 Concurrently, he serves as Music Director of the Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra which has just entered its 40th season. 

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 The Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra (CWSO) is located in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
 The orchestra, comprising 80 musicians, provides four concert sets per concert season.
 The music director is Patrick Miles, who is also the Director of Orchestral Activities and Professor of Horn at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. 

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 The Florida Youth Orchestra is a philharmonic orchestra for young musicians, ages 6 – 19.
 It was founded in 1988 by South Florida's first TV weatherman Bob Weaver.
 The orchestra has more than 400 members.
 Under the direction and guidance of its Music Director Thomas Sleeper, the FYO performs for thousands of concert-goers each year in addition to regular appearances on local and national television and radio broadcasts. 

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 Thomas M. Sleeper (born February 16, 1956) is a modern American composer and conductor.
 His music has been described as 'hauntingly mysterious' and 'richly lyrical'.
 He is currently the Director of Orchestral Activities and Conductor of the University of Miami Frost Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theater.
 He is also the director of the Florida Youth Orchestra. 

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 John Kennedy is an American conductor and composer, presently serving as Resident Conductor and Director of Orchestral Activities of Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina. 

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 The University of Miami (informally referred to as UM, U of M, or The U) is a private, nonsectarian research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States.
 s of 2015 , the university enrolls 16,848 students in 12 separate colleges/schools, including the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine in Miami's Health District, a law school on the main campus, and the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science focused on the study of oceanography and atmospheric sciences on Virginia Key, with research facilities at the Richmond Facility in southern Miami-Dade County. 

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 Sherri Tan is an American figurative artist whose work includes collage, sculpture, photography, books and multimedia.
 Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the US including the Bass Museum of Art, Miami; the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Ft. Lauderdale; Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, NY; Coral Spring Museum of Art, Brevard Museum, Polk Museum, Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh; Center for Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach; and Rosenwald Gallery, University of Pennsylvania.
 Tan has also been active in designing large-scale sets and artwork for opera and multimedia works including settings for a touring stage production of Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde presented in the US and China and artworks for composer Thomas Sleeper's operas "Small Change", "River of Shifting Sands" and "The Sisters Antipodes".
 Larry Budmen of the South Florida Classical Review writes of Tan's sets for a production of Orpheus: "Sherri Tan’s striking scenic design mixes painting, photography and sculpture, forming a flexible playing space that spills out into the aisles of the small venue.
 Contemporary costumes emphasized the timelessness of the tale." 

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 Dr. Joseph Dangerfield (born 1977) is a composer, pianist, and conductor who has lived and worked professionally in Germany, Holland, Russia, and the United States.
 Dangerfield is currently Assistant Professor of music theory and composition and director of orchestral activities at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

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Answer: Florida