Mr. William Hollin was the Music Director and Conductor of the PVYO Philharmonia for 26 years, while also enjoying a distinguished career as a music educator. He most recently served as the Lead Instrumental Music Teacher at The Barbara Ingram School for the Arts in Hagerstown, Maryland, where he retired in 2023. At BISFA, he led a department of seven full- and part-time faculty members and consistently guided student ensembles to superior ratings at district and state adjudications.

Before his time at BISFA, Mr. Hollin directed the school orchestras for Missoula County Public Schools in Montana from 2004 to 2009, where his ensembles also achieved top honors. A native of Montgomery County, Maryland, he previously served as Director of Instrumental Music at Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg, where he was named “Teacher of the Year” in both 2002 and 2004.

While at Quince Orchard, the school’s Orchestra, Band, and Jazz Band also earned superior ratings each year at district, state, and national adjudications. The marching band was USSBA Class A Maryland State Champion twice.

Mr. Hollin earned his BS from Towson University and attended Illinois State University on an NSE Scholarship. He received his Master’s degree from The University of Oklahoma where he was a Graduate Assistant of Bands assisting with the Marching Band, directing the Concert Band, and leading the Sooner Showmen through the 1983 NCAA tournament.  His graduate thesis “The Wilhelmian Marches: The Military Band Music of Richard Strauss” was later cited with recordings by “The Heritage of the March Society.”

Mr. Hollin’s wife Robin teaches STEM for The Frederick County Public Schools. His older son Michael completed his Master’s Degree in French horn performance and his younger son Josh, a PVYO graduate, has a commercial music degree from Florida Atlantic University and is free-lancing as a singer-songwriter and creates social media for Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation.