sentences:  Until 2009, he served as dean of Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia.From 2004 to 2006 he was director of the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia.Born to a father of Hungarian ancestry, Kaptain was exposed to the cimbalom at an early age at ethnic social functions in his hometown of Elgin, Illinois and later was awarded a grant to study cimbalom in Budapest, Hungary.