Lee Hyla

Harry and Ruth Wyatt Professor of Theory and Composition

l-hyla@northwestern.edu
847-491-5722

Lee Hyla
Background

MA, SUNY/Stony Brook 
Recent Activity 

Co-coordinator, composition program. Lee Hyla has written for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Kronos Quartet, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Speculum Musicae, also receving commissions from the Koussevitzky, Fromm, Barlow, and Naumberg Foundations, the Mary Flagler Carey Charitable Trust, Concert Artists Guild, Chamber Music America, and the Meet the Composer/Readers Digest Consortium.  His honors include the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Goddard Lieberson Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the St. Botolph Club Award, and the Rome Prize. Hyla has served as resident composer of the American Academy in Rome and was a composition fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cxassis France. He is published exclusively by Carl Fisher and recorded by Nonesuch, New World, Avant, Tzadik and CRI labels.  Formerly, he served as chair of the composition department of New England Conservatory.  For more information, visit www.leehyla.com.