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EVANSTON, Ill. --- Toni-Marie Montgomery, dean of the School
of Fine Arts at the University of Kansas and an accomplished
pianist, has been named dean of the Northwestern University School
of Music, effective July 1, 2003, Northwestern Provost Lawrence
B. Dumas announced today.
Montgomery, 46, will succeed Bernard Dobroski, who will step
down from his 13-year term as dean this summer and become John
Evans Professor of Music at Northwestern.
Montgomery was identified in a national search, begun in the
spring and carried out by a committee including faculty, staff,
student and alumni representatives.
"Toni-Marie Montgomery combines impressive achievement
as a musician with exceptional administrative vision and experience," Dumas
said. "Having led both a school of music and a school of
fine arts, she is especially well equipped to ensure that Northwestern's
School of Music remains both a first-rate center for the training
of musicians and scholars of music, as well as an energetic collaborator
with other areas of the University."
Montgomery said, "I am extremely proud and honored to have
been selected as dean of Northwestern's premier School of Music.
I look forward to working with the School's outstanding faculty,
students and staff in achieving the goal of recognition as the
leading musical institution of the 21st century."
Montgomery holds doctor of musical arts and master of music
degrees in piano chamber music and accompanying from the University
of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She graduated magna cum laude with
a bachelor of music degree in piano performance from the Philadelphia
College of Performing Arts. She is originally from Philadelphia.
She also has studied at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau,
France; the Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education at
Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pa.; and the Harvard Management
Development Program at Harvard University.
In 2000, Montgomery became dean of the University of Kansas
School of Fine Arts, a school with 100 full-time faculty members
and more than 1,600 students, offering more than 40 undergraduate
and graduate degree programs within the departments of art, design,
and music and dance. She also oversees the university's main
performing arts venue, the Lied Center of Kansas.
Previously she had served as director of the School of Music
at Arizona State University, where she led a faculty of 65 offering
degrees through the doctoral level to 750 students. Montgomery
also held the positions of assistant and associate dean of the
College of Fine Arts at Arizona State.
She has also served as the assistant dean for academic programs
of the School of Fine Arts at the University of Connecticut at
Storrs, and the artistic director and assistant director of the
School of Music at Western Michigan University. While there,
she coordinated the Michigan Youth Arts Festival.
Throughout her administrative career, Montgomery has continued
her musical performances, most recently on a concert tour this
fall in Lithuania, Latvia and Poland. She has performed throughout
the U.S. as well as in Europe and Latin America. She was a founding
member in 1988 of the Black Music Repertory Ensemble of Chicago's
Columbia College, a group that specializes in performing works
by black composers and promotes appreciation for the black musical
heritage. Montgomery's performances with the ensemble included
appearances at New York City's Lincoln Center and Chicago's Orchestra
Hall.
She has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the
International Council of Fine Arts Deans, the Nominating Committee
of the National Association of Schools of Music, and the Board
of Directors of the Phoenix Symphony. She has also served on
review panels for the Nevada State Council for the Arts, the
Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for
the Arts.
Dumas said, "We are deeply grateful to Bernie Dobroski
for his devoted service as dean of the School of Music. The School
has grown in strength under Bernie's leadership, and we look
forward to his continued role as both a faculty colleague and
an advocate for the arts at Northwestern."
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