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FOR RELEASE: September 5, 2007

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School of Music Announces
New Faculty Appointments

EVANSTON, Ill. --- Dean Toni-Marie Montgomery has announced several faculty appointments, each beginning September 2007.  Lee Hyla has been appointed the Harry and Ruth Wyatt Professor of Theory and Composition, the position held previously by Augusta Read Thomas, and Hans Thomalla will serveas assistant professor of composition.   Lecturers include ethnomusicologist Andrew Eisenberg, musicologist Jennifer Jenkins, double bassist Peter Lloyd, and bassoonist Christopher Millard.

Ethnomusicologist Andrew Eisenberg received a MPhil from Columbia University and is currently a doctoral candidate there. Specializing in the musics of Africa, he is the recipient of three Fulbright Hays Fellowships (2002, 2003, 2004-05), a Social Science Research Council Fellowship (2005), and was a Teaching Fellow at Columbia University. He is the former reviews editor for Current Musicology and has published articles in the New Encyclopedia of Africa and the Britannica Book of the Year as well as reviews in World of Music, Current Musicology, Journal of Anthropological Research, Yearbook for Traditional Music.  He has also presented papers at meetings of the American Anthropological Association, the African Studies Association, and the Society for Ethnomusicology.  Eisenberg is an accomplished jazz percussionist, performing with ensembles throughout New York City as well as with Zein L'Abdin and Party in Mombasa, Kenya.

Composer Lee Hyla was formerly chair of the composition department of New England Conservatory.  He has written for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Kronos Quartet, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Speculum Musicae, and has received 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. He has served as resident composer of the American Academy in Rome and was a composition fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cxassis France. Hyla is published exclusively by Carl Fisher and recorded by Nonesuch, New World, Avant, Tzadik and CRI.

Musicologist Jennifer Jenkins received a PhD from Northwestern University. Her research interests include history of opera, film music, issues of audience receptivity to modern music and media. She is the recipient of a Northwestern University Alumnae Association  and Dissertation Year Fellowships. Her articles have appeared in American Music and she has presented papers at the Midwest Modern Library Association Conference, the International Conference on Nineteenth Century Music, the College Music Society International Conference, the Royal Musical Association Conference, and the American Culture Association-Popular Culture Association Joint Conference. She has also served as artist-in-residence for Chicago’s Columbia College.

Bassist Peter Lloyd earned an undergraduate degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and immediately following graduation joined the Philadelphia Orchestra.  He remained there for more than eight seasons before accepting the position of principal bass of the Minnesota Orchestra, an appointment he held from 1986 to 2007.  Also an active chamber musician, Lloyd has performed with members of the Budapest, Guarneri, Emerson, Juilliard and Orion string quartets, and has been a regular participant at the Marlboro School of Music, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, BargeMusic, and the Boston Chamber Music Society, among others. Over the past three decades he has participated in dozens of recordings with RCA, EMI, Sony, Telarc, Virgin Classical, BIS, and Reference Recordings. Lloyd maintains an active teaching schedule and has been a regular visitor at virtually all of the leading music schools in the United States and serves as a coach for the New York String Orchestra and a regular visiting teacher for the New World Symphony.

Bassoonist Christopher Millard comes to Northwestern from the National Arts Centre Orchestra where he has served as principal bassoon since 2004.  Prior to that position, he was principal bassoonist of both the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the CBC Radio Orchestra for 28 years.  A favored guest artist, Millard has also appeared at festivals throughout Canada as well as with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Marlboro Festival, and the Grand Teton Music Festival.  Other chamber music activity includes performances as a member of the Caliban Bassoon Quartet.  Millard can been heard on several recordings for the Summit and CBC labels, including a 2004 Juno award winner where he is featured in the Hetu Bassoon Concerto.  Millard is also active as a musical instrument manufacturer and technician.  He is a partner with Backun Musical Services, Vancouver-based company that specializes in high-end woodwind repairs and is developing its own line of clarinets.

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