Bruce Hall

Senior Lecturer, Voice

bruce@northwestern.edu - 847-491-7545
MMus, University of Michigan

Baritone. International operatic and concert career with appearances at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Opera Theater, and Cologne, Stuttgart, Netherlands, Seattle, Michigan, and Cleveland opera companies. More than 200 appearances on PBS television and National Public Radio. Soloist with Aspen, Meadowbrook, Artpark, and Grant Park Music Festivals as well as Rotterdam Philharmonic, Westdeutsche and Suedwestfunk Radio Orchestras and many American orchestras.

Kurt R. Hansen

Senior Lecturer, Voice

kurtsingsbach@comcast.net - 847-491-7538
MMus, Northwestern University

Tenor. Solo appearances in Europe, South America, Asia, and the United States. Specialist in oratorio, most notably the J. S. Bach Passions. Recitalist and frequent performer in opera roles. Soloist with Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Sir Georg Solti and Claudio Abbado and with Omaha Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and Music of the Baroque. Recorded on Lyra with Music of the Baroque and Colorado Mahlerfest.

Robert A. Harris

Professor, Conducting and Ensembles

robahar@northwestern.edu - 847-491-3498
PhD, Michigan State University

Director, choral organizations. Active as choral conductor, composer, clinician, and adjudicator throughout the United States and abroad. Has served as visiting professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, University of Texas at Austin, and University of South Africa in Pretoria. Former member and cochair, choral panel, National Endowment for the Arts. Recipient, Bienen School of Music Exemplar in Teaching Award and Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award. Compositions for chorus published by Oxford University Press, Boosey and Hawkes, Walton Music, Mark Foster, Alliance Music, and J. S. Paluch.

Robert G. Hasty

Senior Lecturer, Conducting and Ensembles

hasty@northwestern.edu - 847-491-5707
DMus, Northwestern University
Recent Activity

Associate director of orchestras. Conductor, Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia, and Summer Orchestra. Teacher of graduate and undergraduate conducting courses. Teacher, adjudicator, clinician, violinist. Music Director, Merit Symphony Orchestra, Chicago, IL. Conductor, National High School Music Institute Orchestra. Former conductor, La Primavera Orchestra, Irvine Youth Symphony, Metropolis Youth Symphony. Former vice president of string education, Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association. Music researcher investigating critical listening while conducting; presented at the international meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Sciences of Music. Studied conducting with Victor Yampolsky and violin with Alice Schoenfeld.

Robert Heitzinger

Lecturer, Voice

zinger@northwestern.edu - 847-467-3962
DMus, Northwestern University

Baritone. Solo appearances with Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, Omaha Symphony, Des Moines Symphony, Rockford Symphony, Chicago Sinfonietta, Symphonic Pops Orchestra of Chicago, Festival de Musica de Canarias, Chicago Opera Theater, Cincinnati Opera, Light Opera Works, Milwaukee Florentine Opera. Appearances on Broadway, Kennedy Center, and throughout the U.S. and Europe in numerous musicals. Recipient, Mason-Ragland Fellowship in Opera. Active studio singer. Recordings on Amadis and Centaur labels.

Frederick Hemke

Louis and Elsie Snydacker Eckstein Professor of Music, Saxophone

f-hemke@northwestern.edu - 847-491-7228
AMusD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Premier Prix du Saxophone, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, Paris, as student of Marcel Mule. Internationally recognized adjudicator, master teacher, and soloist. Active recitalist and performer with orchestras and wind ensembles worldwide. Recordings with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, Stockholm Philharmonic, Eastman Wind Ensemble, and Contemporary Chamber Players as well as solo albums. Editor of music for saxophone solo and ensembles; author of many articles and educational materials. Consultant to the Selmer Corporation, La Voz Corporation, Southern Music Company. Listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Music, International Who's Who of Music and Musicians, New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Encyclopédie de la Musique Francois Michel, editor). Kappa Kappa Psi -- Distinguished Service to Music Award. His students teach and perform in major teaching and performing positions throughout the world.

John Henes

Lecturer, Alexander Technique

j-henes@northwestern.edu - 847-491-7228
BMus, Indiana University
Recent Activity

Graduate, Chicago Center for the Alexander Technique. Certified by the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique, London. Private teacher of the Alexander technique to members of major American and European orchestras as well as other performing artists from the United States and abroad. Frequently gives Alexander technique lectures and master classes at universities around the country and in Europe. Former member (trumpet), Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, Army Field Band. Recorded Shostakovich Concerto no. 1 for Piano, Trumpet, and Strings with the Chicago Sinfonietta. For more information, visit his personal web site.

Michael Henoch

Associate Professor, Oboe

m-henoch@northwestern.edu - 847-491-7228
MMus, Northwestern University

Assistant principal oboe, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1972-present). Artistic codirector and oboist, Chicago Chamber Musicians. Participant, Marlboro Music Festival, Carmel Bach Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, Peninsula Music Festival. Soloist with conductors Daniel Barenboim, Sir Georg Solti, David Zinman, Alexander Schneider. Artistic collaborations with Pierre Boulez, Christoph Eschenbach, Claude Frank, Garrick Ohlsson, Arlene Auger, Maxim Vengerov. Numerous recordings, recitals, and international tours.

Maud Hickey

Associate Professor, Music Education/Music Technology

mhickey@northwestern.edu - 847-467-4726
PhD, Northwestern University
Recent Activity

Chair, Department of Music Studies. Instrumental music education specialist. Contributor to Music Educators Journal, General Music Today, Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning, and Research Studies in Music Education. Developer of customized music composition software. Editorial chair, Music Educators Journal and editorial board member, Journal for Technology in Music Learning; music education board member, College Music Society. Former music instructor and director of bands at public schools in Indiana and Wisconsin. Member, Music Educators National Conference, College Music Society, Association for Technology in Music Instruction, and American Educational Research Association.

Pamela Hinchman

Associate Professor, Voice

p-hinchman@northwestern.edu - 847-467-1408
BMus, Cleveland Institute of Music; MMus, Curtis Institute of Music

Soprano. Solo appearances at Carnegie Hall and with Hong Kong Philharmonic, the symphony orchestras of Cairo (Egypt), Haifa (Israel), Calgary, Pittsburgh, National, Wichita, Columbus, Harrisburg, Connecticut, Florida Philharmonic, and Kansas City. Appearances with Teatro de la Monnaie (Belgium), Spoleto Festival dei due Mondi (Italy), Cleveland Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Company of Boston, Washington Opera, Kennedy Center, Nashville Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Chicago Opera Theatre, and Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Recitals include Indiana University, University of Michigan, Curtis Institute of Music, Cincinnati Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, Riga Academy of Music in Latvia, Vilnius Academy in Luthuania, and the American Cathedral in Paris’ Georges V Series.  Summer teaching: AIMS Institute in Graz, Austria and Opera CCM in Lucca, Italy Winner, Prix Speciale, International Bel Canto Competition, Belgium. Recipiant, Mu Phi Epsilon Alumni Award. Phi Beta Delta inductee. For more information, visit her personal web site.

Scott Hostetler

Lecturer, Oboe

s-hostetler@northwestern.edu - 847-491-4781
BM, Cleveland Institute of Music

Member, Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Formerly principal oboist and artist-in-residence of the Kalamazoo (MI) Symphony Orchestra. Performed with the Michigan Opera Theatre, the Florida Orchestra, and the Cleveland Orchestra during its 1999 European tour. Principal oboist of the Kokomo Symphony Orchestra. At age 16, was invited to perform the Mozart Quartet for Oboe and Strings with members of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.

Lee Hyla

Harry and Ruth Wyatt Professor of Theory and Composition

MA, SUNY/Stony Brook
l-hyla@northwestern.edu - 847-491-5722
Recent Activity

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. 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. Has served as resident composer of the American Academy in Rome and wasa composition fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cxassis France. Published exclusively by Carl Fisher and recorded by Nonesuch, New World, Avant, Tzadik and CRI.  Previous appointment was as chair of the composition department of New England Conservatory.  For more information, visit www.leehyla.com.