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Nora Lewis
Assistant
Professor of Music
Double Reeds (oboe/bassoon)
 Nora
Lewis
is Assistant Professor of Music
at Austin Peay State University and
teaches applied double reeds, music history, woodwind methods,
and directs the double reed ensemble. She received her Doctor
of Music degree from Northwestern University and her Master of
Music degree from Yale University. At Lawrence University in
Appleton, Wisconsin, she earned a Bachelor of Music degree in
performance and a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy. Her
principal oboe teachers include Richard Killmer, Ronald Roseman,
Michael Henoch, and Howard Niblock. She has studied English
horn with Grover Schiltz and bassoon with Robert Barris.
Dr.
Lewis has performed with such ensembles as the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Illinois
Symphony Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera, New Hampshire Symphony,
and was an Artist in Residence at the Banff Centre. With
Camerata Chicago, she performed on “Live from Studio B” at WFMT
in Chicago and can be heard on the DMD Classics label. She has
been a member of the new music ensemble dal niente, and
she has held orchestral positions in the Elmhurst Symphony
Orchestra and Plymouth Philharmonic. As a chamber musician, Dr.
Lewis received top prizes at the 1997 Carmel and 1998 Neale-Silva chamber
music competitions. She has a particular interest in performing
chamber music composed by the late oboist Ronald Roseman, which
was the topic of her dissertation.
During
the summers, Dr. Lewis is on the faculty of Blue Lake Fine Arts
Camp in Twin Lake, Michigan. She has served as Assistant to the
Dean of Faculty at New England Conservatory, was a faculty
mentor for the New Hampshire Symphony’s outreach program, and
worked with the executive director of Chicago Arts Partnerships
in Education to help develop and sustain university partnerships
with public school communities. Dr. Lewis has served as an
editor for The Instrumentalist magazine, where she
continues to contribute CD reviews and double reed articles.
Email: LewisN@apsu.edu
Phone: (931)221-6169
Music/Mass Communication Building, Room 214 |
