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faculty appointments The music of David Lang, professor of composition (adjunct), has been performed by major musical, dance, and theatrical organizations throughout the world, including the Santa Fe Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, the Kronos Quartet, The Nederlands Dans Theater, and the Royal Ballet to name a few, and has been performed in the most renowned concert halls and festivals in the United States and Europe. Lang is well known as co-founder and co-artistic director of New York’s legendary music festival, Bang on a Can. In 2008, Lang was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for The Little Match Girl Passion, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for Paul Hillier’s vocal ensemble, Theater of Voices. He has also has been honored with the Rome Prize, the BMW Music-Theater Prize (Munich), a Kennedy Center/Friedheim Award, the Revson Fellowship with the New York Philharmonic, a Bessie Award, a Village Voice OBIE Award, and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work is recorded on the Sony Classical, Teldec, BMG, Point, Chandos, Argo/Decca, Caprice, Koch, Albany, CRI and Cantaloupe labels. Born in Los Angeles in 1957, David Lang holds degrees from Stanford University and the University of Iowa, and received the dma from the Yale School of Music in 1989. He has studied with Jacob Druckman, Hans Werner Henze, and Martin Bresnick. His music is published by Red Poppy (ascap) and is distributed worldwide by G. Schirmer, Inc. Christopher Theofanidis, associate professor of composition (adjunct), has had performances by many leading orchestras from around the world, including the National Symphony, the London Symphony, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Moscow Soloists, the Atlanta and Houston Symphonies, the California Symphony (for which he was composer-in-residence from 1994 to 1996), the Oregon Symphony, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, among others. He served as Composer of the Year for the Pittsburgh Symphony for their 2005-2006 Season. Mr. Theofanidis holds degrees from Yale, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Houston, and has been the recipient of the Masterprize, the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Barlow Prize, six ascap Gould Prizes, a Fulbright Fellowship to France, a Tanglewood
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Fellowship, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Charles Ives Fellowship. Mr. Theofanidis’s recent projects include an opera for the Houston Grand Opera, a ballet for the American Ballet Theatre, and a work for the Atlanta Symphony and Chorus based on the poetry of Rumi. He has served as a delegate to the US-Japan Foundation’s Leadership Program. He has been on the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the Juilliard School in New York City. Mezzo-soprano Janna Baty ’93mm has been appointed assistant professor (adjunct) of voice. Recent engagements include appearances with Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Daejeon Philharmonic, Hamburgische Staatsoper, L’Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Hartford Symphony, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and Boston Lyric Opera. She has performed at festivals worldwide, including the Aldeburgh and Britten Festivals in England, the Varna Festival in Bulgaria, the Semanas Musicales de Frutillar Festival in Chile, and the Tanglewood, Norfolk, and Coastal Carolina festivals in the U.S. With Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Ms. Baty has recorded the critically lauded Vali: Flute Concert/ Deylaman/Folk Songs (sung in Persian), Lukas Foss’ opera Grifflekin, and the world-premiere recording of Eric Sawyer’s Civil War-era opera Our American Cousin. Robert Holzer has been appointed associate professor (adjunct) of music history. Holzer received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in the music of the Italian Baroque and the Second Viennese School, he has served on the faculties of Rutgers University, Princeton University, and the University of Chicago. He taught in the Yale Department of Music from 1997 and in the School of Music beginning in 2005. His work has been published in Cambridge Opera Journal, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music & Letters, Il saggiatore musicale, Studi musicali, and he is a musical commentator for Radiotelevisione Italiana. Tiffany Kuo, a musicologist and pianist, was appointed assistant professor (adjunct) of hearing. Ms. Kuo is a graduate of Stanford University (ba, music; bs, biological sciences), The Juilliard School