Nora Lewis is Assistant Professor of Music at Austin Peay State University, in Clarksville, Tennessee, where she 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 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. Lewis has performed with such ensembles as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Boston Lyric Opera, and New Hampshire Symphony. With Camerata Chicago, she performed on “Live from Studio B” at WFMT in Chicago and
 
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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, Lewis received top prizes at the Carmel and 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, 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. Lewis has served as an editor for The Instrumentalist magazine, where she continues to contribute CD reviews and double reed articles. lewisn@apsu.edumailto:lewisn@apsu.edushapeimage_2_link_0