IU School of Music has plenty to sing about

McNair



Kaler

Gwyn Richards, who has been serving as interim dean of the school for the last year, was formally appointed to the position of dean at the June meeting of the Trustees of IU.

Richards said he will be placing the development of an infrastructure as his earliest objective, key components of which are development, admissions and financial aid.

Toward those plans, Richards has appointed Grammy award winner and IU alumna Sylvia McNair executive adviser for outreach at the school. McNair, who has been described as one of the world’s greatest living sopranos, will lend her time and talents to fund-raising and to attracting outstanding faculty. She will begin her three-year appointment to the post July 1.

McNair earned a master’s degree in music in 1983 while studying with Virginia Zeani, IU Distinguished Professor of voice. McNair will continue to live just outside New York City, where she can best continue her performing career.

Violinist Ilya Kaler comes to Bloomington from the Eastman School of Music, where he has been the leading professor of violin since 1997. Concurrently, he has been the concertmaster of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Kaler has been appointed as full professor of violin and will be the first recipient of the Linda and Jack Gill Chair in violin, established last year by the Gill Foundation of Texas.

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