Dr. Nora Lewis was appointed Assistant Professor of Music at Kansas State University in the fall of 2008. At K-State, she teaches oboe, undergraduate and graduate courses in music history and literature, and directs the Double Reed Ensemble. She is also oboist in the Konza Winds woodwind quintet, which was recently added to the Kansas Arts Commission’s Arts on Tour roster. Previous positions include Assistant Professor of Music at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee and editor for The Instrumentalist magazine. During the summers, she is on the faculty of Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan.
Highlights of 2009 include a presentation at the 63rd Midwest Clinic, International Band and Orchestra Conference in Chicago, and performances at St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, London and at the 2009 International Double Reed Society (IDRS) Conference in Birmingham, United Kingdom. In the coming months, Dr. Lewis will perform Jennifer Higdon’s Oboe Concerto with the K-State Wind Ensemble at the CBDNA Southwest Regional Conference in New Mexico and will study music history pedagogy as a Big-12 Faculty Fellow at University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Lewis has presented at the Kansas Music Educator’s Association and Tennessee Music Educator’s Association conferences, the 2008 IDRS Conference in Provo, Utah and has given master classes in Bath, United Kingdom, and at Bowling Green State University, Illinois State University, and Toledo School of the Arts.
Dr. Lewis has performed with such ensembles as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Boston Lyric Opera, Illinois Symphony Orchestra, and New Hampshire Symphony and has performed on WFMT’s “Live from Studio B” with Camerata Chicago. She was a member of the Chicago-based new music ensemble dal niente and held orchestral positions in the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra and Plymouth Philharmonic. Lewis received her Doctor of Music degree from Northwestern University and her Master of Music degree from Yale University. At Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, Lewis earned a Bachelor of Music degree in performance and a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy. Her principal teachers include Richard Killmer, Ronald Roseman, Michael Henoch, Grover Schiltz, and Howard Niblock. Dr. Lewis is a member of MENC, College Music Society, International Double Reed Society, American Musicological Society, and Sigma Alpha Iota, as a National Arts Associate.
