Nora Lewis is Assistant Professor of Music at Kansas State University, where she teaches oboe and music history. 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, Dr. Lewis 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.
Dr. Lewis has performed with 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 recorded Celebrating 250 Years with Mozart, Shmuel Ashkenasi, violin for DMD Classics. Dr. Lewis has been a member of the new music ensemble “dal niente,” and she has held positions in the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra and Plymouth Philharmonic.
Previously, Dr. Lewis taught at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. Prior to that appointment, she was an editor for The Instrumentalist magazine. During the summers, she enjoys teaching at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan.
Dr. Lewis performed and presented a lecture at the 2008 International Double Reed Society conference about oboist Ronald Roseman’s legacy of compositions. She has contributed articles to The Instrumentalist magazine, the Journal for Music in Education, and Piano Explorer. Dr. Lewis was a clinician at the 2008 State Music Conference in Tennessee, performed at the Michigan Music Conference for educators, and was recently honored by the Delta Pi chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota with a distinguished membership as a National Arts Associate.
