Lynn Hileman
Assistant Professor - Bassoon
Lynn Hileman is Assistant Professor of Bassoon and Music Theory, co-director of the WVU Double Reed Ensemble, and a member of the Laureate Wind Quintet. She is dedicated to the reinvigoration of concert music through performance of post-classical contemporary and experimental music, orchestral and chamber music, as well as electronic music and interdisciplinary arts. Dr. Hileman is principal bassoonist of the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra in Binghamton, New York, and has also performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Syracuse and New Haven Symphony Orchestras, New Music New Haven, the June in Buffalo festival, and Eastman Musica Nova, with whom she appeared as a soloist in Sofia Gubaidulina's Concerto for Bassoon and Low Strings and in Charles Wuorinen's Bassoon Variations.
Dr. Hileman holds degrees from the University of Michigan (BM), Yale University (MM), and the Eastman School of Music (DMA), where she was the 2004 winner of the Andrew G. Bogiages Memorial Prize in Bassoon. Her major teachers include Richard Beene, Christopher Millard, Frank Morelli, K. David VanHoesen, and John Hunt. Prior to coming to WVU, Lynn served on the faculties of Hamilton, Hartwick, and Houghton Colleges, Binghamton University, and the Hochstein School of Music and Dance.
She is a co-founder and former president of A\V, an art gallery and performance space in Rochester, New York that specializes in interdisciplinary and multimedia works. Her current work as a curator at A\V aims to blur the distinction between classical and non-classical genres by presenting concerts that feature contemporary concert music alongside experimental noise, folk, or laptop and turntable based music. In 2005, she exhibited a solo show of photography and instrumental installation, fag. deconstructed.
