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Pictured from Right to Left: William Hill, Eric Bradler, Richard VonFoerster, Chris Malloy, Theodor Lichtmann,Conrad Kehn, and Jonathan Leathwood
The Lamont Composition and Theory Department
Chris Malloy, Chair
Susan de Ghize Assistant Professor, Music Theory, PhD TVRH 318 l 303.871.6942
Eric Bradler William Hill
William Hill has been critically acclaimed as a composer, soloist, visual artist, recording artist, and conductor. Currently he is Principal Timpanist with the Colorado Symphony and Grand Teton Music Festival where he also serves as a resident composer. Mr. Hill teaches music composition at the University of Denver 's Lamont School of Music. In addition to the Colorado and Grand Teton appointments Mr. Hill has served as a composer with the Colorado Symphony, Ohio Chamber Orchestra, National Music Festival, Academy in the Wilderness Chamber Orchestra, Cheyenne Symphony, Denver Chamber Orchestra, Colorado Music Festival, Strings in the Mountains Festival, and Denver Public Schools and the Nova Series of Salt Lake City.
Compositions of William Hill have been widely performed, including venues such as Kennedy Center in Washington , D. C., the Hebrew Arts Center in New York , and the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, among others and in all of Denver 's major theaters and concert halls. His chamber compositions have been performed by members of the Chicago , Cincinnati , San Francisco and Colorado Symphonies.
A multi-instrumentalist, William Hill has been featured with numerous orchestras as a soloist on timpani, marimba, vibraphone, drum set, ethnic percussion, and in multiple percussion concertos. He is equally at home in classical, jazz, pop, folk, and world music idioms. Hill's first CD “Rhythms of Innocence” features him on more than 75 percussion instruments, recorders, wood flutes, didjeridoo, and piano. His jazz compositions have been featured in live performance on Colorado Public Television.
As a conductor Mr. Hill has led the Colorado Symphony, Denver Chamber Orchestra, various groups at the Grand Teton Music Festival, and numerous Denver area professional and amateur groups.
Conrad Kehn Email |Web site |Biography | Portfolio
Jonathan Leathwood Instructor,
Guitar, Theory The extraordinary English guitarist, known for his mesmerizing performances, joined Lamont in 1999 to teach guitar chamber music, guitar history and guitar pedagogy, while pursuing an Artist Diploma under Ricardo Iznaola. Upon completing the Diploma program in 2001, he was awarded the first Ricardo Iznaola Scholarship. Mr. Leathwood teaches as well in the theory area (Form and Analysis.)
Theodor Lichtmann Theodor Lichtmann, director of the piano division, received his master of music degree from the University of Texas. He also studied piano at the University of Munich and the Vienna Academy of Music and studied privately with Leonard Shure. Mr. Lichtmann has taught in Zurich, the Brooklyn Conservatory, the University of Texas at Austin, and Wittenberg University. He is highly sought as a soloist and chamber music
Richard von Foerster
Richard von Foerster, cellist, is an active performer in the front range region. He has a wide range of musical interests, and currently performs as a member of the Cheyenne (WY) Symphony, the Central City Opera Orchestra, the Confluence String Quartet, and The Playground, Lamont's Artist - In - Residence new music group. He also performs recitals regularly with his pianist collaborator, Alix Corboy. Past affiliations have included the Colorado Ballet Orchestra, the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, the Baltimore Opera Orchestra, the Contemporary Music Forum (Washington DC), the Toledo (OH) Symphony, and the tango band Extasis Orquesta Atipica. He has also appeared with the Colorado Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, and numerous other orchestras and chamber music series. He arranges popular and classical music for string quartet, and frequently collaborates with local composers. Richard's principal teachers have been Richard Slavich, at the Lamont School of Music, and Grace Konopka, of Royal Oak, Michigan. While a graduate student in cello performance and music theory at Lamont, he was the recipient of the Solo Honors Competition Award, the Chamber Music Competition Award, the Outstanding Student in Composition Award, the Outstanding Graduate Student in Academic Achievement Award, the Frank Toth Memorial Award, and three Recital of Distinction awards. He is now on the music theory faculty at Lamont and he maintains a small private teaching studio. He is also currently pursuing doctoral studies in Musicology at the University of Colorado, specializing in the music of the twentieth century.
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