Rex Martin

Professor, Tuba and Euphonium

rexm@northwestern.edu - 847-491-7228
MMus, Northwestern University
Recent Activity

Recitals and master classes throughout North America, Europe, and the Far East. Studio musician heard in 3,000 television and radio commercials. Performer on more than 70 recordings with Chicago and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras. Performances with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Sinfonietta, Symphony II, Ravinia Festival Orchestra, Fulcrum Point, Tower Brass, and such performers as Tony Bennett, Dave Brubeck, Ray Charles, Luciano Pavarotti, Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé, and Sarah Vaughan. Host of 1995 International Tuba-Euphonium Conference. Outstanding Alumni Award, Illinois State University. Studied with Arnold Jacobs, Edward Kleinhammer, and Edward Livingston.

Elliot Mason

Lecturer, Jazz Studies

847-491-7228

Jazz trombone. Member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Studied with Hal Crook, Tony Lada, Phil Wilson, and Barry Mason. Performed with the Count Basie Orchestra, Maynard Ferguson, Mingus Big Band, Maria Schneider Orchestra, Toshiko Akiyoshi Orchestra, George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band, Willie Nelson, Natalie Cole, Randy Brecker, Joe Zawinul, Hiram Bullock, Marcus Roberts, Slide Hampton, Carl Fontana, and The Temptations. Clinician with the Randy Brecker Quintet and for Taylor Trombones. For more information visit his personal web site.

Christopher Alan Mercer

Lecturer, Music Technology

c-mercer@northwestern.edu - 847-467-2334
PhD, University of California, San Diego

Coordinator, Music Technology program. Composer of electroacoustic music, combining lo-tech analog techniques with extensive digital signal processing; specialist in multi-channel audio and spatialization. Composer of acoustic music focusing on extended instrumental techniques, modified conventional instruments, and instruments of the composer's own design and, most recently, combining this approach with real-time electronics and spatialization. Author of articles on musical aesthetics and composition. Residencies at Experimentalstudio SWR in Freiburg, Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, and Sound Traffic Control in San Francisco. Principal teachers were Peter Otto and Roger Reynolds, electronic music and Chaya Czernowin and Chinary Ung, instrumental music..

Christopher Millard

Lecturer, Bassoon

c-millard@northwestern.edu - 847-491-3241
Curtis Institute

Principal bassoon of the National Arts Centre Orchestra since 2004 and for 29 years of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the CBC Radio Orchestra simultaneously. Has appeared at festivals throughout Canada as well as with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Santa Fe Chamber Music, Chamber Music Northwest, the Marlboro Festival, the Grand Teton Music Festival and the World Orchestra for Peace. Long-time faculty member of the National Youth Orchestra, University of British Columbia, the University of Ottawa and the Domaine Forget. Numerous recordings on the Summit and CBC labels, including a 2004 Juno award winner featuring the Hetu Bassoon Concerto. 

Blair Milton

Assistant Professor, Violin

bmilton@northwestern.edu - 847-491-7228
MMus, Indiana University

Member, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1975-present); founding member, Evanston Chamber Ensemble. Soloist with Chicago Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Sir Georg Solti), Chicago String Ensemble, Kingston Symphony, Montreal Chamber Orchestra. Chamber performances with Ravinia Festival, Aspen Festival, and Chicago Symphony Allied Arts Series at Orchestra Hall and with Yo-Yo Ma, Pinchas Zukerman, and Daniel Barenboim. Has given master classes at universities in the United States, Canada, Japan, and Germany. Director, string program, National High School Music Institute, Northwestern University. Originated Northwestern's Winter Chamber Music Festival. Studied with Josef Gingold at Indiana University and with Ivan Galamian

Toni-Marie Montgomery

Bienen School of Music Dean and Professor, Piano

t-montgomery@northwestern.edu - 847-491-7552
DMA, University of Michigan

Dean since July 1, 2003; previously was dean of the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts; director of the School of Music at Arizona State University; assistant dean for academic programs of the School of Fine Arts at the University of Connecticut at Storrs; and artistic director and assistant director of the School of Music at Western Michigan University. Has studied at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France; the Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education at Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; and the Harvard Management Development Program at Harvard University. An accomplished concert pianist who has performed as soloist and as a chamber musician throughout the U.S., Europe and Latin America. In 1988 was founding member of the Black Music Repertory Ensemble of Chicago's Columbia College. Doctoral and masters degrees from Michigan in piano chamber music and accompanying; bachelor of music, magna cum laude, in piano performance from Philadelphia College of Performing Arts.

Michael Mulcahy

Professor, Trombone

m-mulcahy2@northwestern.edu - 847-491-4771
ASCM, New South Wales Conservatorium of Music

Member, Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Former principal trombone, Cologne Radio Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, and Tasmanian Symphony. Principal trombone, Grand Teton Music Festival. Member, Chicago Chamber Musicians and Summit Brass. Former head of brass, Canberra School of Music at Australian National University. Winner, international music competitions in Munich, Vercelli, and Markneukirchen. Accomplished conductor specializing in contemporary music. Music director, National Music Camp of Australia. Active as soloist, teacher, lecturer, and clinician in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.