Lee Hyla

Venerated modern composer and pianist Lee Hyla was the focus of many awards, grants, and commissions for several decades. Hyla was born in Niagara Falls, New York and raised in Greencastle, Indiana. He left Indiana for New York to study composition at SUNY Stony Brook with David Lewin, and then went on to Boston to continue his studies with Malcolm Peyton at the New England Conservatory. By the late '90s, Hyla worked at the NEC as co-chairman of the composition department. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA fellowships, the Stoeger Prize, the Rome Prize, ...