Dr. Lynn Hileman is Assistant Professor of Bassoon and Music Theory at West Virginia University, co-director of the WVU Double Reed Ensemble, and a member of the Laureate Wind Quintet.  She is also principal bassoonist of the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra and makes up one half of the contemporary bassoon duo Tuple.  She has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Syracuse and New Haven Symphony Orchestras, New Music New Haven, the June in Buffalo Festival Orchestra, and at the 2007 and 2008 International Double Reed Society conferences.

Dr. Hileman is dedicated to reinvigorating concert music through the performance of post-classical contemporary and experimental music, orchestral and chamber music, as well as electronic music and interdisciplinary arts.  As soloist she is in demand throughout the United States as a recitalist specializing in contemporary music, most recently appearing at the Washington State University Festival of Contemporary Art Music and the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival.  She also co-founded and is former president of A\V, a gallery and performance space in Rochester, New York specializing in multimedia and experimental works.
 
Dr. Hileman holds degrees from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (BM), Yale University (MM), and the Eastman School of Music (DMA), where she was awarded the Andrew G. Bogiages Memorial Prize in Bassoon in 2004.  Her teachers include John Hunt, K. David Van Hoesen, Frank Morelli, Christopher Millard, and Richard Beene.  Before coming to WVU, Dr. Hileman served on the faculties of Hamilton, Hartwick, and Houghton Colleges, Binghamton University, and the Hochstein School of Music and Dance.  Dr. Hileman spends her summers practicing, traveling, baking vegan pastries, and serving on the faculty of the Hartwick Summer Music Festival in Oneonta, New York.

Special thanks to Mark Carpenter for the photographs on this page.