Converse selects Hoffman to lead school of music
Hoffman earned a bachelor of arts with cum laude honors from Yale University and a master of music from the Juilliard School. He has spent the better part of his life educating others about music. Hoffman is known to most Americans through his music commentaries for National Public Radio’s flagship program Morning Edition and for Performance Today, on which he provided weekly commentary for 13 years. He is author of The NPR Classical Music Companion: Terms and Concepts from A to Z, now in its eighth printing from the Houghton Mifflin Company. He is also the founder and artistic director of The American Chamber Players.
