Kirchner Named Professor

Leon Kirchner, the composer, will become professor of Music on July 1. Kirchner has been professor of music at Mills College since 1954.

Kirchner graduated from the University of California in 1940, and took his M.A. there in 1946. He taught at California until 1954.

Kirchner's Sinfonia and Piano Concerto were first performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

The new professor has received the New York Music Critics Award, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation Award.