DePauw University School of Music Appoints Dean

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Ayden Adler has been appointed dean of the DePauw University School of Music. She was previously senior vice president and dean of the New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy. Adler will assume leadership of the nation’s sixth-oldest private institution for post-secondary music instruction and the longest-running in Indiana on July 1 when the current dean, Dr. Mark McCoy, formally becomes DePauw’s 20th president. Previously, she served as executive director of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in New York City. Adler also served as director of education and community partnerships for the Philadelphia Orchestra and as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s director for learning development. As an artist, Adler performed as a tenured member of the horn section of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra for ten years and taught horn, natural horn and music history at the Eastman School of Music.