Keeril Makan, Assistant Professor of Music. B.M. in composition, B.A. in religion from Oberlin, and Ph.D. in music from the University of California at Berkeley, has received commissions to write music for the Kronos Quartet, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, the Paul Dresher Electroacoustic Band, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, and the Del Sol String Quartet, among others. He has received prizes from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and ASCAP, and commissions from Carnegie Hall, Meet the Composer, Fondation Royaumont, the Gerbode and Hewlett Foundations, and the Fromm Music Foundation. Makan was Assistant Professor of Composition/Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. www.keerilmakan.com