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Arroyo
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Three Indiana University Bloomington faculty have joined a distinguished list of national colleagues by selection to one of the most prestigious academic organizations in the world. Two IU School of Music faculty members, Martina Arroyo, Distinguished Professor of voice, and Menahem Pressler, the Dean Charles H. Webb Chair in music, join Rudolf Raff, professor of biology and director of the Indiana Molecular Biology Institute, in being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They bring to 13 the total number of Bloomington faculty selected over the years for the national organization that recognizes excellence in the arts and sciences. Pressler, an IU faculty member since 1955, is a Distinguished Professor of music and is internationally recognized as a pianist and a co-founder and member of the renowned Beaux Arts Trio. He is a soloist and chamber musician, and he has performed with many of the world's leading orchestras and string quartets. Pressler has received numerous awards, including England's Record of the Year Award, four Grammy nominations, Musical America's 1997 Ensemble of the Year award with the Beaux Arts Trio and the German Recording Award. He was a winner of the Debussy Competition in San Francisco and has served as a juror for the Van Cliburn Competition and Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Competition. Arroyo, who joined the IU music faculty in 1993, is an internationally recognized opera singer and concert artist. She opened the season at the Metropolitan Opera on three occasions and has performed at the Paris Opera, Covent Garden in London, Buenos Aires' Teatro Colon, Milan's La Scala, Hamburg State Opera and Vienna State Opera. The IU faculty member has sung with leading orchestras in Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Rome and Berlin. She has been honored by the American Council for the Arts, served as a member of the National Endowment of the Arts and is an honorary trustee of Carnegie Hall. Arroyo has more than 50 recordings of major operas and orchestral performances. Raff is a pioneer in creating a new field called evolutionary developmental biology. This involves combining changes in evolution, from one species to another over many generations, with changes in development, from embryo to adult in a single generation, to understand how new animal forms evolve. His work involves three kinds of projects: using genes to understand
relationships among different kinds of organisms, determining how the
evolutionary transformation in body design happens and determining the
mechanisms by which evolutionary changes in embryos occur. George Washington was among the founders. The organization annually honors leading intellectuals from both the United States and abroad. It has a membership of 3,500 fellows and 600 foreign honorary members. The three faculty members will be formally inducted in October ceremonies at the organization's headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Web site:
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