One of the Peabody Conservatory's most active faculty members will be moving on to a new appointment in July of this year. Eileen Soskin has been named the new head of the Walnut Hill School, the nation's oldest secondary school for the arts.
Currently, Soskin serves as associate vice provost for the arts for Hopkins and as associate dean for academic affairs at Peabody. She has also been chair of the Music Theory Department, supervised curricular and accreditation reviews, and worked to make the arts more prominent at Homewood.
Soskin received her bachelor's degree in music from the University of California at Berkeley. She then earned her master's at San Francisco State University and a doctorate in musicology from Berkeley.
This school, located in Natick, Mass., is a private boarding/day coeducational school with students from all over the nation and the globe in grades 9 through 12.
On July 1, Soskin will become the 11th person to head the Walnut Hill School. Her inauguration ceremony will take place in the fall.
