Robert Spano will join the company of the Dalai Lama and author Salman Rushdie
(AP) -- Emory University has named the director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as a distinguished artist in residence.
Robert Spano will join the Emory faculty for two years starting in 2010. For three weeks during each spring semester, he will lecture, teach and hold seminars on everything from music to science.
Spano joins other prestigious guest faculty members, including Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and author Salman Rushdie.
Spano has won six Grammy Awards with the Atlanta orchestra and was named Musical America's 2008 Conductor of the Year. He has also led the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics and the San Francisco, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago and Philadelphia symphony orchestras.
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