The Artist-in-Residence program at the Institute for Advanced Study was established in 1994 to create a musical presence within the Institute community, to have in residence a person whose work could be experienced and appreciated by scholars from all disciplines.

Our colleague – Composer, clarinetist, and conductor Derek Bermel – was named Artist-in-Residence at the Instute beginning July 1, 2009.

About the Institute for Advanced Study

The Institute for Advanced Study is one of the world’s leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. The Institute exists to encourage and support fundamental research in the sciences and humanities – the original, often speculative, thinking that produces advances in knowledge that change the way we understand the world. Work at the Institute takes place in four Schools: Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Social Science. It provides for the mentoring of scholars by a permanent Faculty of 29, and it offers all who work there the freedom to undertake research that will make significant contributions in any of the broad range of fields in the sciences and humanities studied at the Institute.

The Institute, founded in 1930, is a private, independent academic institution located in Princeton, New Jersey. Its more than 5,000 former Members hold positions of intellectual and scientific leadership throughout the academic world. Some 22 Nobel Laureates and 34 out of 48 Fields Medalists, as well as many winners of the Wolf or MacArthur prizes, have been affiliated with the Institute.