The Hartt School has announced its first two Mary Primrose Fuller professorships: Edward Bolkovac joins the faculty as the Primrose Fuller Professor of Choral Music, and Christopher Zimmerman is the new Primrose Fuller Professor of Orchestral Music and the first full-time conductor of the Hartt Symphony Orchestra since 1997.

Edward Bolkovac looks forward to creating greater interest and excitement in choral singing and to "helping Hartt students develop a greater love and appreciation for the spiritual power of music as well as the craft of creating beautiful music."	Christopher Zimmerman hopes that his contacts in the music world will benefit Hartt --prominent professionals who would conduct master classes that would "infuse the school with an exciting diversity of musical experiences."

Bolkovac earned a degree in music education at Duquesne University in Pennsylvania in 1975 and a diploma in choral conducting at the Kodály Institute in Kecskemèt, Hungary, in 1976. He received a master of music in choral conducting from the State University of New York in 1980 and completed his doctorate in choral conducting at Stanford University in 1993.

Bolkovac has been a senior lecturer in music and the director of choral activities at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, where he taught choral conducting and methodology. He was founder and director of the Brisbane Early Music Festival from 1995 to 1999. While in Australia, Bolkovac conducted and received rave reviews for George Frideric Handel's Israel in Egypt, Alexander's Feast, and Judas Maccabeus.

Bolkovac was a guest lecturer at The Hartt School summer terms in 1979, 1980, and 1984, teaching choral conducting.

Christopher Zimmerman received a B.A. degree in music from Yale University and a master's degree from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Gustav Meier. He continued his studies with Seiji Ozawa and Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood and at the Pierre Monteux School in Maine. Later he served as apprentice to Andrew Davis with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and spent a year in Prague as assistant conductor to Vaclav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 1985, Zimmerman made his professional debut with the Royal Philharmonic, followed by engagements with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. He has conducted the Prague Symphony and Slovak Philharmonic.

He became music director of the concert orchestra of the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music in 1993 and made his United States operatic debut with Susannah by Carlisle Floyd. He has twice conducted for the National Opera Association's first-prize winners.

The Hartt School received the Mary Primrose Fuller bequest of $15 million upon her death in 1997. Mrs. Fuller and her husband, Alfred Carl Fuller, longtime benefactors of the University, had been involved with The Hartt School since the 1930s.