“Composer Robert Sirota, who has directed the Peabody Conservatory for 10 years, has been named president of Manhattan School of Music, succeeding Marta Casals Istomin… Sirota, who has written solo and chamber music works, studied at the Juilliard School, the Oberlin Conservatory and Harvard, where he received his Ph.D. in composition. He has been a member of the composition faculty at the Peabody Institute since 1995, when he became director.”