Professor
Acting Deputy Provost
Ph.D, University of North Texas
Office:
E-mail: hakafer@niu.edu
Harold Kafer, former dean of NIU's College of Visual and Performing Arts and currently Acting Deputy Provost of the University, received his B.M. in piano performance from the Peabody Conservatory, his M.M. in piano performance from Arizona State University, and his Ph.D. in college teaching from the University of North Texas. He has appeared in concert more than 200 times in the U.S. and Germany as a solo, accompanying and chamber music pianist and as a conductor. Publications include musical compositions and scholarly articles, and he has presented papers for the National Association of Schools of Music and the International Council of Fine Arts Deans. For 10 years he was a member of the NASM Evaluators pool and chaired several visitation teams.