Our faculty is comprised of 50 instructors and approximately 65 interns. Community Music School instructors are professional artist-educators who are Western New York’s most sought after teachers and performers. Community Music School interns are Eastman School of Music students or recent graduates and are among the best and brightest young performers in the world.
In addition to our instructors and interns, the following members of the Eastman School of Music collegiate faculty offer lessons through the Community Music School and set their own fees:
Jeff Campbell, bass
Katherine Ciesinski, voice
Elinor Freer, piano
Mark Kellogg, trombone
Mikhail Kopelman, violin
Oleh Krysa, violin
Chien-Kwan Lin, saxophone
Melissa Matson, viola*
Rich Thompson, drums
Phillip Ying, viola
Preschool and Elementary School
Donna Brink Fox ** – Chair
Adam Foley- Coordinator, Theory in Motion
Patricia Gingras – Coordinator, Early Childhood
Teachers
Rosa Abrahams
Stacey Chou
Beth Fox
Molly Goldman
Liz Hanan
Jason Holmes
Alina Jeon
Casey MacFarlane
Brandon Martell
Abigail McHugh
Alexander Pena
Alexander Reeder
Will Rich
Ashlea Strouse
Emeric Viani
New Horizons Program
Ensemble Conductors
Priscilla Brown, beginning band, Big Band, Chair
Bruce Burritt, intermediate & advanced bands, Brasso Profundo
Juli Elliot, chorus
Matthew Evans, saxophone ensemble
Ken Scott, Vintage Jazz
Karine Stone, Advanced Strings / Orchestra
Alan Woy, intermediate & advanced band, clarinet choir
Anyango (Agah) Yarbo-Davenport, violin, beginning orchestra
Sectional Teachers
Priscilla Brown, oboe & bassoon
Jacqueline Cordova-Arrington, flute
Colin Deay, percussion
Matthew Evans, saxophone
Curtis Swike, low brass
Nikola Tomic, trumpet
Tiffany Valvo, clarinet
Margaret Womack, cello
Music Theory
Margaret Henry – Chair, theory, composition
Instructors
Howard Spindler, theory
Glenn West, composition **
Rachel Lauber, conducting
Lynnann Wieringa, theory
Interns
Music Technology
Interns
Christopher Chandler, electronic music, film scoring
Music History and World Music
Instructors
Mitzie Collins, history, hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer
Paul Hofmann, jazz history
Ellen Koskoff, Gamelan Ensemble**
Rohan Krishnamurthy, Indian drumming**
Glenn West, Mbira Ensemble**
Jazz Studies
Doug Stone, Chair, saxophone, Saxology
Instructors
Dina Alexander, Junior Jazz Ensemble
Freddy Colon, conga, timbales, bongos, Latin jazz
Evan Dobbins, trombone
Paul Hofmann – piano, composition, history
Mike Kaupa, trumpet**
Howard Potter, jazz mallets; Eastman Youth Jazz Orchestra**
Bob Sneider - guitar**
Dawn Thomson, voice
Bill Tiberio, Music Educators Jazz Ensemble **
Interns
Reuben Allen, piano
Ben Bishop, guitar
Gabe Condon, guitar
Michael Conrad, piano & trombone
David Detweiler, saxophone
Nikola Tomic, trumpet
Fumi Tomita, double bass
Kevin Urvalek, drum set
Piano, Keyboard, and Organ
Instructors
Patricia Hanson
Tamari Gurevich Hill
Stephen Kennedy, organ
Alla Kuznetsov
Irina Lupines
Marylynn Miller
Nobuko Moriwaki
Matthew Robey
Howard Spindler
Interns
Joseph Irrera**
Olga Krayterman
John Marcin
Sarah Rhee-Tirré
Tarin Supprakorn
Strings, Harp, and Guitar
Petar Kodzas – Co-Chair, guitar
Jeremy Zhu, Co-Chair, violin
Instructors
Andrew Barnhart, cello*
Rebeca Boyd, violin
Mitzie Collins, hammered dulcimer
Nan Gullo, harp
Christopher Haritatos, cello*
Kathleen Murphy Kemp, cello* **
Gaelen McCormick, bass*
Janet Milnes, violin*
Alexander Peña, viola, Piccolo Strings
Elizabeth Seka, viola*
Lara Sipols, violin*
Karine Stone, Youth Chamber Soloists, Youth Chamber Orchestra
Linda Taggart, hammered dulcimer
Keiko Ying, cello
Interns
Mark Appling, guitar
Wan-Ling Chuang, double bass
Josinaldo Costa, guitar
John Irrera, violin
Timothy Lee, violin
Gregory Perrin, violin
Ran Seo, violin
Sungmin Shin, guitar
Alexander Trygstad, viola
Margaret Womack, cello
Anyango (Agah) Yarbo-Davenport, violin, spring semester
Voice
Patricia Alexander - Chair
Instructors
Carrol Frangipane
Jane Gunter McCoy
Jason Holmes, Young Children’s Chorus
Cecile Saine
Derrick Smith
Karie Schroer Templeton, Children’s Chorus and Chamber Singers
William Weinert, Eastman-Rochester Chorus**
Interns
Kendra Wieneke
Matthew Valverde
Woodwinds, Brass, and Percussion
Ruth Cahn – Chair, percussion**
Instructors
Lisa Albrecht, trombone*
Jan Angus, flute*
Charles Bailey, bassoon*
Karen Bailey, clarinet
Kristin Bayer, saxophone
Lauren Becker, horn
Andrew Brown, clarinet*
Freddy Colon, conga, timbales, bongos
Byron Johns, horn*
Sophia Gibbs Kim, flute
Wesley Nance, trumpet*
Alexandra Shatalov, oboe
Herb Smith, trumpet*
W. Craig Sutherland, tuba*
Alan Woy, clarinet
Interns
Jacqueline Cordova-Arrington, flute
Matthew Evans, saxophone
Natalie Fuller, trumpet
Emlyn Johnson, flute
Curtis Swike, trombone
Tiffany Valvo, clarinet
* Member, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
** ECMS instructors who teach part-time for the college
Last updated: February 26, 2013
