The ECMS Faculty
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
Oleh krysa, violin
Chien-Kwan Lin, classical 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
Sasami Ashworth
Beth Fox
Liz Hanan
Xing Jin
Abigail McHugh
Alexander Reeder
Josh Rosenberg
New Horizons Program
Ensemble Conductors
Priscilla Brown, beginning band, Chair
Bruce Burritt, intermediate & advanced bands, Brasso Profundo
Juli Elliot, chorus
Matthew Evans, saxophone ensemble
Ken Scott, dance band
Alan Woy, intermediate & advanced band, clarinet choir
Anyango (Agah) Yarbo-Davenport, violin, beginning orchestra
Sectional Teachers
Priscilla Brown, oboe & bassoon
Matthew Evans, saxophone
Norman Gonzales, flute
Janneke Hoogland, cello
Tiffany Lopez, clarinet
Carson Moody, percussion
Nikola Tomic, trumpet
Music Theory
Margaret Henry - Chair, theory, composition
Instructors
Howard Spindler, theory
Glenn West, composition **
Rachel Lauber, conducting
Interns
Carl Heuckendorf
Lynnann Wieringa
Music Technology
Interns
Geoffrey Pope, electronic music, film scoring
Lena Nietfeld, electronic music
Music History and World Music
Insturctors
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
Paul Hofmann - Chair, piano, composition, history
Instructors
Freddy Colon, conga, timbales, bongos, Latin jazz
Evan Dobbins, trombone
Mike Kaupa, trumpet**
Howard Potter, jazz mallets; Eastman Youth Jazz Orchestra**Bob Sneider - guitar**
Doug Stone, saxophone, Saxology, Latin jazz
Bill Tiberio, Music Educators Jazz Ensemble **
Interns
Ben Bishop, guitar
Gabe Condon, guitar
Colin Gordon, saxophone
Jeff McLeod, piano
Chris Potter, drum set
Christopher Teal, drum set
Ben Thomas, bass
Nikola Tomic, trumpet
Piano, Keyboard, and Organ
Patricia Hanson - Chair
Instructors
Stephen Kennedy, organ
Alla Kuznetsov
Irina Lupines
Marylynn Miller
Nobuko Moriwaki
Matthew Robey
Howard Spindler
Harriet Zimmerman**
Interns
Olga Krayterman
Josh Massicot
Strings, Harp, and Guitar
Petar Kodzas - Co-Chair, guitar
Jeremy Zhu, Co-Chair, violin
Instructors
Rebeca Boyd, violin
Mitzie Collins, hammered dulcimer
Diego Garcia, celloKathleen Murphy Kemp, cello* **
Michael Larco, viola**
Gaelen McCormick, bass*
Janet Milnes, violin*
Nan Gullo Richmond, harp
Elizabeth Seka, viola*
Karine Stone, ensembles*
Keiko Ying, cello
Interns
Jonathan Fitzgerald, guitar
Elise Hughey, cello
John Irrera, violin
Timothy Lee, violin
Gregory Perrin, violin
Eric Polenik, bass*
Sungmin Shin, guitar
Alexander Trygstad, viola
Christopher Wilke, lute
Anyango (Agah) Yarbo-Davenport, violin
Voice
Patricia Alexander - Chair
Instructors
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
Woodwinds, Brass, and Percussion
Ruth Cahn - Chair, percussion**
Instructors
Jan Angus, flute*
Charles Bailey, bassoon*Karen Bailey, clarinet
Kristin Bayer, saxophone
Lauren Becker, horn
Andrew Brown, clarinet*
Freddy Colon, conga, timbales, bongos
Sophia Gibbs Kim, flute
Wesley Nance, trumpet*Herb Smith, trumpet*
W. Craig Sutherland, tuba*
Patrick Walle, horn
Alan Woy, clarinet
Interns
Jacqueline Arrington, flute
Andrew Bobka, trombone
Matthew Evans, saxophone
Natalie Fuller, trumpet
Emlyn Johnson, flute
Tiffany Lopez, clarinet
Alexandra Shatalov, oboe
Matthew Swihart, trombone
Curtis Swike, trombone
* Member, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
** ECMS instructors who teach part-time for the college
Last updated: October 17, 2011