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Academics & Publications

The Eastman School of Music places an emphasis on solid academic work as well as excellence in performance. From special organ-related 590 courses to the intense four-semester Organ Literature course required of all master's degree students, organ students at Eastman gain a solid background in history, construction, performance practice, and technique. Below you will find academic information and samples of student work in addition to Resonance, the biannual department newsletter written by both faculty and students.

• Audition requirements [organ specification as pdf]
• Papers and dissertations [pdf] - forthcoming
• Organ stoplists [pdf] with thanks to Jon Ortloff, Rob Kerner, William Porter, Nicole Marane, and Lee Wright
  • Craighead-Saunders Organ, Christ Church (Episcopal)
  • Van Daalen 1979, rebuilt by Dobson in 2000
    Schmitt Organ Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music
  • Italian Baroque Organ, c. 1770 [brief listing]
    Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
  • E.M. Skinner, Opus 325, 1922 (under restoration)
    Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music
  • Aeolian-Skinner, Opus 953, 1937 (restoration planned)
    Strong Auditorium, University of Rochester
  • Brombaugh, Opus 9
    St. Michael's Church
    Austin Organ Company, Opus 2215, 1956
    Asbury United Methodist Church
  • Hook and Hastings, Opus 1697, 1898
    St. Mary's Church (Catholic)
  • C.B. Fisk, Opus 83, 1983
    Downtown United Presbyterian Church
  • Samuel Bohler, 1869
    Holtkamp Organ Company, 1962
    Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word
• Sweden Study Tour 2003
  • Tour Homepage
  • Audio and Slideshow

Resonance, the biannual department newsletter [pdf]

Resonance Autumn, 2010 Resonance No. 8 Summer 2007 Resonance No. 7 Summer 2006 Resonance No. 6 Fall 2005 Resonance No. 5 Spring 2005 Resonance No. 4 Fall 2004 Resonance No. 3 [high resolution version] Winter 2004 Resonance No. 2 [high resolution version] Summer 2003 Resonance No. 1 Spring 2002

Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI) Festivals

• EROI Festival 2010: Pedaling through Time: New Perspectives on Pedal Technique, November 11 - November 14.
  
  
• EROI Festival 2009: Mendelssohn and the Contrapuntal Tradition (October 29 - November 1)
   
• EROI Festival 2008: Inauguration of the Craighead-Saunders Organ
   
• EROI Festival 2007: New Dimensions in Organ Documentation and Conservation
   
• EROI Festival 2006: Aspects of Organ Building in the Twentieth Century - Featuring the work of Ernest M. Skinner and John Brombaugh
   
• EROI Festival 2005: Inaugural Festival for the Italian Baroque Organ
   
• EROI Festival 2004: A Global Organ Project for the 21st Century / Westfield Center Pedal Clavichord Symposium
   
• Westfield Symposium [pdf]: The Organ and the Pedal Clavichord - a case study in performance and pedagogy
   
• EROI Festival 2003 [pdf]: American Organ Building in the Twentieth Century