Timothy Scheie Professor of French Fulbright Advisor Academic Leave Fall 2025 DEPARTMENTHumanitiesCONTACT INFOEmail Professor Scheie585-274-1612BIOGRAPHY Timothy Scheie has been a faculty member in the Humanities Department at the Eastman School of Music since 1994, serving as department chair from 2005-2011, and again in 2021. He researches performance and identity in French and American theater, and…
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Charlotte Marcy Instructor of French DEPARTMENTSHumanitiesCONTACT INFOEmail Professor MarcyBIOGRAPHY Charlotte Marcy has a master’s degree in marketing and business from ESC Lille, France, and a Marketing Certificate from North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Charlotte moved to the United States with her family about twenty years ago, after a successful career in the fashion industry in…
Kerala Johnson Snyder Affiliate Faculty of Organ, Sacred Music, & Historical Keyboards Professor Emerita of Musicology BIOGRAPHY Kerala J. Snyder is Professor Emerita of Musicology and Affiliate Faculty of Organ, Sacred Music, & Historical Keyboards at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. She has also taught at Yale University and the Hartt School…
Joseph Rackers Professor of Piano DEPARTMENTPianoCONTACT INFOEmail Professor RackersBIOGRAPHY “An expert artist…enormous power and intelligent, instinctive interpretation” Spoleto Today “The results are consistently compelling…as if Rackers response were primarily to his relationship with the composer as some sort of kindred spirit” Gramophone “Unflappable virtuosity…highly expressive” American Record Guide “Simply dazzling” The State Hailed as an…
Rebecca Penneys Professor Emerita of Piano BIOGRAPHY Steinway Artist Rebecca Penneys is a recitalist, chamber musician, orchestral soloist, educator, and adjudicator. For six decades she has been hailed as a pianist of prodigious talent. Rebecca has played throughout the USA, East Asia, Australia, New Zealand, South America, Western and Eastern Europe, Middle East,…
Vincent Lenti Professor Emeritus of Piano Eastman School Historian DEPARTMENTSPianoCONTACT INFOEmail Professor Lenti585-737-3717BIOGRAPHY BM, MA, Eastman; additional studies, Teachers College, Columbia University. Various professional memberships including 15-year term as treasurer of New York State Music Teachers Association. Recipient, NYSMTA 25th Anniversary Award for Outstanding Service (1986), NYSMTA Citation (1992), Jack L. Frank Award (1998) for…
Jean M. Barr Professor Emerita of Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music BIOGRAPHY Jean Barr is Professor Emerita of Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music at the Eastman School of Music, where she founded the collaborative piano degree programs in 1988. The first person in the United States to earn a doctoral degree in Accompanying, she studied…