Lauren MacDonough Instructor of Arts Leadership DEPARTMENTArts LeadershipCONTACT INFOEmail Ms. MacDonoughBIOGRAPHY Lauren MacDonough currently serves as Director of Marketing for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, a culmination of her education in marketing and her love of the arts. In her role, Lauren handles single ticket marketing campaigns for 34 season concerts and the RPO’s summer concert…
Betsey King Instructor of Arts Leadership DEPARTMENTArts LeadershipCONTACT INFOEmail Dr. KingBIOGRAPHY Betsey King, PhD, MT-BC has been a board-certified music therapist since 1984. She spent sixteen years in full-time clinical practice, working primarily with children and in neurological rehabilitation (as well as with elders, women w/metastatic breast cancer, inmates, and others) before becoming the director…
Chisato Eda Marling Instructor of Arts Leadership DEPARTMENTArts LeadershipCONTACT INFOEmail Dr. MarlingBIOGRAPHY Chisato Eda Marling received a Bachelor of Music in Saxophone Performance with minor in Piano Performance from the Musashino Academia Musicae, Tokyo, Japan, a Master’s Degree in Saxophone Performance from the University of Minnesota and a Doctor of Musical Arts with minor in…
Gwen M. Greene Retired Wealth Manager at J.P. Morgan Class of ’65 BIOGRAPHY Gwen Greene graduated from the University of Rochester with a degree in French literature, assuming she would become a high school teacher. Unfortunately , NYC schools were on strike, so she made the first of many pivots in her life—she became a…
Jesse Freedman Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Musicology DEPARTMENTMusicologyCONTACT INFOEmail Professor FreedmanBIOGRAPHY Jesse Freedman is an ethnomusicologist whose work focuses on the histories and legacies of the Latin American political song movement nueva canción (new song) in the former German Democratic Republic. He received his PhD from the University of California, Riverside as well as…
Alan E. Curle Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Rochester BIOGRAPHY Alan Curle was raised in Memphis TN where he attended Rhodes College (B.S. Biology ’82) and University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences (M.D. ’86). He did his anesthesiology residency at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center San Antonio, TX (chief resident ’89)…
Dawn Thomson Instructor of Vocal Jazz DEPARTMENTJazz Studies & Contemporary MediaCONTACT INFOEmail Ms. ThomsonBIOGRAPHY Dawn Thomson is a jazz guitarist and vocalist born in Hastings Nebraska and grew up in Montreal. She lived in New York City for many years where she studied with renowned guitarists Jim Hall and Emily Remler. She later…
Kate Sheeran Joan and Martin Messinger Dean Director, Howard Hanson Institute for American Music CONTACT INFOEmail Dean Sheeran585-274-1010BIOGRAPHY Kate Sheeran serves as Eastman’s Joan and Martin Messinger Dean, beginning in 2024. She previously served as executive director of Kaufman Music Center. In that position, Sheeran launched several center-wide initiatives, including artists-in-residence, robust…










