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Kim Laskowski Visiting Professor of Bassoon For 2025-2026 Academic Year DEPARTMENTWoodwinds, Brass & PercussionCONTACT INFOEmail Professor LaskowskiBIOGRAPHY Born in Brooklyn, Kim Laskowski attended the High School of Music and Art and The Juilliard School, where she studied with Harold Goltzer, former Associate Principal Bassoon of the New York Philharmonic. While at Juilliard she won the…
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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…
Linda Boianova Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano DEPARTMENTPiano AccompanyingCONTACT INFOEmail Ms. BoianovaBIOGRAPHY Bulgarian-American musician Linda Boianova is equally at home as a concert pianist, singer, vocal and chamber music coach, opera conductor and concert and jazz band director and arranger. Special interests include Russian romance, music history of the Arabs, Baroque performance using primary sources,…
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…