Current Musicology StudentsLauren GangerSTUDENT PROFILE Lauren is a PhD candidate in musicology. Her dissertation, “The Harmony of the Separate Spheres: British Nationalism and Gender Formation in Nineteenth-Century Domestic Music,” comprises a series of case studies of British figures who participated in distinctly British styles of composition, music criticism, and amateur and professional performance in the…
Current Musicology StudentsBethany BrinsonSTUDENT PROFILE Bethany Brinson is a Ph.D. candidate and instructor in musicology at the Eastman School of Music. Her research interest is sound art installation (immersive, site-specific artistic constructions with sonic components), particularly the motivations of 1970-‘80s artist-composers and audiences as well as current sound art trends. Her continuing research encompasses soundscape…
Current Musicology StudentsPaul David FloodSTUDENT PROFILE Paul David Flood (he/him) is a musicologist studying migration and globalization, with a specialization in contemporary European popular music, cultural history, and politics. He is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology at the Eastman School of Music. His dissertation, titled “‘United By Music’: Europeanism, Migration, and Belonging through the…
Current Musicology StudentsLauren BerlinSTUDENT PROFILE Lauren Berlin (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology whose primary research explores the intersections of television music, broadcasting culture, and transnational circulation. Her dissertation examines how hosts, networks, musicians, and audiences used TV musical variety shows from 1948–1965 as a site for the negotiation of postwar American identity. She…
Organ, Historical Keyboards and Sacred MusicBenjamin Kjell Benjamin Kjell is a doctoral student in organ performance and literature at Eastman School of Music in the studio of Nathan Laube. He received a bachelor’s degree in church music (2018) and a master’s degree in organ and related keyboard instruments (2021) at the Academy of Music and…
Organ, Historical Keyboards and Sacred MusicAugustine Kweku Sobeng Augustine Sobeng is a native of Shama, in the Western Region of Ghana. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Medical Laboratory Technology in 2014 from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (K.N.U.S.T) in Kumasi, Ghana. He studied for his Masters in Organ Performance under…
Organ, Historical Keyboards and Sacred MusicAaron Tan Concert organist Aaron Tan is a leading young artist in North America. In October 2021 he was awarded First Prize at the 2021 Canadian International Organ Competition as well as three additional awards for performances of specific works at the competition (the Sir Ernest MacMillan Award for Canadian…
DATES AND AUDITION OPTIONS 2026 Rochester Audition Dates: Fridays, February 6th, February 13th, and February 20th. 2026 Remote Audition Option: Applicants who would like to audition virtually should upload their audition requirements within their application by February 1st. Those auditioning virtually should record each selection in a separate file with a total combined length of…
DATES AND INTERVIEW OPTIONS 2026 Rochester Interview Dates: Fridays, January 30th, February 6th, 20th, and 27th. 2026 Remote Interview Option: A virtual finalist interview will be scheduled with our Jazz Composition faculty member over Zoom in February 2026. PRE-SCREENING AND INTERVIEW REQUIREMENTSUndergraduate and Master’s Applicants Pre-screening: In addition to their instrumental pre-screening and audition requirements…
Emlyn Johnson, DMA, 2015 Emlyn Johnson is a flutist and project leader dedicated to bringing music to the ears of new audiences. Johnson is the co-director of Music in the American Wild, an initiative that celebrates American people, places, and stories through the commission and performance of new music. Since 2016 she has commissioned more than…
