Collegium MusicumDIRECTOR | Paul O’Dette The Collegium Musicum performs music from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, with repertoire ranging from solo cantatas to madrigals, oratorios, operas, concertos, and other orchestral works. Recent concerts have included performances of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, Handel’s Concerti Grossi, op. 3, Purcell’s King Arthur and The Fairy Queen, Lully’s Psyché and Thésée, Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo,…
Eastman School Symphony OrchestraDIRECTOR | Neil Varon The Eastman School of Music has three orchestras, regularly performing repertoire representative of all musical style periods. Two performing venues at Eastman allow students and faculty to present concerts in an acoustically fine and artistically well-conceived concert space: the newly-renovated Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, which seats approximately…
Eastman Studio OrchestraDIRECTOR | Bill Dobbins The Eastman Studio Orchestra combines the personnel of the Eastman Jazz Ensemble with a full complement of strings, woodwinds, French horns, tuba, harp, and percussion from Eastman’s two symphony orchestras. Using the large professional recording studio ensemble, Hollywood film soundstage orchestras, European radio orchestras, and the Radio City Music…
Eastman PhilharmoniaDIRECTOR | Neil Varon The Eastman School of Music has three orchestras, regularly performing repertoire representative of all musical style periods. Two performing venues at Eastman allow students and faculty to present concerts in an acoustically fine and artistically well-conceived concert space: the newly-renovated Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, which seats approximately 3,000, and…
Piano Accompanying StudioYucong (Zoe) WangPiano Accompanying Yucong (Zoe) Wang is a composer, pianist, and classical music entrepreneur from China. She is currently pursuing her two Doctoral of Musical Arts degrees in collaborative piano and composition at Eastman School of Music, where she holds the Brook Smith Fellowship, the Samuel Adler Scholarship, a graduate assistantship as…
Piano Accompanying GraduatesWilliam ShiPiano Accompanying Australian pianist William Shi has garnered first prizes at numerous competitions including the Petrof, Vivace/Yamaha, and Queensland Piano Competitions. He has appeared at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music and the Australian Piano Duo Festival. William is a recipient of the Theme & Variations Foundation Award, an American Australian Association…
Piano Accompanying StudioJohn RobertsonPiano Accompanying John Robertson holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Piano Performance and Pedagogy, and he is currently pursuing a DMA in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music at the Eastman School of Music, studying with Dr. Andrew Harley. In 2019, he was the recipient of the Barbara M. H. Koeng Award for…
Piano Accompanying GraduatesChun-Hsin LiuPiano Accompanying Chun-Hsin (Cynthia) Liu, originally from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is currently pursuing her DMA degree in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music at the Eastman School of Music, where she holds a Graduate Assistantship in Studio Accompanying, Opera Pianist Assistantship in the Voice and Opera Department and studies with Dr. Andrew Harley. Chun-Hsin…
Piano Accompanying StudioJenny ChooPiano Accompanying Jenny Choo is pursuing the DMA in Accompanying and Chamber Music at the Eastman School of Music, studying with Dr. Andrew Harley. She holds graduate assistantships in Studio Accompanying and Opera, and was also a member of the coaching staff at SUNY Geneseo. Prior to her studies at Eastman, she…
Piano Accompanying StudioXi HuangPiano Accompanying Xi Huang was born in China and began studying piano and voice at an early age. In 2023, she graduated from the Eastman School of Music with her MM degree in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music. She is currently pursuing her DMA degree in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music, continuing…
