Eastman and ArtistShare

Helping Musicians Tell Their Stories: Eastman/ArtistShare® Program Announces 2020 and 2021 Artists

  For Media Only: Eastman: Katey Padden; (585) 248-1052, kpadden@esm.rochester.edu For Institute for Music Leadership: Rachel Roberts (585) 275-1730, rroberts@esm.rochester.edu For ArtistShare®: Jana Dagdagan, publicity@artistshare.com The Eastman/ArtistShare New Artist Program announces their 2021 artists Caitleen Kahn and Charlie Halloran, as well as their 2020 ArtistShare artist; fivebyfive (made up of four Eastman alumni). The ArtistShare…

Jean Pedersen

Professor of History

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Charlotte Marcy

Instructor of French

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…

Christina Curren

Vocal Coach
Associate Professor of German & German Lyric Diction

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Jonathan Baldo

Professor of English

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Kerala Johnson Snyder

Professor Emerita of Musicology

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…

Music Theory

Music TheoryAbout Our Program A comprehensive program in theory and musicianship contributes to the education of every undergraduate Eastman student, with courses for the well-rounded musician, including analysis, style composition, improvisation, and music making. Graduate students engage in advanced study with a world-class faculty to develop original research and innovative teaching. Music Theory Studies Music…

Joseph Rackers

Professor of Piano

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 Joseph Rackers is…

Rebecca Penneys

Professor Emerita of Piano

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,…