Vincent Lenti Professor Emeritus of Piano Eastman School Historian DEPARTMENTSPianoCONTACT INFOEmail Professor Lenti585-274-1594BIOGRAPHY BM, MA, Eastman; additional studies, Teachers College, Columbia University. Various professional memberships including 15-year term as treasurer of New York State Music Teachers Association. Recipient, NYSMTA 25th Anniversary Award for Outstanding Service (1986), NYSMTA Citation (1992), Jack L. Frank Award (1998) for…
Jean M. Barr Professor Emerita of Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music BIOGRAPHY Jean Barr is Professor Emerita of Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music at the Eastman School of Music, where she founded the collaborative piano degree programs in 1988. The first person in the United States to earn a doctoral degree in Accompanying, she studied…
Natalya Antonova Wentworth Family Professor Emerita of Piano Mussorgsky: Pictures at an ExhibitionANTONOVA Scriabin, Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 2 No. 1 DEPARTMENTSPianoCONTACT INFOEmail Professor Antonova585-274-1528BIOGRAPHY Natalya Antonova made her debut with the Leningrad Philharmonic at the age of 16. As a soloist of two major concert managements, “State Concert” and “Soviet Union Concert”, she…
Lisa Caravan Assistant Professor of Music Teaching and Learning DEPARTMENTSMusic Teaching & LearningArts LeadershipCONTACT INFOEmail Professor Caravan585-274-1530BIOGRAPHY Dr. Lisa R. Caravan, is a string pedagogue, cellist and conductor who most recently served as assistant professor of music at Bucknell University. Her previous positions included assistant professor of String Music Education at Auburn University and lecturer in…
Organ, Historical Keyboards and Sacred MusicAndrew Van VarickCURRENT STUDENT PROFILE Andrew Van Varick, originally of Newton, New Jersey, is a doctoral student in organ performance and literature at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, under the instruction of David Higgs. Previously, he received his Master’s degree at Eastman, and he holds a…
Kristina BeckerAssistant Professor of GermanDEPARTMENTHumanitiesCONTACT INFOEmail Professor Becker585-275-4251BIOGRAPHY Kristina Becker teaches German in the Humanities Department at the Eastman School of Music. She received her Master’s Degree in Education and American Studies at the Free University and Humboldt University Berlin. She taught for several years in the Berlin school system. She also taught beginning, intermediate…
Here are some select recent clippings showing the variety of hits/mentions identifying musicians and scholars as Eastman School of Music alumni, faculty or students. (Note: Some links may have expired.) The Eastman School of Music launches its Centennial celebration – Opera News (Daily Advent 07/09/2021) The Eastman School of Music, of the University of Rochester,…
Nurturing the Love of Music, the third volume of Vincent Lenti’s history of the Eastman School of Music, of the University of Rochester, has now been published by University of Rochester Press. This most recent addition to the written history of the school focuses on the period when Robert Freeman served as the school’s fourth…
The EAP (English for Academic Purposes) program is designed to aid students’ acquisition of American academic and professional English at Eastman. Each EAP course focuses on the study of authentic reading and lecture materials from both academic and professional contexts that aid students in their integration of the core language skill areas of reading, writing,…
The Humanities Department offers a range of options for the study of French language and the cultures of the French-speaking world. Courses at Eastman include: Elementary and Intermediate language sequences Two semesters of French Lyric Diction Advanced courses (in French) on cinema, literature, and culture Electives on French history, literature, film, and culture taught in…
