The Eastman Student Teacher Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA) comprises two evaluations per student teaching placement: (a) an evaluation based on a formal observation by the Eastman supervisor and (b) completion of a summative evaluation by the cooperating teacher. The Eastman instructor of record will review both evaluations when assigning the final grade for the student…
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BM, University of Western Ontario; MM, PhD, University of Michigan. ASCAP Deems Taylor award (1997) for The Music of Alban Berg (Yale University Press, 1996). Published and presented on Berg’s music, other 20th-century music, acoustics, popular music, rhythm in tonal music, computing and music. Recipient, National Science Foundation grants (1996, 1997, 2000). Co-founder of the Music Research…
Bill Dobbins is Professor Emeritus of jazz studies & contemporary media at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. He joined the faculty in 1973, and was instrumental in designing the curricula for the masters and bachelors degree programs offered by Eastman’s Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media department. As a pianist, he performed…
Faculty members, students and alumni from the Eastman School of Music, of the University of Rochester, will be featured at several venues in and around downtown Rochester during the twelfth annual Rochester Fringe Festival (Fringe), running from September 12-23, 2023. Additionally, Eastman’s venues will play host to several events. The schedule of Fringe shows taking…
Pianist Russell Miller has been a coach and teacher of vocal repertoire at Eastman since 1995. He has performed throughout the United States and abroad as soloist and chamber musician, including concert tours to Korea and Hong Kong with tenor Robert White and to Alaska and the former Soviet Union with cellist Stephen Kates. With…
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Gretchen Berendt Gretchen Berendt, an avid orchestral and chamber musician from Wampum, Pennsylvania, will graduate from the Eastman School of Music in May with a Bachelor of Music degree in Horn Performance and a Performer’s Certificate. While at Eastman, Gretchen has performed with the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, Eastman Opera Theater Orchestra, Eastman…
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Charles Berofsky Equally at home as a solo pianist, collaborator, and composer, Charles Berofsky seeks to engage audiences through a myriad of styles and genres of music. Charles studied at the Eastman School of Music for the past four years as a double major in composition and piano performance. This fall he will…
Brightening Air The Eastman Wind Ensemble, Mark Davis Scatterday, Conductor Tony Arnold, Soprano Track Listing https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/brightening-air Brightening Air is also available on Spotify and Apple Music About the Album David Liptak, longtime composition faculty member of the Eastman School of Music, releases this compilation of his music for wind ensemble, written for and inspired by…
Jan Opalach has received a Sullivan Foundation Award, won the National Arts Club Vocal Music Competition, Kosciuszko Foundation’s Marcella Sembrich Award, prestigious Walter M. Naumburg Vocal Competition, Metropolitan Opera National Auditions, s’Hertogenbosch International Vocalisten Concours as well as a National Endowment for the Arts Soloist Recital Grant. He has been heard in recitals at Alice…