Jurgen Thym Professor Emeritus of Musicology BIOGRAPHY Professor Emeritus of musicology. Abitur in classical languages, Athenaeum Stade, Germany; state examination in Schulmusik, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Berlin; state examination in history, Freie Universität, Berlin; PhD in musicology, Case Western Reserve. Specialties in 19th- and 20th-century music. Author of articles and reviews in MLA Notes, Comparative Literature,…
Barry Snyder Professor Emeritus of Piano BIOGRAPHY BM, MM, Performer’s Certificate, Artist’s Diploma, Eastman. Studied piano with Vladimir Sokoloff and Cécile Genhart, accompanying with Brooks Smith. Member, Eastman Trio (1976-82), Meadowmount Trio (1989-90); triple prize winner, Van Cliburn International Competition (1966). Mu Phi Epsilon Musician of the Year (1987). Thirty-two solo, concerto, and chamber…
Thomas Schumacher Professor Emeritus of Piano BIOGRAPHY BM, Manhattan School of Music; Diploma, MS, doctoral studies, Juilliard. Piano studies with Fisher Thompson, Robert Goldsand, Beveridge Webster, Adele Marcus. Chamber music studies with Bernard Greenhouse, Rachmael Weinstock, Raphael Hillyer, Raphael Bronstein, and Hans Letz. Awards include Harold Bauer Award (highest honors at Manhattan), Loeb Memorial…
Ramon Ricker Professor Emeritus of Saxophone Jazz SonataViper Cipher BIOGRAPHY At the time of his retirement in spring 2013,Ramon Ricker was Senior Associate Dean for Professional Studies, Director of the Institute for Music Leadership and Professor of Saxophone at the Eastman School of Music. As a senior administrator at Eastman, Dr. Ricker was instrumental in…
Ernestine McHugh Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Religion BIOGRAPHY BA, University of California-Santa Cruz; PhD, University of California-San Diego. Research interests in comparative religion and cultural anthropology. Specialization in Asia, with extended field research in the Himalayas. Articles and reviews in The Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalaya, Comparative Studies in Society and History, The…
John Marcellus Professor Emeritus of Trombone BIOGRAPHY Dr. John Marcellus was appointed Professor and Director of the Eastman Trombone Choir in 1978 after a worldwide search for an heir to carry on the legacy of Eastman’s legendary Professor of Trombone, Emory Remington(1922-1972), the “Chief.” “Doc” Marcellus is internationally known as a soloist for his…
Patrick Macey Professor Emeritus of Musicology BIOGRAPHY Patrick Macey is Professor of Musicology Emeritus at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. One facet of his research addresses social and political functions of Florentine music under Lorenzo de’ Medici and the reforming friar Girolamo Savonarola. His book, Bonfire Songs: Savonarola’s Musical Legacy (Oxford, 1998), received…
Kim H. Kowalke Professor Emeritus of Musicology BIOGRAPHY BA (summa cum laude), Macalester College; MA, MPhil, PhD, Yale. Winner of Theron Rockwell Field Prize for dissertation Kurt Weill in Europe, 1900-35: A Study of His Music and Writings. Member of Phi Beta Kappa. Recipient, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, Martha Baird Rockefeller Grant, Whiting Prize Dissertation Fellowship,…
Ellen Koskoff Professor Emerita of Ethnomusicology BIOGRAPHY BM, Boston University; MA, Columbia; PhD, University of Pittsburgh. Music in Lubavitcher Life, 2000, winner of ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music Scholarship 2001. Editor, Music Cultures in the United States, 2004. Ethnomusicology advisor for The New Amerigroves. General editor, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol. 3: United States and…
John Hunt Professor Emeritus of Bassoon BIOGRAPHY BM, Eastman; MM, Catholic University. Studied with Loren Glickman, Leonard Sharrow, K. David Van Hoesen, Arthur Weisburg. Principal bassoon, Naples Philharmonic, Aspen Music Festival Orchestra, Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, United States Army Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica del Palacio de Mineria (Mexico City), Monadnock Music Festival,…