Noah Kahrs

Assistant Professor of Music Theory

Noah Kahrs Assistant Professor of Music Theory   DEPARTMENTTheoryCONTACT INFOEmail Professor KahrsBIOGRAPHY Noah Kahrs is a music theorist specializing in the last century’s experimental musics and the theories they carry. His research spans music by a wide range of composers including Hans Abrahamsen, Maryanne Amacher, Julius Eastman, Sofia Gubaidulina, Ryoji Ikeda, György Ligeti, Alvin Lucier, Giacinto…

Eastman Supervisor Student Teacher Evaluation

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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DAVID HEADLAM

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

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…

The Twelfth Annual Rochester Fringe Festival Features Eastman Faculty, Students and Alumni

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…

RUSSELL MILLER

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…

2022-2023 Pi Kappa Lambda Inductees

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…

2021-2022 Pi Kappa Lambda Inductees

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…