John Marcellus

Professor Emeritus of Trombone

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

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 Kowalke

Professor Emeritus of Musicology

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

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

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,…

Richard Grunow

Professor Emeritus of Music Education

Richard F. Grunow Professor Emeritus of Music Education   BIOGRAPHY Richard F. Grunow is Professor Emeritus of Music Education in the Department of Music Teaching and Learning at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. A leading innovator in beginning instrumental music instruction, Dr. Grunow is an active lecturer and clinician, having presented extensively…

John Graham viola

Professor Emeritus of Viola

John Graham Professor Emeritus of Viola   BIOGRAPHY BA, University of California-Berkeley. Studied with Philip Burton, William Primrose, George Neikrug, Renzo Sabatini, the Griller Quartet, and in master class with Pablo Casals. Former member, Beaux-Arts Quartet, Galimir String Quartet, and Speculum Musicae. Guest artist with Juilliard Quartet, Guarnieri Quartet, Mendelssohn Quartet, Ying Quartet, Tokyo Quartet,…

Emeriti Faculty

Samuel Adler, composition Natalya Antonova, piano Jean Barr, piano accompanying and chamber music John Beck, percussion Harold Danko, jazz studies and contemporary media Bill Dobbins, jazz studies and contemporary media Roy Ernst, music teaching and learning (music education) Donna Brink Fox, music teaching and learning (music education) Robert Gauldin, theory John Graham, viola Richard F. Grunow, music teaching…

Facilities & Auxiliary Operations

Facilities service requests or emergencies: Call 273-4567 Location: ESM 29 Phone: 274-1172 (for non-emergencies)   Paul Spaulding, Director pspaulding@esm.rochester.edu   Greg D’Hont, Assistant Director gdhont@facilities.rochester.edu     Mary Santiago, Housekeeping Supervisor msantiago@esm.rochester.edu   Kim Preston, Secretary kpreston@esm.rochester.edu   The Office of Facilities and Auxiliary Operations at the Eastman School of Music is responsible as the…