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research university in Rochester, New York. It was established in 1921 by industrialist and philanthropist George Eastman. It offers Bachelor of Music (B.M.) degrees, Master of Arts (M.A.) degrees, Master of Music (M.M.) degrees, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees, and Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) degrees in many musical fields. The school also awards a "Performer's Certificate" or "Artist's Diploma". In 2015, there were more than 900 students enrolled in the collegiate division of the Eastman School (approximately 500 undergraduate and 400 graduate students). Students came from almost every state of the United States, with approximately 25%

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. Each year approximately 2000 students apply (1000 undergraduates and 1000 graduates). The acceptance rate was 13% in 2011 and about 1,000 students (ranging in age from 16 years to over 80 years of age) are enrolled in the Eastman School’s Community Music School.

History

Alfred Klingenberg Alfred "Alf" Klingenberg (8 September 1867 - 20 April 1944), a Norwegian pianist and composer of great distinction, was the Eastman School of Music´s first director (1921–23). He was succeeded by composer Howard Hanson in 1924. Klingenberg st ...

, a Norwegian pianist, was the school's first director, serving from 1921 to 1923. He was succeeded by composer Howard Hanson in 1924, who had an enormous impact on the development of the school, including influencing the creation the first Doctor of Musical Arts degree in the United States. Upon his retirement in 1964, after serving as director of the school for 40 years, Hanson was succeeded by conductor Walter Hendl. Hendl served as director from 1964 to 1972, and was then succeeded by pianist and musicologist Robert Freeman who served from 1972 to 1996. Associate Director Daniel Patrylak served as the acting director from the time of Mr. Hendl’s resignation (May 1972) until Robert Freeman assumed the position in July 1973. Following the resignation of Robert Freeman in 1996, James Undercofler was then appointed Director and Dean of the Eastman School, and held that position until he resigned in 2006 to accept the position of C.E.O. and President of the

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. Jamal Rossi, an Eastman alumnus, was appointed Interim Dean of the Eastman School in April 2006. On May 21, 2007, composer/conductor Douglas Lowry, formerly the dean of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, was appointed Dean of the Eastman School, to begin serving in 2007. Following Lowry's death in 2013, Rossi was appointed Dean.

Campus and facilities

The Eastman School occupies parts of five buildings in downtown Rochester, New York. The main hall includes the renovated 3,094-seat Eastman Theater, the 455-seat Kilbourn Hall, the 222-seat Hatch Recital Hall, and offices for faculty. The Eastman Theatre opened in 1922 as a center for music, dance, and silent film with orchestral and organ accompaniment. Today, the 3,094-seat theatre is the primary concert hall for the Eastman School's larger ensembles, including its orchestras, wind ensembles, jazz ensembles, and chorale. Also, the Eastman Opera Theatre presents fully staged operatic productions in the theatre each spring. It also is the principal performance venue for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. A $5 million renovation of the theatre was completed in 2004. The theatre is located at 60 Gibbs Street, on the corner of Main and Gibbs Streets. Due to a $10 million donation by Eastman Kodak Inc. in April 2008, the Eastman Theatre was officially renamed "Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre" upon the renovation's completion in 2010. The Sibley Music Library—the largest academic music library in North America, is located across the street from the main hall. Hiram Watson Sibley founded the library in 1904 using the fortune he made as first president of Western Union. It moved to its current location in 1989, and occupies on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors of the Miller Center, formerly known as Eastman Place. The Sibley Music Library currently holds almost 750,000 items, ranging from 11th century codices to the latest compositions and recordings. Considered among its jewels are the original drafts of Debussy's impressionistic masterpiece, "La Mer". The Student Living Center, which is located at 100 Gibbs Street, is the dormitory building of the Eastman School of Music. In 1991, the new building was opened at the corner of Main and Gibbs Streets, replacing the University Avenue dormitories built nearly 70 years earlier. It is a four-story quadrangle and 14-story tower surrounding a landscaped inner courtyard, and contains its own dining hall. The majority of students enrolled in the undergraduate program live on campus in this building.

Academics

The school offers Bachelor of Music (B.M.) degrees, Master of Arts (M.A.) degrees, Master of Music (M.M.) degrees, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees, and Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) degrees in many musical fields. The school also awards a "Performer's Certificate" or "Artist's Diploma" to students who demonstrate exceptionally outstanding performance ability. The Institute for Music Leadership, which was formed in 2001, offers a variety of diploma programs designed to educate and give students the skills and experience necessary to meet the demands of performance and education in today’s changing musical world. In 2018, The Institute for Music Leadership created a Master of Arts degree in Music Leadership for musicians who seek to lead traditional or non-traditional musical arts organizations.

Faculty and alumni

Eastman alumni include singer Renée Fleming, Canadian Brass co-founder Charles Daellenbach, cellist Robert deMaine, drummer Steve Gadd, flugelhornist Chuck Mangione, author and journalist Michael Walsh, trumpeter Allen Vizzutti, scholar

Horace Clarence Boyer Dr. Horace Clarence Boyer (July 28, 1935 – July 21, 2009) was one of the foremost scholars in African-American gospel music. Life and career Boyer received a B.A. from Bethune-Cookman College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Eastman School of ...

and composers Maria Schneider and

Cardon V. Burnham Cardon Vern Burnham Jr. (25 February 1927 – 19 February 2005) was an American composer, arranger, conductor, and performer of musical genre. His work included classical, choral, jazz, orchestral, operatic, and chamber music, most notably the ...

. Current faculty include musicians and pedagogues like the Ying Quartet,

Anthony Dean Griffey Anthony Dean Griffey (born February 12 in High Point, North Carolina) is an American opera tenor. He is a regular presence on the stages of opera houses and concert halls around the world. Griffey has also been noted for his acting talent in additi ...

, Katherine Ciesinski and Paul O'Dette.

Directors and deans

(Director, 1921–1923) * Raymond Wilson (Acting Director, 1923–1924) * Howard Hanson (Director, 1924–1964) * Walter Hendl (Director, 1964–1972) * Daniel Patrylak (Acting Director, 1972–1973) * Robert Freeman (Director, 1973–1996) * James Undercofler (Acting Director, 1996–1997; Director, 1997–2006) * Jamal Rossi (Acting Director, 2006–2007; Acting Dean, 2013) * Douglas Lowry (Dean, 2007–2013) * Jamal Rossi (Dean, 2014–present)

Notable teachers

* Samuel Adler, composition *

John H. Beck John H. Beck (born February 16, 1933) is professor emeritus of percussion at the Eastman School of Music and was principal timpanist for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from 1962 to 2002. Career Beck was born on February 16, 1933, in Lew ...

, percussion *

Warren Benson Warren Benson (January 26, 1924 – October 6, 2005) was an American composer. His compositions consist mostly of music for wind instruments and percussion. His most notable piece is titled ''The Leaves Are Falling''. Biography Benson was born in ...

, composition *

Bonita Boyd Bonita Boyd (born August 1, 1949) is an American flutist, soloist and pedagogue. She has been the Professor of Flute at the Eastman School of Music since 1977, when she succeeded her mentor Joseph Mariano. Her primary teachers include Mariano, Mau ...

, flute *

David Burge David Russell Burge (March 25, 1930 – April 1, 2013) was an American pianist, conductor and composer. As a performer, he was noted for championing contemporary pieces. The ''New York Times'' called him "one of America's important pianists," and h ...

, piano *

Charles Martin Castleman Charles Martin Castleman (born 22 May 1941) is an American violinist and teacher. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, he began violin lessons at the age of four with Ondricek. When he was six he appeared as a soloist with Arthur Fiedler and the Bos ...

, violin *Heidi Castleman, viola * Katherine Ciesinski, voice * David Craighead, organ * Robert De Cormier, choral conductor * Jan De Gaetani, voice * Leonardo De Lorenzo, flute * David Effron, orchestral conductor *Cecile Genhart, piano *

Frank Glazer Frank Glazer (February 19, 1915 – January 13, 2015) was an American pianist, composer, and teacher of music. Career details Glazer was born in Chester, Wisconsin on February 19, 1915, the sixth child of Benjamin and Clara Glazer, Jewish emig ...

, piano * Harold Gleason, organ *

Nicholas Goluses Nicholas Goluses is a professor of classical guitar at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. Goluses has held the Andrés Segovia Chair at the Manhattan School of Music, as the founder and chair of that school's guitar departm ...

, guitar *

, voice *

Arthur Hartmann Arthur Martinus Hartmann (né Arthur Hartman; July 23, 1881 – March 30, 1956)Arthur Hartmann Project, MusicSack, was an American violinist, composer and friend of Claude Debussy. Hartmann was the son of Sigmund Hartman and Pepi Schweiger, who h ...

, violin * Stanley Hasty, clarinet *

David Higgs David Higgs is an American organist. He has given a large number of recitals and is the head of the organ department at the Eastman School of Music. Life Higgs earned his B.M. and M.M. at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, with a Pe ...

, organ *

Donald Hunsberger Donald Hunsberger (born August 2, 1932 in Souderton, Pennsylvania) is an American conductor and arranger. He served as the conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble from 1965 until 2001. He also held the position of Professor of conducting at the Eas ...

, wind ensemble conductor * Mark Kellogg, euphonium & trombone *

Henry Klumpenhouwer Henry Klumpenhouwer is a Canadian musicologist and former professor at the University of Alberta. He currently teaches at the Eastman School of Music. A former PhD student of David Lewin and the inventor of Klumpenhouwer networks, which are named a ...

, music theory *

Alexander Kobrin Alexander Yevgenyevich Kobrin (Александр Кобрин, born 20 March 1980 in Moscow) is a concert pianist and teacher. At age five, he enrolled in the Gnessin Special School of Music in Moscow where his primary teacher was Tatiana Ze ...

, piano * Oleh Krysa, violin *W.

Peter Kurau W. Peter Kurau is the Professor of Horn and Chamber Music at the Eastman School of Music as well as the Principal Horn of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. He currently resides in Honeoye Falls, New York, with his wife, soprano singer Pamela K ...

, horn *

Ralph P. Locke Ralph P. Locke (born 1949) is an American musicologist, classical music critic and professor emeritus of musicology at Eastman School of Music. He founded the ''Eastman Studies in Music'' series. He is a contributor to the ''New Grove Dictionary o ...

, musicologist *

Eileen Malone Eileen Malone (August 16, 1906 – 1999) was an American harpist and music educator. Life and career Malone was born in Victor, New York, and studied harp at Eastman School of Music, graduating in 1928. She continued her studies at the Paris Cons ...

, harp * Jon Manasse, clarinet * Chuck Mangione, jazz ensemble *

John Marcellus John Marcellus is a trombone musician and teacher. He was Professor of Trombone at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, and past Chair of the Woodwind, Brass, and Percussion Department. In addition to his trombone teachin ...

, trombone * Paul O'Dette, lute, early music * Thomas Paul, voice *

Emory Remington Emory Brace Remington (1892–1971) was a trombonist and music teacher. His unique method made him one of the most well-known and influential trombone educators in history. He was a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from 1923 to 1949 ...

, trombone * Mendi Rodan, orchestral conductor *

Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez (born 1964 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Latin-American composer and teacher. He currently resides near Rochester, New York. Sanchez-Gutierrez grew up in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Guadalajara and later studied at the Univers ...

, composition * Joseph Schwantner, composition *, piano *

William G. Street William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Eng ...

, percussion *

Yi-Kwei Sze Yi-Kwei Sze (斯义桂 pinyin: Sī Yìguì, Shanghai, 1915- San Francisco, November 5, 1994) was a Chinese operatic bass-baritone and music educator. A graduate of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Yi-Kwei began his career performing and teaching ...

, voice * K. David van Hoesen, bassoon *

Ruth Taiko Watanabe Ruth Taiko Watanabe (May 12, 1916 – ) was a Japanese-American music librarian. For 38 years (1946-1984), she ran the Sibley Music Library at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. She was called "one of the great music li ...

, music librarian *

Marion Weed Marion Weed (September 12, 1865 in Rochester, New York – June 22, 1947 in Rochester, New York) was an internationally famous American opera singer ( dramatic soprano) with lead roles in the Metropolitan Opera, the Cologne Opera, and the Ha ...

, voice *

Rayburn Wright Rayburn Wright (27 August 1922 – 21 March 1990) was an American trombonist, composer, arranger and conductor, and professor of jazz studies and contemporary media at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, New York New York mos ...

, jazz and contemporary media *

Zvi Zeitlin Zvi Zeitlin (21 February 19222 May 2012) was a Russian-born American classical violinist and teacher. Born in Dubroŭna (now in Belarus), the son of Jewish parents: a doctor and amateur violinist, Zeitlin won a scholarship at the age of 11 to th ...

, violin *

Oscar Zimmerman Oscar G. Zimmerman (September 21, 1910 – April 2, 1987) was an American musician, teacher and double-bass player. Life and career Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1910, Oscar Zimmerman was the double bassist with the Rochester Philhar ...

, double bass

Notable alumni

Sasami Ashworth Sasami Ashworth (born June 23, 1990), known mononymously as Sasami, is an American musician who records music in a variety of styles, from singer-songwriter ballads to heavy metal and industrial. She began her career as a member of Cherry Glaz ...

, singer * Roger Bobo, tubist *

, flutist *

, scholar *

Angelo Badalamenti Angelo Daniel Badalamenti (March 22, 1937 – December 11, 2022) was an American composer, best known for his work scoring films for director David Lynch, notably '' Blue Velvet'', the ''Twin Peaks'' saga (1990–1992, 2017), ''The Straight St ...

, film and television composer *

Rosemarie Brancato Rosemarie Brancato (October 2, 1910 – June 18, 1994) was an American coloratura soprano who had an active performance career in operas, operettas, and concerts on the American stage and on American radio from the mid-1930s into the 1950s. She c ...

, soprano * Jeff Briggs, video game developer *

, composer *

Ron Carter Ronald Levin Carter (born May 4, 1937) is an American jazz double bassist. His appearances on 2,221 recording sessions make him the most-recorded jazz bassist in history. He has won three Grammy awards, and is also a cellist who has recorded nu ...

, bassist *

Alexander Courage Alexander Mair Courage Jr. (December 10, 1919May 15, 2008) familiarly known as "Sandy" Courage, was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film. He is best known as the composer of the theme musi ...

, film composer * Michael Patrick Coyle, composer, producer * Paul Crawford, jazz musician, music historian * Charles Daellenbach, OC, co-founder of Canadian Brass * David Daniels, conductor and author * Robert deMaine, cellist * Doriot Anthony Dwyer, flutist *

Frederick Fennell Frederick Fennell (July 2, 1914 – December 7, 2004) was an internationally recognized conductor and one of the primary figures in promoting the Eastman Wind Ensemble as a performing group. He was also influential as a band pedagogue, and grea ...

, band conductor * David Finck, jazz bassist *

Pamela Fleming Pamela Fleming (born 10 October 1957) is an American musician who composes and plays trumpet and flugelhorn. Born in New York City, her family moved to the suburb of New City, New York when she was a child. She grew up in New City and graduate ...

, trumpeter, composer * Renée Fleming, singer *

Cynthia Folio Cynthia Folio (born December 24, 1954) is an American composer, flutist, and music theorist. She is a professor of Music Studies at Temple University, where she was honored with the Creative Achievement Award in 2012 and the Lindback Award for Dis ...

, flutist, theorist, composer * Steve Gadd, drummer *

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, percussionist *

Ayşedeniz Gökçin Ayşedeniz Gökçin (born January 4, 1988; anglicised as "AyseDeniz Gokcin") is a Turkish classical pianist and composer. After graduating in 2009 with a bachelor's degree from Eastman School of Music, Gökçin completed a master's degree at th ...

, pianist *

Diana Haskell Diana Haskell is a multi-faceted clarinetist who works as an orchestral clarinetist, educator, clinician and chamber musician. Haskell is currently Associate Principal Clarinet with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. In her role as Associate Princi ...

, clarinetist * Christos Hatzis, composer * Yoshishisa Hirano, anime composer * Katherine Hoover, composer, flutist, educator, author *Kent Jordan, jazz flutist *

Michael Isaacson Michael Isaacson (born in Brooklyn, New York, USA in 1946) is a composer of Jewish synagogue music, and one of the originators of the Jewish camp song movement.Alexander Gelfand"A Musical Midrashist" ''The Forward'', December 5, 2007. His camp ...

, Jewish music composer *

Donald Kendrick Donald M. Kendrick (born 1947) is the Calgary, Alberta-born director of choral activities at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) and the director of music at Sacred Heart Church where he conducts Schola Cantorum and Vox Nova (Men's Choru ...

, choir director, organist * Kay Lande, composer and singer *

Judith LeClair Judith LeClair (born 1958), from Newark, Delaware, is an American bassoonist. She has been the principal bassoon in the New York Philharmonic since 1981 and on the faculty at the Juilliard School since 1985. LeClair began studying the instrument ...

, bassoonist * Tony Levin, bassist * Scott Lindroth, composer *

Bob Ludwig Robert C. Ludwig (born c. 1945) is an American mastering engineer. He has mastered recordings on all the major recording formats for all the major record labels, and on projects by more than 1,300 artists including Led Zeppelin, Lou Reed, Qu ...

, mastering engineer * Chuck Mangione, flugelhornist *

Ailbhe McDonagh Ailbhe McDonagh (born 29 November 1982 in Dublin) is an Irish concert cellist and composer. Her compositions have been published by Boosey & Hawkes, Hal Leonard, RIAM and ABRSM. She performs worldwide as a soloist, chamber musician, recording a ...

, cellist, composer * Mitch Miller, oboist, conductor, record company executive * Erin Morley, operatic sopranoBurger, David
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Lee Musiker Lee Musiker (born May 26, 1956) is an Americans, American Grammy Award-winner jazz pianist, arranger, orchestrator and conductor. Biography Born in New York City in 1956, Mr. Musiker studied music theory and piano at the Manhattan School of Music ...

, arranger * Kim Scharnberg, composer, arranger, conductor, record producer * Maria Schneider, composer *

Byron Stripling Byron Stripling is a jazz trumpeter who has been a member of the Count Basie Orchestra. Career He was born Lloyd Byron Stripling on August 20, 1961, in Atlanta, Georgia.He attended Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and the Interloc ...

, jazz trumpeter * Jeff Tyzik, jazz trumpeter * Allen Vizzutti, trumpeter *Mark Volpe, president & CEO, Boston Symphony Orchestra *

George Vosburgh George Vosburgh (born Sept. 24, 1957) was the principal trumpet player of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 1992 until his retirement in 2017. He is a teacher at Carnegie Mellon University; he taught at Duquesne University until the 2015 scho ...

, trumpeter * Michael Walsh, author and journalist * Leehom Wang, singer * William Warfield, singer *Richard Wargo, composer *

Helen L. Weiss Helen L. Weiss (January 29, 1920 - February 20, 1948) was an American composer, pianist and choir director. Biography Helen Weiss was born in Brooklyn, New York to Samuel and Sadie (Friedman) Weiss. She had two brothers, Bernard and Frank. The fa ...

, composer *

Norma Wendelburg Norma Ruth Wendelburg (March 26, 1918July 26, 2016) was an American composer, Fulbright scholar, pianist and teacher. Life Wendelburg was born in Stafford, Kansas, and won a scholarship to Bethany College (Kansas) where she received a B.M. d ...

, composer *

Alec Wilder Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder (February 16, 1907 – December 24, 1980) was an American composer. Biography Wilder was born in Rochester, New York, United States, to a prominent family; the Wilder Building downtown (at the "Four Corners") ...

, composer *

Jeffrey Zeigler The Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet based in San Francisco. It has been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for almost 50 years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including contemporary class ...

, celli

Institute for Music Leadership

The Institute for Music Leadership (IML) was created to engage musicians in new ways and challenge them to think more broadly about music, its role, and their role in society. It serves as a center for the creation and implementation of new ideas related to music leadership, for Eastman students, alumni, and practicing musicians at all stages of their careers. The goals of the IML reflect the expansion of Eastman's role as an innovator and a standard bearer in professional development. The IML consists of five areas: M.A. in Music Leadership, Careers and Professional Development, Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership Program (ALP), Center for Music Innovation and Engagement (CMIE), The Orchestra Musician Forum (OMF) and its website Polyphonic.org. It also offers online courses.

References

External links

Official website
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History

Campus and facilities

Academics

Faculty and alumni

Directors and deans

Notable teachers

Notable alumni

Institute for Music Leadership

See also

References

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