List of Eastman School of Music people
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- Martin Amlin, Composer, Boston University Chairman of Music Composition
- Dominick ArgentoDominick ArgentoDominick Argento is an American composer, best known as a leading composer of lyric opera and choral music...
, Composer - James AustinJames Austin (musician)James Lyle Austin is an American trumpeter and teacher.Austin earned his undergraduate degree from the Eastman School of Music, where he was featured as trumpet and cornet soloist on many of the recordings of the Eastman Wind Ensemble under the direction of Frederick Fennell...
, Trumpeter and Educator - Nicholson BakerNicholson BakerNicholson Baker is a contemporary American writer of fiction and non-fiction. As a novelist, he often focuses on minute inspection of his characters' and narrators' stream of consciousness, and has written about such provocative topics as voyeurism and planned assassination...
, Author - John BalmeJohn BalmeJohn Balme is an American conductor, opera manager and pianist. He served as General Director of Boston Lyric Opera from 1979 to 1989 and the Lake George Opera Festival from 1988 to 1992. he was also Music Director of the Liederkranz Foundation of the City of New York with a 15-year tenure from...
, Conductor - Daniel Bara, Director of Choral Activities, University of Georgia
- Thomas Bara, Organist, Organ Instructor at the Interlochen Arts Academy
- Jeff BealJeff BealJeff Beal is an American composer of music for film, television, recordings, and the concert hall. Highly regarded as a jazz instrumentalist and versatile composer, Beal's music often incorporates a synthesis of improvisatory and composed elements.- Early life :Beal began trumpet studies in the...
, Composer - Roger BoboRoger BoboRoger Bobo b. 1938 is a renowned and critically acclaimed American tuba virtuoso and internationally respected brass pedagogue. He retired from active tuba performance in 2001 in order to devote his time to conducting and teaching. He gave what is reputed to be the first solo tuba recital in the...
, Tuba Virtuoso - Jason Robert BrownJason Robert BrownJason Robert Brown is an American musical theater composer, lyricist, and playwright. Brown's music sensibility fuses pop-rock stylings with theatrical lyrics...
, Tony Award winning composer and pianist - Nicole CabellNicole CabellNicole Cabell , is an American opera singer. She is presently best known as the 2005 winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition....
, Soprano - Ron CarterRon CarterRon Carter is an American jazz double-bassist. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton, Ray Brown and Leroy Vinnegar. Carter is also an acclaimed cellist who has recorded numerous times on that...
, Jazz Musician - Michael Coyle, Composer, Trombonist
- Bill CunliffeBill CunliffeBill Cunliffe is an American jazz pianist and composer based in Los Angeles He has been described by The New York Times as being in the "modern jazz mainstream" and as an "accomplished pianist and composer." Ernie Rideout of Keyboard Magazine described Cunliffe's playing as "inventive, melodic,...
, Grammy AwardGrammy AwardA Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
winning composer, arranger, jazz pianist - Robert deMaineRobert deMaineRobert deMaine is an American virtuoso cellist.-Biography:Robert deMaine was born into a musical family of French and Polish ancestry...
, Principal Cello, Detroit Symphony OrchestraDetroit Symphony OrchestraThe Detroit Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Detroit, Michigan. Its main performance center is Orchestra Hall at the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit's Midtown neighborhood... - David DiamondDavid Diamond (composer)David Leo Diamond was an American composer of classical music.-Life and career:He was born in Rochester, New York and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music under Bernard Rogers, also receiving lessons from Roger Sessions in New York City and Nadia Boulanger in...
, Composer - Emma Lou DiemerEmma Lou DiemerEmma Lou Diemer is an American composer. Diemer has written many works for orchestra, chamber ensemble, keyboard, voice, chorus , and electronic media...
, Composer - Steven DoaneSteven DoaneSteven Doane is an American cellist and recitalist.Internationally acclaimed as a soloist, chamber musician, and master teacher, Steven Doane maintains an active performance schedule throughout the U.S and Europe. Starting cello at a young age, his principal teachers included Richard Kapuscinski,...
, Cellist - Doriot Anthony DwyerDoriot Anthony DwyerDoriot Anthony Dwyer is an American flautist. She was the first woman to be awarded principal chair for a major U.S. orchestra. She was the principal flute for the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1952 until 1990. She was second flute for the National Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles...
, Flautist, First woman named to Principal Chair of a major US Orchestra - Enrico ElisiEnrico ElisiEnrico Elisi is an Italian pianist from Bologna, Italy.Enrico Elisi regularly performs to acclaim throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. In Italy he has appeared in prestigious venues such as La Fenice Theatre, Venice; Palazzo Vecchio, Florence; Bibbiena Theatre, Mantua; Teatro Comunale Luciano...
, Pianist - Bradley EllingboeBradley EllingboeBradley Ellingboe is an American composer. Since 1985 he has been on the faculty of the University of New Mexico, where he is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities....
, Professor of music at the University of New MexicoUniversity of New MexicoThe University of New Mexico at Albuquerque is a public research university located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. It is the state's flagship research institution...
, composer - Eric EwazenEric EwazenEric Ewazen is an American composer and teacher. Ewazen studied composition under Samuel Adler, Milton Babbitt, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, Warren Benson, and Eugene Kurtz at the Eastman School of Music and The Juilliard School...
, Composer - Frederick FennellFrederick FennellFrederick Fennell was an internationally recognized conductor, and one of the primary figures in promoting the wind ensemble as a performing group. He was also influential as a band pedagogue, and greatly affected the field of music education in the USA and abroad...
, Conductor - John FergusonJohn Ferguson (organist)John Allen Ferguson is an American organist, teacher, and composer.Ferguson is probably best known for his choral compositions. He has also published alternate accompaniments and festival arrangements for organ, brass, and percussion of hymns and Lutheran liturgy, and has appeared on several...
, Organist, church musician, and composer - Kenneth Foerch, Jazz Saxophonist
- Renée FlemingRenée FlemingRenée Fleming is an American soprano specializing in opera and lieder. Fleming has a full lyric soprano voice.Fleming has performed coloratura, lyric, and lighter spinto soprano repertoires. She has sung roles in Italian, German, French, Czech, and Russian, aside from her native English. She also...
, Soprano - Dave FlippoDave FlippoDave Flippo , is a jazz pianist, composer, vocalist, teacher and bandleader based in the Chicago area...
, Jazz Composer, Pianist, Vocalist - Steve GaddSteve GaddSteve Gadd is an American session and studio drummer, notable for his work with popular musicians from a wide range of genres.-Biography:...
, Jazz Musician - Edwin GordonEdwin GordonEdwin E. Gordon, Research Professor at the University of South Carolina's , is an influential researcher, teacher, author, editor, and lecturer in the field of music education...
, Music Education Researcher - Jon HassellJon HassellJon Hassell is an American trumpet player and composer. He is known for his influence in the world music scene and his unusual electronic manipulation of the trumpet sound.-Life and career:...
, Composer and Improviser - Scott HealyScott HealyScott Healy is a Los Angeles-based keyboardist and composer best known as the keyboardist for the Jimmy Vivino and the Basic Cable Band on Conan on TBS. His long association with O'Brien dates back to the original Late Night with Conan O'Brien show, and the subsequent The Tonight Show with Conan...
, Keyboardist for Conan O'Brien ShowLate Night with Conan O'BrienLate Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. Late Night aired weeknights at 12:37 am... - Bernard HofferBernard HofferBernard Hoffer is an American composer who was born in Switzerland and conductor who has created original music for a number of different films, television series, and commercials. He has also conducted several musical shows, such as the ballets A Boston Cinderella! and Ma Goose...
, Composer and Conductor - Karen HolvikKaren HolvikKaren Holvik is a classical soprano. She is the daughter of Karl Holvik , clarinetist and conductor, who was Professor of Music at the University of Northern Iowa between 1947 and 1984, and Martha Holvik , violinist, violist, pianist and soprano, who also taught at UNI and founded the UNI Suzuki...
, Soprano - Donald HunsbergerDonald HunsbergerDonald Hunsberger was the conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble from 1965 until 2001. He also held the position of Professor of conducting at Eastman...
, Conductor - Jon HynesJon HynesJon Hynes is an American classical concert pianist.-Biography:A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Hynes is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he studied with Vitaly Margulis and Natalya Antonova. Hynes spent two years at the Paris Conservatory in France before...
, Pianist - Michael IsaacsonMichael IsaacsonMichael Isaacson is an influential composer of Jewish synagogue music, as well as one of the originators of the Jewish Camp Song movement...
, Composer, Music Director of The Israel Pops - Guy JohnstonGuy JohnstonGuy Johnston is a British cellist and the winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year award in 2000. He has subsequently enjoyed a successful international career as a soloist and chamber musician.-Professional life:...
, Cellist (BBC Young Musician of the YearBBC Young Musician of the YearThe BBC Young Musician of the Year is a televised national music competition. It is broadcast on BBC Two and BBC Four biennially, despite the name, and hosted by the British Broadcasting Corporation...
, 2000) - Mark Kellogg, Trombonist
- Chosei KomatsuChosei Komatsuis a Japanese conductor who is currently in his seventh year as Artistic Director of Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Costa Rica. Also, after five seasons as Music Director of Japan’s Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra, he recently assumed the title of Conductor Laureate.Komatsu previously held the...
, Conductor - Gail KubikGail KubikGail Thompson Kubik was an American composer, motion picture scorist, violinist, and teacher. He studied at the Eastman School of Music, the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago with Leo Sowerby, and Harvard University with Walter Piston and Nadia Boulanger...
, Composer - John La MontaineJohn La MontaineJohn La Montaine is an American composer, born in Oak Park, Illinois, who won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Piano Concerto no. 1, Op. 9, "In Time of War" , which was premiered by Jorge Bolet....
, Composer - William P. LathamWilliam P. LathamWilliam Peters Latham was a musical composer born in Shreveport, Louisiana, January 4, 1917. He was educated in Kentucky, Ohio and New York, completing degrees in composition and theory at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Later, he was awarded a Ph.D. in composition at ...
, Composer - Tony LevinTony LevinTony Levin is an American progressive rock musician, specializing in bass guitar, Chapman stick and upright bass ....
, Rock-fusion bassist - David LiptakDavid LiptakDavid Liptak is a composer and music teacher living in Rochester, New York.-Music career:...
, Composer - Joseph LockeJoe LockeJoseph Paul Locke is a US American jazz vibraphonist, composer, recording artist and educator.-Biography:Locke was born in Palo Alto, California, but raised in Rochester, New York...
, Jazz Percussionist - Bob LudwigBob LudwigBob Ludwig is an American mastering engineer.He is a well known and respected figure within the music industry. His name is credited on the covers of albums released across the world, and he has won numerous awards....
, Mastering Engineer
- Eric MandatEric MandatEric Paul Mandat is a composer and performer of contemporary clarinet music.Mandat began his clarinet studies under the tutelage of Richard Joiner of the Denver Symphony. He later studied with Lee Gibson, Keith Wilson, D. Stanley Hasty, and Charles Neidich...
, Clarinetist and composer - Chuck MangioneChuck MangioneCharles Frank "Chuck" Mangione is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1977 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good." Mangione has released more than thirty albums since 1960.-Early life and career:...
, Jazz Musician - Christopher MartinChristopher MartinChristopher Martin was a Pilgrim and signer of the Mayflower Compact.Christopher Martin was born on an unknown date prior to 1582. He married Mary Prower, a widow, in Great Burstead, Essex, England in February 1606 or 1607. Mary Martin was born around 1580, in the vicinity of Great Burstead,...
, Principal Trumpet of the Chicago Symphony - John McKayJohn McKay (pianist)John McKay is an American pianist and music educator of Canadian birth. He has performed in concerts, recitals, and on radio and television broadcasts throughout North America and Europe...
, pianist - Marc MellitsMarc MellitsMarc Mellits is an American composer and musician.Mellits was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied at the Eastman School of Music from 1984 to 1988, the Yale School of Music from 1989 to 1991, Cornell University from 1991 to 1996, and at Tanglewood in the summer of 1997...
, Composer - Mitch MillerMitch MillerMitchell William "Mitch" Miller was an American musician, singer, conductor, record producer, A&R man and record company executive...
, Record Producer - Robert MorrisRobert Morris (composer)Robert Morris is an American composer and music theorist.-Work in music theory:As a music theorist, Morris' work has bridged an important gap between the rigorously academic and the highly experimental. Born in Cheltenham, England in 1943, Morris received his musical education at the Eastman...
, Composer, theorist - Gerry NiewoodGerry NiewoodGerry Niewood was an American jazz saxophonist who worked closely with Chuck Mangione. Like Mangione, Niewood was born in Rochester, New York and graduated from the Eastman School of Music located there....
, Saxophonist - Jim PughJames E. PughJames Edward Pugh is a trombonist, composer, and educator. He is noted as the lead trombonist with Woody Herman's Thundering Herd and Chick Corea's Return to Forever Band . For 25 years, he worked as a freelance trombonist in New York City...
, Trombone Virtuoso - Lance ReddickLance ReddickLance Reddick is an American theater, film and TV actor and musician born in Baltimore, Maryland. He starred in The Wire as Cedric Daniels, appeared in Oz as Detective Johnny Basil and appeared in the fourth and fifth seasons of Lost. He now has a prominent role in Fringe...
, Actor, Cedric Daniels on HBO's The WireThe WIREthe WIRE is the student-run College radio station at the University of Oklahoma, broadcasting in a freeform format. The WIRE serves the University of Oklahoma and surrounding communities, and is staffed by student DJs. The WIRE broadcasts at 1710 kHz AM in Norman, Oklahoma... - Bill Reichenbach Jr., Hollywood Trombonist
- Catherine RodlandCatherine RodlandCatherine R. Rodland is an organist and church musician best known for her recitals throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. She also holds a teaching position at St. Olaf College....
, organist - Laurence RosenthalLaurence RosenthalLaurence Rosenthal is an American composer, arranger, and conductor for theater, television, and films.Born in Detroit, Michigan, Rosenthal attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he studied piano and composition...
, film composer, winner of seven Emmy Awards, nominated for two Academy AwardsAcademy AwardsAn Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers... - Vladimir RosingVladimir RosingVladimir Sergeyevich Rosing , aka Val Rosing, was a Russian-born operatic tenor and stage director who spent most of his professional career in England and the United States...
, opera director, tenor; founded opera department in 1923. - Ralph SauerRalph SauerRalph Sauer is an American trombonist and teacher. He was Principal Trombonist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 32 years.-Biography:Sauer was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated of the Eastman School of Music where he studied with Emory Remington.He was the Principal Trombonist of...
, Principal Trombone, Los Angeles Philharmonic - Mark Davis ScatterdayMark ScatterdayMark Davis Scatterday is an American conductor.On January 28, 2002, after an extensive national search, the Eastman School named Scatterday the fourth conductor of the world-renowned Eastman Wind Ensemble, succeeding his former teacher, Donald Hunsberger, who had conducted the ensemble for 37...
, Conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble - Maria SchneiderMaria Schneider (musician)Maria Schneider is an American arranger, composer, and big-band leader who has won multiple awards. In 2005, her album Concert in the Garden won a Grammy for "Best Large Ensemble Album"...
, Grammy Winning composer and big band leader - John Serry, Jr., Jazz Pianist & Composer
- Christian SindingChristian SindingChristian August Sinding was a Norwegian composer.-Personal life:He was born in Kongsberg as a son of mine superindendent Matthias Wilhelm Sinding and Cecilie Marie Mejdell . He was a brother of the painter Otto Sinding and the sculptor Stephan Sinding...
, Norwegian composer and teacher at Eastman - Fenwick SmithFenwick SmithFenwick Smith is an American flautist. He studied under Joseph Mariano at the Eastman School of Music, graduating from there in 1972. Shortly thereafter he became a member of the New England Woodwind Quintet and began a thirteen year membership with Boston Musica Viva...
, flutist - SNMNMNMSNMNMNMSNMNMNM is a band that formed in Rochester, New York, USA. The group's name is a condensation of "Seamus 'n Matt 'n Mark 'n Matt". While completing music degrees at the Eastman School of Music, the band members got together to play outside of their studies in an alternative music band, performing...
, indie rock band - Lew SoloffLew SoloffLew Soloff is a jazz trumpeter, composer and actor. He studied trumpet at the Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School. He is likely best known for his work with Blood, Sweat & Tears from 1968 to 1973...
, Trumpet, Composer, actor 1970 Grammy Award for Album of the YearGrammy Award for Album of the YearThe Grammy Award for Album of the Year is the most prestigious award category at the Grammys. It has been awarded since 1959 and though it was originally presented to the artist alone, the award is now presented to the artist, the producer, the engineer and/or mixer and the mastering engineer...
with Blood, Sweat & TearsBlood, Sweat & Tears (album)Blood, Sweat & Tears is the second album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in 1968. It was a huge commercial success, rising to the top of the U.S. charts for a collective seven weeks and yielding three successive Top 5 singles... - Leigh Howard StevensLeigh Howard StevensLeigh Howard Stevens is a marimba artist best known for developing, codifying, and promoting the Stevens technique or Musser-Stevens grip, a method of independent four-mallet marimba performance based on the Musser grip...
, Marimba Soloist - Eileen StrempelEileen StrempelEileen Strempel is an operatic soprano and academic from Syracuse, New York.-Background:In 1984, Strempel began her undergraduate education at the Eastman School of Music and received her bachelor's degree in 1984. In 1991, she studied on full scholarship at Indiana University for her master's degree...
, Soprano and Professor at Syracuse UniversitySyracuse UniversitySyracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College... - Charles StrouseCharles StrouseCharles Strouse is an American composer and lyricist.-Life and career:Strouse was born and raised in New York City, the son of Ira and Ethel Strouse...
, Composer - Christopher Theofanidis, Composer
- Michael TorkeMichael TorkeMichael Torke is an American composer who writes music influenced by jazz and minimalism. Sometimes described as a post-minimalist, his most postminimal piece is Four Proverbs, in which the syllable for each pitch is fixed and variations in the melody produce streams of nonsense words. Other works...
, Composer - Jeff TyzikJeff TyzikJeff Tyzik is an American conductor, arranger, and trumpeter from Rochester, New York, working primarily with orchestral and jazz styles.-Education:Tyzik, born in Hyde Park, New York, started playing cornet at age 9...
, Composer and Principal Pops Conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic - Michael Walsh, Music Critic, Novelist, Screenwriter
- George WalkerGeorge Walker (composer)George Theophilus Walker is an African-American composer, the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He received the Pulitzer for his work Lilacs in 1996....
, Composer - Leehom Wang, American singer-songwriter, record producer
- Robert Ward, Opera Composer
- William WarfieldWilliam WarfieldWilliam Caesar Warfield , was an American concert bass-baritone singer and actor.-Early life and career:Warfield was born in West Helena, Arkansas and grew up in Rochester, New York, where his father was called to serve as pastor of Mt. Vernon Church. He gave his recital debut in New York's Town...
, Baritone - Claire WatsonClaire WatsonClaire Watson was an American soprano, particularly associated with Mozart and Richard Strauss roles....
, Soprano - Pieter WispelweyPieter WispelweyPieter Wispelwey is a Dutch cellist. In 1992 he was the first cellist to receive the Netherlands Music Prize, given to the most promising young musician in the Netherlands. He has come to be regarded as one of the world's leading cello soloists.Pieter Wispelwey was born in Haarlem and grew up in...
, Cellist - Alec WilderAlec WilderAlec Wilder was an American composer.-Biography:...
, Composer - Clifton WilliamsClifton Williams (composer)James Clifton Williams Jr. was born in Traskwood, Arkansas, United States. He began playing French horn, piano, and mellophone early on and played in the band at Little Rock High School...
, Composer - Dana WilsonDana WilsonDana Richard Wilson is an American composer, jazz pianist, and teacher. Wilson currently resides in Ithaca, New York.Wilson's music has been commissioned and performed by such ensembles as the Chicago Chamber Musicians, Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, Buffalo Philharmonic, Memphis Symphony,...
, Composer - Todd Wilson, Organist
- John WyreJohn WyreJohn Harvey Wyre was a U.S.-born Canadian percussionist, composer, and music educator. He worked as percussionist with a number of important orchestras in North America, notably serving for many years as the principal timpanist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
, Composer and Percussionist - Allen VizzuttiAllen VizzuttiAllen Vizzutti is an American trumpeter, composer and music educator.Allen Vizzutti very recently recorded his first solo jazz album in some time. "Ritzville" which will be available November 1st, as announced by Vizzutti himself...
, Trumpeter, Composer