Academics & Publications
The Eastman School of Music places an emphasis on solid academic work as well as excellence in performance. From special organ-related 590 courses to the intense four-semester Organ Literature course required of all master's degree students, organ students at Eastman gain a solid background in history, construction, performance practice, and technique. Below you will find academic information and samples of student work in addition to Resonance, the biannual department newsletter written by both faculty and students.
- Audition requirements [organ specification as pdf]
- Curricula [pdf]
- Organ Repertoire I: The organ to the mid-seventeenth century
- Organ Repertoire II: France, Germany, and the Netherlands to the mid-eighteenth century
- Organ Repertoire III: The Enlightenment to the end of the Romantic Era in Germany, France, and America
- Organ Repertoire IV: The Twentieth Century in Europe and North America
- Papers and dissertations [pdf] - forthcoming
- Organ stoplists [pdf] with thanks to Jon Ortloff, Rob Kerner, William Porter, Nicole Marane, and Lee Wright
- Craighead-Saunders Organ
Christ Church Episcopal - Van Daalen 1979, rebuilt by Dobson in 2000
Schmitt Organ Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music - Italian Baroque Organ, c. 1770 [brief listing]
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester - E.M. Skinner, Opus 325, 1922 (under restoration)
Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music - Aeolian-Skinner, Opus 953, 1937 (restoration planned)
Strong Auditorium, University of Rochester - Brombaugh, Opus 9
St. Michael's Church - Bozeman-Gibson, Opus 24, 1984
Austin Organ Company, Opus 2215, 1956
Asbury United Methodist Church - Hook and Hastings, Opus 1697, 1898
Paul Fritts and Company, Opus 7, 1989
Christ Church Episcopal - C.B. Fisk, Opus 83, 1983
Downtown United Presbyterian Church - Samuel Bohler, 1869
Holtkamp Organ Company, 1962
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word
- Craighead-Saunders Organ
- Sweden Study Tour 2003
Resonance, the biannual department newsletter [pdf]
News from the department and proceedings of the annual EROI Festival.
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Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI) Festivals
The department's largest event of the year, each festival celebrates important aspects of this 10-year initiative to make Rochester a global center for organ performance, research, building, and preservation through the assembly of a collection of new and historic organs unparalleled in North America.- EROI Festival 2009: Mendelssohn and the Contrapuntal Tradition (October 29 - November 1)
- EROI Festival 2008: Inauguration of the Craighead-Saunders Organ
- EROI Festival 2007: New Dimensions in Organ Documentation and Conservation
- EROI Festival 2006: Aspects of Organ Building in the Twentieth Century - Featuring the work of Ernest M. Skinner and John Brombaugh
- EROI Festival 2005: Inaugural Festival for the Italian Baroque Organ
- EROI Festival 2004: A Global Organ Project for the 21st Century / Westfield Center Pedal Clavichord Symposium
- Westfield Symposium [pdf]: The Organ and the Pedal Clavichord - a case study in performance and pedagogy
- EROI Festival 2003 [pdf]: American Organ Building in the Twentieth Century