Featured Work

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Featured Writing

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra 2025–26 BRAVO Program Notes

Kate Sheeran Appointed Eastman’s Eighth DeanEastman NOTES

Howard Hanson Recital Hall: A Multipurpose Space for the Twenty-First CenturyEastman NOTES

Connecticut Symphony Season Preview 2018-19CT Post

Russell Jones, Stamford Symphony leader, finds ways to bring the community closerCT Post

Mindful play on expression (Jeremy Denk interview) – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

RPO pulls off musical excellence on the flyRochester Democrat and Chronicle

Star power (Joshua Bell interview)Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Honoring a master (Ron Carter interview) – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Extreme Movement (Elizabeth Streb profile) – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Streb delivers on bold experiment (Streb review)

Unusual night of jazz hits the right creative nerve (JLCO review) – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Harmonious Halls – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Recent Articles

“Making Music Together Can Help with Mental Health, Especially for Older Adults,” USA TODAY, Sunday, September 21, 2025. [Print Only]

“Art Therapy is an option when words are not enough,” USA TODAY, Sunday, September 21, 2025. [Print Only]

Transforming Communities Through MusicEasmtan NOTES

Saving Small Hands: Adaptive Keyboards Pave the Way – Eastman News

Eastman Opera Theatre to Present First College Performance of New Opera Following World Premiere – Eastman News

New Director Alexander Liang Explores Black American Culture in the Gateways Music Festival’s Upcoming Season – Eastman News

Joshua Conyers’s Faculty Artist Series Recital Reflects His Journey as a Black Artist – Eastman News

Eastman Hosted a Free Camp and Pilot Study on Music Technology Supported by a Major National Science Foundation Grant – Eastman News

Celebrating the Eastman School of Music’s Seventh Dean: Jamal J. Rossi – Eastman NOTES

Vocal Quartet säje Performs at Eastman Following GRAMMY Win – Eastman News

“Encounters with the Schumanns” Merges Musical Scholarship with Performance – Eastman News

Celebrating Robert Morris’s Retirement in a Joint Faculty Artist Series Recital – Eastman News

Program Note Examples

Aaron Copland Clarinet Concerto

György Ligeti Lontano

Mark-Anthony Turnage Texan Tenebrae

Lowell Liebermann Piano Concerto No. 2

Scholarly Work

Michael Boerner, Matt Brounley, Felipe Ledesma-Núñez, Judy Lochhead, Anna Reguero, Hayley Roud & Laura Smith (2014), “A Theory of Musical Analysis: On Segmentation and Associative Organization,” Musicology Australia, 36:1, 130-147.

Foreword to “Looking Within: The Music of John Palmer”