Main content

Faculty

Classical: Brass | Classical Guitar | Ensembles | Percussion | Piano | Strings | Woodwinds | Composition (Classical) | Voice and Opera Studies

Jazz: Jazz Studies

Music and Technology: Studio Composition | Studio Production

Academic Studies: Music History, Theory, Solfège, and Keyboard Studies

Faculty Emeriti


Classical

Department Chair

  • Mina Kim, Chair of Classical Instrumental Studies and Director of Purchase Symphony Orchestra

    Mina Kim

    Assistant Professor
    Orchestra Director
    • BM, Busan National University
    • MM, Artist Diploma, Purchase College, SUNY
    • Professional Studies Diploma, Mannes College, The New School for Music
    mina.kim@purchase.edu

 Brass

Program Head

Faculty


 Classical Guitar

Program Head


 Ensembles

Faculty

  • David Recca

    Lecturer (Part-time)
    Chorus Director
    • MusB, Performers Certificate, Purchase College, SUNY
    • MM, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
    • MMA, Yale University
    • DMA, Yale University
    david.recca@purchase.edu

 Percussion

Program Head


 Piano

Program Head

Faculty

  • Stephen Buck, Pianist and Visiting Assistant Professor

    Stephen Buck

    Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
    Head of Music History, Theory, Solfège, and Keyboard Studies
    • BA, Johns Hopkins University
    • MM, University of Michigan
    • MMA, DMA, Yale University
    stephen.buck@purchase.edu
  • Pianist Vanessa Perez

    Vanessa Perez

    Lecturer of Music, Piano (Part-time)

    Yale University - Performance certificate 
     Imola, Italy Accademia Pianistica Incontri Col Maestro
     Royal Academy of Music, London, England. LRAM Teaching license, Professional Certificate with Honors

    vanessa-m.perez@purchase.edu
  • Jennifer Undercofler

    Associate Professor of Practice in Music
    • BM, MM, The Juilliard School
    • DMA, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
    jennifer.undercofler@purchase.edu

 


 Strings

Faculty


 Woodwinds

Program Head

Faculty


 Program: Composition (Classical)

Program Head

Faculty

  • Gregory Spears

    Gregory Spears

    Lecturer of Music (Part-time)
    Interim Head of Classical Composition
    • BM, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
    • MM, Yale University
    • PhD, Princeton University
    gregory.spears@purchase.edu

 Voice and Opera Studies

Program Head

Faculty


 Jazz Studies

Faculty


 Studio Composition

Program Head

Faculty


 Studio Production

Program Head

Faculty


 Music History, Theory, Solfège, and Keyboard Studies

Program Head

  • Stephen Buck, Pianist and Visiting Assistant Professor

    Stephen Buck

    Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
    Head of Music History, Theory, Solfège, and Keyboard Studies
    • BA, Johns Hopkins University
    • MM, University of Michigan
    • MMA, DMA, Yale University
    stephen.buck@purchase.edu

Faculty


 Faculty Emeriti

  • Allyson Bellink

    Associate Professor Emerita of Music
    • BM, Manhattan School of Music
    • MM, Purchase College, SUNY
    allyson.bellink@purchase.edu
  • Todd Coolman Headshot Photo by John Abbott

    Todd Coolman

    Professor Emeritus of Music, Acoustic Bass
    • BM, Indiana University
    • MM, Manhattan School of Music
    • PhD, New York University
    • Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
    • SUNY Research Foundation Award Honoring Research and Scholarship in the Arts, 2006
  • Raymond Des Roches

    Raymond Des Roches

    Associate Professor Emeritus of Music
    • BM, MM, Manhattan School of Music
  • Dominic Donato

    Assistant Professor Emeritus of Music
    • BA, MM, Stony Brook University, SUNY
    • DMA, Manhattan School of Music
  • Joe Ferry

    Joe Ferry

    Professor Emeritus of Music
    • BS, Long Island University
    • MFA, Purchase College, SUNY
    • PhD, Kennedy-Western University
    • Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
    joseph.ferry@purchase.edu
  • Robert Fertitta

    Associate Professor Emeritus of Music
    • BA, Hunter College, City University of New York
    • MA, Queens College, City University of New York
    • Studied with Nadia Boulanger at L’Écoles d’Art Americaines de Fontainebleau
  • Hal Galper

    Lecturer Emeritus in Music, Piano
    • Diploma, Berklee College of Music
  • Frederic Hand

    Lecturer Emeritus in Music
    • BM, Mannes College of Music
    • Guitar studies with Leonid Bolotine, Julian Bream, Albert Valdes-Blain, and Jim Hall
  • Dennis Helmrich

    Dennis Helmrich

    Assistant Professor Emeritus of Music
    • BM, MM, Yale University
  • Marianna Khazanova-Salzman

    Associate Professor Emerita of Music
    • Diploma, Moscow State Conservatory of Music
    • MPP, Gnesin Musical and Pedagogical Institute (Moscow)
  • Julia Lichten

    Julia Lichten

    Associate Professor Emerita of Music, Cello
    • BA, Harvard University
    • MM, New England Conservatory
    julia.lichten@purchase.edu
  • Steven Lubin

    Steven Lubin

    Professor Emeritus of Music
    • BA, Harvard University
    • MM, The Julliard School
    • PhD, New York University
  • Humbert Lucarelli

    Assistant Professor Emeritus of Music
    • BM, Chicago Musical College, Roosevelt University
  • Donald MacCourt

    Professor Emeritus of Music
    • BA, San Francisco State College
    • MM, Manhattan School of Music
  • James McElwaine

    James McElwaine

    Professor Emeritus of Music
    • BM, University of North Texas
    • MM, Yale University
    • Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service
  • Sandra Miller

    Professor Emerita of Music
    • BM, Curtis Institute of Music
  • Doug Munro

    Professor Emeritus of Music, Guitar
    • BS, Westchester Conservatory/Mercy College
    • BSEd, SUNY Cortland
    • MFA, Purchase College, SUNY
  • Anthony Newman

    Professor Emeritus of Music
    • Diplome Superieure, l’Ecole Normale de Musique (Paris)
    • BS, Mannes College of Music
    • MA, Harvard University
    • DMA, Boston University
  • Paul Ostrovsky, Piano

    Paul Ostrovsky

    Professor Emeritus of Music, Piano
    • MM, Moscow State Conservatory of Music
    paul.ostrovsky@purchase.edu
  • David F. Ostwald

    David F. Ostwald

    Assistant Professor Emeritus of Music
    • BA, Reed College
    • MFA, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Tara Helen O’Connor

    Associate Professor Emerita of Music, Flute
    • BA, MM, DMA, Stony Brook University, SUNY
    tara.oconnor@purchase.edu
  • Ted Piltzecker

    Ted Piltzecker

    Associate Professor Emeritus of Music
    • BM, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
    • MM, Manhattan School of Music
    ted.piltzecker@purchase.edu
  • Daphne Spottiswoode

    Associate Professor Emerita of Music
    • Scholarship studies, Royal Academy of Music (England)