Meet Our Faculty

Department Chair

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

Strings

Faculty

Timothy Cobb

Associate Professor of Music (Part-time), Bass
- BM, Curtis Institute of Music
timothy.cobb@purchase.edu
Beatriz Martin-Ruiz

Lecturer of Music (Part-time), Harp
- BM, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Performance Diploma and Artist Diploma, Real Conservatorio Superior de Musica, Madrid (Spain)
beatriz.martin-ruiz@purchase.edu
Caleb van der Swaagh

Lecturer of Music, Cello (Part-time)
- BA, Columbia University, The Julliard School joint program
- MM, The New England Conservatory of Music
- Professional Studies Certificate, Manhattan School of Music
caleb.vanderswaagh@purchase.edu

Piano

Program Head

Stephanie Brown

Associate Professor of Music, Piano

Program Head, Piano
- BM, The Juilliard School
stephanie.brown@purchase.edu

Faculty

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
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

Brass

Program Head

Graham Ashton

Professor of Music, Trumpet

Co-Program Head
- Performance Diploma, Royal Academy of Music (England)
graham.ashton@purchase.edu

Faculty

Adolfo Monterroso

Lecturer, Tuba (Part-time)

BM, Purchase College, SUNY
MM, The Juilliard School

Percussion

Program Head

Christopher Graham

Lecturer, Percussion (Part-time)

Co-Program Head
- BM, Purchase College, SUNY
- MM, Stony Brook University
- DMA, Stony Brook University
christopher.graham@purchase.edu
Russell Greenberg

Lecturer, Percussion (Part-time)

Co-Program Head
- BA, University of California Berkeley
- MM, SUNY Stony Brook
- DMA, SUNY Stony Brook
russell.greenberg@purchase.edu

Woodwinds

Program Head

Kemp Jernigan

Lecturer (Part-time), Oboe
- BM, The Hartt School at The University of Hartford
- Performer’s Certificate, Purchase College, SUNY
- MM, Yale University
kemp.jernigan@purchase.edu

Faculty

Isabel Lepanto Gleicher

Lecturer of Classical Music (Part-time)

BM, Purchase College, SUN
MM, Yale University
MM, Manhattan School of Music
Ayako Oshima Neidich

Assistant Professor of Music (Part-time), Clarinet
- BM, Toho School of Music (Tokyo)
- additional studies, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
ayako.oshima@purchase.edu

Classical Guitar

Program Head

Oren Fader

Lecturer (Part-time), Guitar
- MusB, Purchase College, SUNY
- MM, Florida State University
oren.fader@purchase.edu

Ensembles

Faculty Emeriti

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
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
Frederic Hand
Lecturer Emeritus in Music
- BM, Mannes College of Music
- Guitar studies with Leonid Bolotine, Julian Bream, Albert Valdes-Blain, and Jim Hall
Anthony Kadleck
Lecturer Emeritus of Classical Music, Trumpet
- BM, Manhattan School of Music
anthony.kadleck@purchase.edu
Marianna Khazanova-Salzman
Associate Professor Emerita of Music
- Diploma, Moscow State Conservatory of Music
- MPP, Gnesin Musical and Pedagogical Institute (Moscow)
Julia Lichten
Associate Professor Emerita of Music, Cello
- BA, Harvard University
- MM, New England Conservatory
julia.lichten@purchase.edu
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
Sandra Miller
Professor Emerita of Music
- BM, Curtis Institute of Music
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
Professor Emeritus of Music, Piano
- MM, Moscow State Conservatory of Music
paul.ostrovsky@purchase.edu
Tara Helen O’Connor
Associate Professor Emerita of Music, Flute
- BA, MM, DMA, Stony Brook University, SUNY
tara.oconnor@purchase.edu
Peter Reit
Lecturer Emeritus of Music, French Horn
BM, Manhattan School of Music
peter.reit@purchase.edu
Daphne Spottiswoode
Associate Professor Emerita of Music
- Scholarship studies, Royal Academy of Music (England)
Carmit Rinehart Zori
Assistant Professor Emeritus of Music, Violin
- BM, Curtis Institute of Music
carmit.rinehart@purchase.edu