Calendar of Events

Instrumental Performance

Meet Our Faculty

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

Faculty

Harp

Program Head

Percussion

Program Heads

Piano

Program Head

Faculty

  • Paul Boyd

    Paul Boyd

    Director of the Conservatory of Music
    Professor of Music, Piano

    DMA, Music Education, University of Houston Moores School of Music
    MM, Piano Performance, University of Houston 

  • 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

  • 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

Program Head

  • Caleb Van der Swaagh

    Caleb van der Swaagh

    Lecturer of Music, Cello (Part-time)
    Head of Strings
    • 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

Faculty

Woodwinds

Program Head

Faculty

  • Alexander Davis, bassoon

    Alexander Davis

    Lecturer of Music, Bassoon (Part-time)
    • BM, SUNY Fredonia
    • MM, Stony Brook University 
    • Performers Certificate, Manhattan School of Music
    • PhD candidate, Stony Brook University 
    alexander.davis@purchase.edu
  • Isabel Gleicher

    Isabel Lepanto Gleicher

    Lecturer of Music, Flute (Part-time)

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

  • Kemp Jernigan

    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 Emeriti

  • 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

  • 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 Kadlek

    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

    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

  • 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, Piano

    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