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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


Brass

Program Head

Faculty


Classical Guitar

Program Head


Ensembles

Faculty

  • Mina Kim

    Mina Kim

    Visiting 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
  • David Recca

    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

 


Strings

Faculty


Woodwinds

Faculty


Program: Composition (Classical)

Faculty


Voice and Opera Studies

Program Head

Faculty


Jazz Studies

Program Head

Faculty


Studio Composition

Program Head

Faculty


Studio Production

Faculty


Music History, Theory, Solfège, and Keyboard Studies


Faculty Emeriti

  • Allyson Bellink  

    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  

    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  

    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  

    Hal Galper

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

    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  

    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  

    Humbert Lucarelli

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

    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  

    Sandra Miller

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

    Doug Munro

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

    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
  • David F. Ostwald  

    David F. Ostwald

    Assistant Professor Emeritus of Music
    • BA, Reed College
    • MFA, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
  • 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 
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    Daphne Spottiswoode

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