Meet Our Faculty
Program Head
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Jacque Trussel
Professor of Music- BS, MM, Ball State University
jacque.trussel@purchase.edu- SUNY Research Foundation Award Honoring Research and Scholarship in the Arts, 2007
Faculty
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Thomas Baird
Lecturer of Dance; Lecturer of Music (Part-time)thomas.baird@purchase.edu- BA, Empire State College, SUNY
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Bonnie Hamilton
Assistant Professor of Music (Part-time)bonnie.hamilton@purchase.edu- BA, Florida State University
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Hugh Murphy
Associate Professor of Musichugh.murphy@purchase.edu- BM, MM, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Johns Hopkins University
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Sherry Overholt
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music (Part-time)sherry.overholt@purchase.edu- BM, University of Miami
- MM, MMA, DMA, Yale University
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David Recca
Lecturer (Part-time)Chorus Directordavid.recca@purchase.edu- MusB, Performers Certificate, Purchase College, SUNY
- MM, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
- MMA, Yale University
- DMA, Yale University
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Kaori Sato
Assistant Professor of Music (Part-time)kaori.sato@purchase.edu- BM, Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University (Japan)
- MM, Mannes College of Music
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Faculty Emeriti


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, Flutetara.oconnor@purchase.edu- BA, MM, DMA, Stony Brook University, SUNY