Profile
Bruce Frank received his BM in Organ Performance and Music Theory from Oberlin College (1993), an MM in Organ Performance from the Eastman School of Music (1996), and also an MA in Music Theory Pedagogy and a DMA in Organ Performance and Literature from Eastman (2006). He taught as a full-time non-tenure track Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School from 2006-2008. Since 2008, he has served as a full-time lecturer in the University of Rochester’s Music Department, and as a part-time Instructor of Music Theory at Eastman Prior teaching assignments include SUNY Geneseo (fall 1999), New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts (2000-2005), and Instructor at Loyola University (2001-05).
While at Eastman, he received the 1995 Teaching Assistant Prize for Excellence in Teaching, awarded within the Eastman School of Music for demonstrating exemplary instruction at the classroom level by a graduate Teaching Assistant. That same year, he also received the University of Rochester’s Edward Peck Curtis Award in recognition of his exemplary instruction as a graduate Teaching Assistant.
Bruce Frank has performed with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra as a keyboardist, with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and New Orleans Opera Association, and as a keyboard player at various special musical events in the greater New Orleans area. He also appeared in the PBS American Experience production, George Eastman: The Wizard of Photography, as a performer on the Minnesota Public Radio series Pipedreams, and has given recitals at Oberlin and Interlochen, along with Rochester and Boston. Frank has served as organist of the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsford, New York, since 2010, and has held positions at other churches in the Rochester area, in New Orleans, and in Bay Village, Ohio.
Alice Meyer is a member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Clarinet Section and also performs with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Syracuse Symphoria. She performs frequently throughout the Rochester area and has performed with colleague Michael Landrum at the American Music Theatre in Lancaster, PA. She has been a member of the woodwind faculty at the Csehy Summer School of Music since 2003.
Alice Meyer has taught at Roberts Wesleyan University since 1985. She earned her Master of Music Degree in Pedagogy of Music Theory, Bachelor of Music Degree in Applied Music, and the prestigious Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Her teachers include D. Stanley Hasty, Daniel Johnston, and Richard Joiner.
Courses Taught
- MUSC 1002 Applied Organ