Faculty Biography
James Bobb, Lecturer
Contact:
(585) 389-2700
JamesEBobb@aol.com
Departmental Responsibilities:
Applied Organ
Education:
Performer's Certificate, Eastman School of Music
Eastman School of Music, MM
Capitol University, Columbus, BM
Biography:
James E. Bobb is Director of Music at the Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word in Rochester, New York, a post he has held since 1994. He is organist and director of choirs for children, teens, and adults, and directs Second Sundays . . . Plus, the church's music series. At Incarnate Word, he has conducted the St. John Passion and numerous church works of Bach, Buxtehude, Schütz, Gabrieli, Purcell, Telemann and others, and has led the choir on a tour of Sweden.
Mr. Bobb has recently been named music director for the Rochester Bach Festival Chorus. At the harpsichord, he has performed Bach's Goldberg Variations in Manhattan, Rochester, Boston, and Baltimore. He has appeared as organ and harpsichord soloist, conductor, and continuo player with The Publick Musick and Rochester Bach Festival. With the Publick Musick Bobb has appeared in New York, Indiana, Maine, and Germany, and has recorded music of Telemann and Vivaldi. Other recording credits include music of American composers Leo Sowerby and Roy Harris with the Roberts Wesleyan Chorale.
Mr. Bobb is Adjunct Professor of Organ at Nazareth College and Instructor in Sacred Music at the Eastman School of Music (hymn playing and hymn improvisation), both in Rochester, New York. He is a past dean of the Rochester Chapter American Guild of Organists. Bobb enjoys a growing reputation as an inspiring hymn player and leader of hymn festivals.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Piano and Organ Performance from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio and a Master's degree in Organ Performance and Literature, and Performer's Certificates in organ and harpsichord from the Eastman School of Music where his teachers were Russell Saunders and David Craighead in organ, and Arthur Haas in harpsichord.
Contact:
(585) 389-2700
JamesEBobb@aol.com
Departmental Responsibilities:
Applied Organ
Education:
Performer's Certificate, Eastman School of Music
Eastman School of Music, MM
Capitol University, Columbus, BM
Biography:
James E. Bobb is Director of Music at the Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word in Rochester, New York, a post he has held since 1994. He is organist and director of choirs for children, teens, and adults, and directs Second Sundays . . . Plus, the church's music series. At Incarnate Word, he has conducted the St. John Passion and numerous church works of Bach, Buxtehude, Schütz, Gabrieli, Purcell, Telemann and others, and has led the choir on a tour of Sweden.
Mr. Bobb has recently been named music director for the Rochester Bach Festival Chorus. At the harpsichord, he has performed Bach's Goldberg Variations in Manhattan, Rochester, Boston, and Baltimore. He has appeared as organ and harpsichord soloist, conductor, and continuo player with The Publick Musick and Rochester Bach Festival. With the Publick Musick Bobb has appeared in New York, Indiana, Maine, and Germany, and has recorded music of Telemann and Vivaldi. Other recording credits include music of American composers Leo Sowerby and Roy Harris with the Roberts Wesleyan Chorale.
Mr. Bobb is Adjunct Professor of Organ at Nazareth College and Instructor in Sacred Music at the Eastman School of Music (hymn playing and hymn improvisation), both in Rochester, New York. He is a past dean of the Rochester Chapter American Guild of Organists. Bobb enjoys a growing reputation as an inspiring hymn player and leader of hymn festivals.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Piano and Organ Performance from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio and a Master's degree in Organ Performance and Literature, and Performer's Certificates in organ and harpsichord from the Eastman School of Music where his teachers were Russell Saunders and David Craighead in organ, and Arthur Haas in harpsichord.
Nazareth College
4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618
