Faculty Biography

Kevin Nitsch, Lecturer


Contact:
(585) 389-2700
knitsch@rochester.rr.com


Departmental Responsibilities:
Applied Piano
Music Theory
Aural Skills
Collaborative Pianist


Education:
Eastman School of Music, DMA
Eastman School of Music, MM
University of Missouri-Kansas City, BM


Biography:
Kevin Nitsch works as a teacher, performer, collaborator, director, composer, and arranger in the Rochester, NY area. Kevin has presented Sunday Musicales at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY and a program for WBFO radio in Buffalo, NY. Kevin has studied piano with Richard Cass, Jeffrey Kahane, Natalya Antonova, and Rebecca Penneys. Kevin conducted a research project at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Brussels, Belgium. The project investigated the performance barriers that piano students face and how the teachers help their students to overcome them. He has worked with Ray Gottlieb, who's Attention and Memory Training and Flow State Learning techniques provide a unique and efficient approach to playing and teaching the piano. Kevin has published a collection of piano solo arrangements of Advent hymns and released a CD with Ruth Fleischmann, contralto. Kevin is the organist and choir director at the Baptist Temple Church in Rochester, NY.