Guest Artist Masterclass: Jesse Eschbach

Name: Guest Artist Masterclass: Jesse Eschbach
Start: 2024-10-12T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-10-12T12:00:00-05:00
Location: St. Philip Presbyterian Church

Schedule

Sat Oct 12 2024 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

St. Philip Presbyterian Church | Houston, TX

Jesse Eschbach is the past chair of the division of keyboard studies for the College of Music and has served as a faculty member since 1986. Eschbach holds a doctorate of musical arts degree from the University of Michigan where he was a student of Robert Glasgow. His bachelor’s and master’s degrees are from Indiana University where he was a student of Oswald Ragatz. Eschbach studied early French music and the works of Jehan Alain in the class of Marie-Claire Alain at the Conservatoire de Rueil-Malmaison. During this time, he was awarded the Prix d’Excellence and the Prix de Virtuosité by unanimous jury. Upon completion of his doctorate, he returned to France to accept the post of organist and choirmaster at St. Michael’s English Church in Paris. While there, he studied organ with Marie-Madeleine Duruflé and piano with Christiane Devos.
He has appeared as a recitalist and lecturer throughout Europe and the United States. His recording of Franck and Guilmant was released on the Centaur label. With the organ builder Gene Bedient, he co-founded and directed the Summer Institute for French Organ Studies for a twenty-year period.
Formerly under management with Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, focal dystonia in the right hand destroyed a promising concert career. Since that diagnosis, Eschbach has focused on pedagogy and research. In 2003, his book detailing the original stop lists of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll was published by the Peter Ewers Verlag in Germany and has become a fundamental source for French symphonic organ research.
Eschbach maintains the largest class of organ performance majors in Texas and beyond. His students often dominate the Bill Hall Organ Competition in San Antonio, Texas. As an exponent of historical keyboard practices, Eschbach embraces the best of traditional American pedagogy coupled with lively pursuits of information and practices that enliven all periods and national styles.