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Cambridge organ scholar earns her second doctorate at the Eastman School of Music.<\/h2>\n
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Early music scholar Naomi Gregory graduates this spring with a second doctoral degree from the Eastman School of Music. “You can call me Doctor, Doctor Gregory,” she jokes. (Courtesy of Naomi Gregory)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cYou can call me Doctor, Doctor Gregory,\u201d teases Naomi Gregory \u201914E (DMA) \u201920E (PhD), who last fall completed a second doctorate in musicology at the Eastman School of Music<\/a> at the Ä¢¹½´«Ã½<\/a>. She will join fellow doctoral degree recipients during this spring\u2019s commencement ceremonies.<\/p>\n

The Manchester, England, native has made herself at home in Rochester\u2019s early music community.<\/p>\n

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An organist and harpsichordist, Gregory works with period ensembles, including Pegasus Early Music<\/a> and Publick Musik<\/a>. A prolific performer, she has been a singer at Christ Church Schola Cantorum and is a music director for the First Baptist Church of Penfield. Gregory also spent six years curating programming for Eastman\u2019s historic Italian Baroque organ at the Memorial Art Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The road to Rochester began in Calgary, Canada, when the organ scholar from the University of Cambridge<\/a> first met David Higgs, head of Eastman\u2019s organ department, who explained the opportunities for further study in organ performance and musicology at a high level.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe chance to do this together is unique, and that\u2019s what brought me to the United States and Rochester,\u201d she says.
\nMusic runs deep in Gregory\u2019s family. She recalls the swing band her dad ran in his retirement. Her mother played the bass guitar, her brother played the saxophone, and she played the piano.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not your average picture of an early music person, but when you play jazz piano in a jazz band, you\u2019re doing something quite similar to what I do as a continuo player,\u201d says Gregory. \u201cYou have minimally specified notation, and in that moment you\u2019re creating an improvised accompaniment with the other musicians.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a lecturer in the Arthur Satz Department of Music<\/a>, she teaches music history survey courses, practical musicianship, and a beginner theory class for students arriving with no prior study of music. \u201cI enjoy the breadth of teaching I do,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Her dissertation, \u201cRethinking and Contextualizing the \u2018French Court Motet\u2019: Five and Six-Voice Motets during the Reign of Louis XII,\u201d grew out of a seminar she took at Eastman with Patrick Macey, professor emeritus of musicology. Investigations into the repertoire are not typical, and the more that Gregory performed and studied the cultural output of the French courts, the more she wanted to make the connections.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes quite a lot of sense to me that this is what I ended up with now. I\u2019m glad\u2014it\u2019s been a unique experience,\u201d says Gregory. \u201cThe opportunity to live in another country and to study in the inspiring community at Eastman has been exceptional.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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