Title:
Adjunct Professor, Music Appreciation

E-mail: gregory.c.ristow@lonestar.edu

Professional:
Gregory Ristow is a doctoral student in choral conducting at the Eastman School of Music, in Rochester NY, where he teaches classes in Dalcroze Eurhythmics and conducting.  He is director of the RIT Singers at the Rochester Institute of Technology and serves on the choral faculty at the Interlochen Arts Camp in Interlochen, Michigan where he directs the Interlochen High School Singers.

From 2004-2009, prior to beginning his doctoral studies, Ristow was Professor of Music and Director of Choirs at Lone Star College-Montgomery.  There he helped build the music department from one full-time faculty to three, from five music majors to forty, and from only two classrooms to the new music building now in construction.  He twice served as department chair (2004-5, 2009), and was awarded the Faculty Excellence Award (2008).  In addition to directing the choirs at LSC-Montgomery, he taught Music Theory, Ear Training, Music Appreciation, Music Fundamentals and Music Literature.

Ristow served on the theory faculty of the Eastman School of Music from 2003-2004, teaching six sections of Aural Skills each semester.  He has regularly directed the Eastman Summer Dalcroze Institute and taught movement classes for the Eastman Summer Choral Conducting Institute since 2004.

He has sung professionally with the Houston Chamber Choir and Houston’s Mercury Baroque, and conducted professionally with Houston’s Foundation for Modern Music and Rochester’s Gregory Kunde Chorale.  He is active frequently as a collaborative pianist.

Recent articles:

Musical Mind: Online Ear Training

Fundamentals of Music Theory, Online. (With Scott Perkins) Designed and programmed website to teach the fundamentals of music theory online.

An Introduction to the Solfege Pedagogy of Emil Jaques-Dalcroze. (In progress.)