About Greg Ristow
I'm currently a doctoral student in choral conducting at the Eastman School of Music, where I also teach classes in Dalcroze Eurhythmics. I direct the RIT Singers at the Rochester Institute of Technology and serve on the choral faculty at the Interlochen Arts Camp in Interlochen, Michigan where I conduct the High School Singers and occasionally the World Youth Honor Choir.
Prior to starting my doctorate, I was professor of music and director of choirs at Lone Star College-Montgomery, a community college in the northern suburbs of Houston. My teaching load there consisted of conducting the choirs and teaching several sections of ear training. Sometimes I taught a section of something else as an overload (music fundamentals, appreciation, or even the first semester of music history), but for the most part the choirs and ear training classes kept me plenty busy.
I went to Oberlin for a music ed. degree, studying piano with Lydia Frumkin. After that I completed two master's degrees at Eastman: choral conducting and music theory pedagogy. While a student there, I was a TA for ear training, and then my last year in Rochester I taught ear training full time (six sections a semester!) on the theory faculty at Eastman.
Between Eastman and Lone Star, I've now taught 42 sections of Ear Training/Aural Skills.
Get in Touch!
Do you have comments or suggestions about this site? Maybe just questions? Drop me an e-mail at gregristow@musicalmind.org. I can't promise to answer everything, but I'll do my very best to!