Jocelyn Swigger

Jocelyn Swigger is Professor of Music at the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College and on the piano faculty of Interlochen Arts Camp. She is a leading scholar and performer of late Romantic composer Agnes Tyrrell, and has premiered and published many of her works. “An hour of pure musical pleasure” was the Blogcritics review of her album of the complete Chopin etudes,recorded with original ornaments on an 1841 Paris Erard piano that was tuned to a historically informed temperament devised especially for Chopin. Her TEDx talk, How I Memorize Piano Music, has over 850,000 views on YouTube. She has played as accompanist for the Manhattan School of Music, the Castleman Quartet Program, the Boys Choir of Harlem Academy, and the Juilliard School, and she spent the summer of 2008 on a Fulbright Scholar Teaching Grant in Asunción, Paraguay. She holds undergraduate degrees from Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory, and master’s and doctoral degrees from the Eastman School of Music; her principal teachers were Evelyne Brancart and Rebecca Penneys. More information at jocelynswigger.com.