INGRID BOCK

cellopets@yahoo.com

For college, I went to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY as a music performance major, and got Bachelor's and Master's degrees there. I lived in Seattle for a year and New York City for a year, and Vermont for two years, and now I've ended up back in Rochester, where I play in the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and in a cello quartet with three other women, teach privately at home and at Nazareth College, and have a non-profit chamber music business. I've been married twice but have no kids. I have lots of pets and do animal rescue work. You can find me on Facebook. I'm looking forward to our reunion!

When I think of high school, the first person who comes to mind is Mr. Greenan, the beloved geometry teacher. He used songs and even his own dancing to help us remember things, which is a trick I use with my own music students. I tell them about Mr. Greenan and sing this song, which I still remember perfectly:
C-c-c-cosine, beautiful cosine,
You're the only f-f-f-function I adore;
When the m-moon shines over the lighthouse,
You can calculate the distance to the shore.
It's too bad I can't remember the calculation, but in terms of memory, I'll take what I can get!