Naomi Gregory

Performer-scholar Naomi Gregory performs widely as an organist and harpsichordist, working with period ensembles including Incantare, Pegasus Early Music, Publick Musick, and, as guest director, the Schola Antiqua of Chicago. She is Lecturer in Music in the Arthur Satz Department of Music at the University of Rochester and Director of Music for the First Baptist Church in Penfield, NY. Naomi holds a PhD degree in musicology, and a DMA degree in organ performance and literature, from Eastman School of Music, and MA and MPhil degrees in music and musicology from the University of Cambridge, UK. Her PhD dissertation explores the five and six-voice motet at the royal French court in the early sixteenth century and its role in the performance and practices of royal piety. She has presented her research at the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference. Her DMA lecture recital presented a reconstruction of Vespers from mid-seventeenth century Rome, featuring the Italian Baroque Organ at the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY. From 2013-2019, Naomi curated a monthly concert series showcasing this instrument. She has also served as a graduate instructor of early music and continuo assistant for Eastman’s Collegium Musicum.