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+1 585-454-4596
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50 Plymouth Ave N, Rochester, NY, 14614
Center City
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0.6 miGreyhound & Trailways
0.7 miRTS Broad St. Park and Ride
0.7 miRochester
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Specialties
Hochstein provides excellent music and dance instruction to anyone who is interested — regardless of age, level of skill, background, or ability to pay. We aim to nurture and inspire each individual, and to welcome all to our community of musicians, dancers, and audiences.
Our historic 857-seat Performance Hall is a acoustically adept at concerts and recitals for solo artists through symphonies. Our smaller Hilda D. Taylor Recital Hall seats 100 and has an intimate performance atmosphere. Numerous concerts occur year ’round in both spaces that the community is welcome to; they are both available for rental.
History
Established in 1920.
David Hochstein was a promising young musician, beloved by Rochester, whose life was cut short as a soldier in WWI. Rochester musicians raised funds from a memorial concert that became the nucleus of support for a proposed Memorial Music School. The David Hochstein Music School Settlement was granted a Provisional Charter by the State of New York and opened in the Hochstein family home on Joseph Avenue. Quickly outgrowing the modest Hochstein home, funds were raised for a new Hochstein School on 12 Hoeltzer Street, where the school thrived for nearly 50 years. In 1961, Hochstein joined the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts (now the National Guild for Community Arts Education) and became the first non-degree granting community school in the country to be awarded accreditation by the National Association of Schools of Music in 1976. The School moved to its present location (formerly Central Presbyterian Church) on Plymouth Ave in 1975. Renovations were made in the 1990’s.
Meet the Manager
Margaret Q.
Manager
Margaret «Peggy» Quackenbush is President & Executive Director of Hochstein. She joined the Hochstein faculty as a clarinet instructor in 1979. She has a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Performance and Literature (clarinet) from the Eastman School of Music; Master of Arts in Music History from the University of Oregon School of Music; Bachelor of Arts in Music, with distinction, from the University of Minnesota (Morris). She is a member of the Antara Winds and performs regularly as soloist, chamber, and orchestral clarinetist. Peggy is a former member of the Eugene (OR) Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Opera, the Oregon Bach Festival and the Oregon Wind Quintet.
