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. “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. In addition to her life as a classical musician, she has also performed on accordion, vocals, and occasional electric bass in the indie folk rock band Gettysburg Pirate Orchestra. She is currently obsessed with the music of late Romantic Czech composer Agnes Tyrrell; other passions include studying Alexander Technique and yoga and jamming with her teenage drummer son. She can be heard on Con Brio Recordings and Centaur Records. She hosts two very occasional podcasts: Play It Again Swig (an audio practice diary) and Just Piano Improv. Jocelyn serves as Judge of Elections in her local precinct, and encourages you to vote in every local election. More information at jocelynswigger.com.