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The Eastmanaires are lead by the following musicians:

Text Box: Joanne Whiting – Director Director@Eastmanaires.org Growing up in a home with two pianos and an organ, Joanne’s musical gift began cultivation early in her life. She went on to study music in boarding school at Hampden DuBose Academy, and majored in music focusing on Piano and Voice at Wheaton College. Music has always been a large part of her life, whether singing as a wife and mother of four, performing with the US Army band and soloing in the Cadet Chapel at West Point, teaching private lessons, or serving as organist and choirmaster at Sacred Heart Church, substitute organist at Immaculate Conception Church and Our Lady of Fatima Church. Joanne's most cherished gift is her ability to instill a love and appreciation for the artistry and therapy of music. While the Eastmanaires is not a religious organization, Joanne is happy to lead such a warm and loving community with a spiritual depth that is demonstrated in the care they show for each other and their neighbors.                   JoanieV1.jpg   

Text Box: Bob Koester – Assistant Director AsstDirector@Eastmanaires.org Starting with piano lessons at age five and adding clarinet five years later, Bob’s first twenty-five years were heavily involved in instrumental music. While earning a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Michigan, he played in the marching and symphonic bands. He did his Army stint playing in the West Point Band (as an enlisted man, not a cadet) and, in his spare time, became involved with high fidelity, which was just coming of age in the mid-fifties. Getting interested in the technical side of music, he returned to the University of Michigan for an electrical engineering degree and went to work for Bell Laboratories, first in Murray Hill and then Holmdel, NJ. The work, although not related to music, did involve acoustics and critical listening. An assignment with AT&T brought him to Chatham, NJ where he began singing in a church choir led by David Stanley York, a professor at Westminster Choir College and composer of many religious choral works. Bob and his wife Elaine moved to Eastman in 1994, and joined the Eastmanaires shortly thereafter. He became Assistant Director as a result of taking over a rehearsal for Joanie Whiting sometime in the mid-to-late 1990s. Attending concerts and listening to recorded performances are important pastimes for Bob and his wife. Other hobbies are astronomy, golf, travel and learning brand-new things in Dartmouth’s ILEAD program.                   Bob Koester V1.jpg