Congratulations to the Midic Winds!

Congratulations to the Midic Winds (Johanna Gruskin, flute; June Kim, oboe; Rebecca Tobin, clarinet; Russell Rybicki, horn; and Quinn Delaney, bassoon) on winning the Bronze Medal in the Senior Wind Division in the 2013 Fischoff Competition! The Gold Medal was won by another outstanding Eastman chamber music ensemble, Project Fusion Saxophone Quartet! Congratulations to all!

Midic Winds

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Final Degree Recital of the Semester

On Monday, May 6 at 7:00PM in Kilbourn Hall, Claude Lumley will be presenting his Master of Music degree recital.

Claude Lumley Recital

This is the final degree recital of the semester so we hope you will come check it out!

After Claude’s recital, come on down to Ciminelli Formal Lounge at 8:30PM to hear the Midic Winds (Johanna Gruskin, flute, June Kim, oboe, Rebecca Tobin, clarinet, Russell Rybicki, horn, and Quinn Delaney, bassoon). They have advanced in the prestigious Fischoff Competition and are performing their competition repertoire. The program includes Tomasi’s Cinq Danses, Barber’s Summer Music, Blumer’s Quintet, and Harbison’s Quintet for Winds. Congrats, Midic Winds!

Midic Winds

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Eastman Horn Choir Presents a Musical Travelogue

On Thursday, March 28 at 8:00PM in Kilbourn Hall, the Eastman Horn Choir will present A Musical Travelogue: Works Inspired by Geography.

The program features large pieces for horn choir and smaller chamber works by Ewazen, Krol, Beckel, and others. Junior hornist Daniel Brottman will be premiering a new arrangement for horn octet that highlights a place where no horn has gone before…

We hope to see you there!

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BM/PC Degree Recital

On Saturday, March 23rd at 1:30 PM in Kilbourn Hall, senior Renée Vogen will be presenting her Bachelor of Music/Performer’s Certificate recital.

Vogen Poster

Here is what Renée has to say about her recital:

Works include Madsen-Sonata for Horn and Piano, Larsson-Concertino for Horn and Chamber Orchestra, Plog-Aesop’s Fables for Horn, Narrator, and Piano, and Rosetti-Concerto for two Horns in Eb(C56Q!).

I’m super lucky to be playing these pieces with Alisa Curlee, Byron Johns, Will Berman, Danko Drusko, Thomas Dougherty, Carmen Johnson Pájaro, Sam Moraes, Haley Moore, Molly Goldman, Evan Basta, Jebat Kee, Tommy Fields, Kim Jeong, Josh Depoint, Zac Hammand, June Kim, Kelly Suthers, and Lauren Becker!

I hope you can make it! (A dessert reception will be held in Cominsky following the recital!)

If you cannot make it to Rochester, visit this website for live streaming-don’t forget-the recital is at 1:30 Eastern Time!
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/senior-recitals1

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BM/PC Degree Recital

Russell Rybicki, Horn, BM/PC Degree Recital

Sunday, February 24, 2013
Hatch Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music

If you are not in the Rochester area, feel free to tune in to this live broadcast at 7 PM Eastern time on February 24th! It will also be recorded and posted at this same link afterward.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/senior-recitals1

Russell Rybicki

Program:

Concert Etude for Solo Horn, Esa-Pekka Salonen

Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99, J. Brahms (Trans. Rybicki)

Intermission

Sextet for Winds and Piano, Daniel Brottman (World Premiere)

Prelude, Theme and Variations, G. Rossini

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