Women in Music Festival

Women in Music Festival 2022

Centennial Edition March 21-25, 2022

As part of the Eastman School of Music Centennial celebration, we are bringing back the weeklong Women in Music Festival that took place annually from 2005 to 2014 during Women’s History Month. For the 2022 edition, we are celebrating composer Florence B. Price, women in brass and in jazz, and Mexican composer Georgina Derbez. We are also welcoming back alumni Nicole Keller, organist, and Leonard Hayes, pianist. See the Festival Schedule below for an overview of the events.

Download the Women in Music Festival booklet HERE

Read the blog: “Failure Is Still Impossible! Eastman’s Women in Music Festival Returns

Festival Schedule:

Monday, March 21, 2022

12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunchtime Concert
Lowry Hall, Eastman School of Music
3:30-5:00 p.m.

Panel Discussion: Women in Jazz
Room ESM 305, Eastman School of Music

PANELISTS:

Roxy Coss, Musician, Composer, Bandleader, Educator, Activist, and Founder and President of Women In Jazz Organization (WIJO), based in NYC
Kellin Hanas, jazz trumpetist based in New York City
Sophia Kickhofel, jazz saxophonist based in New York City
Naomi Nakanishi, pianist, improviser, composer based in Boston, MA
Katelyn Robinson, jazz vocalist based in Denton, Texas

MODERATOR:

Sarah Navratil, Jazz Saxophone major, Eastman School of Music

Link to online panel:  https://rochester.zoom.us/j/99364520284

 

7:30 p.m.

Kilbourn Concert Series: Lorelei Ensemble.
Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music.

Music by: Barbara Strozzi, BJÖRK, Caroline Shaw, and Laura Mvula. Full concert program at the door.

TICKETED

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

12:10-1:00 p.m.

Tuesday Pipes: Organ Works by Florence B. Price
Christ Church Cathedral, 141 East Ave Rochester, NY

Guest organist: Nicole Keller, Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music in Berea, Ohio; Associate Organist at Trinity Cathedral (Episcopal) in Cleveland

Full concert program at the door.
Find out more about Nicole Keller: http://www.nicolekeller.com/

 

3:30-5:00 p.m.

Panel Discussion: Women in Brass
Room OSL 101, Eastman School of Music

PANELISTS:

Joanna Ross Hersey, Professor of Music, UNC Pembroke, President, IWBC
Natalie Mannix, Associate Professor of Trombone, Brass Area Coordinator, U. of North Texas
Raquel Samayoa, Assistant Professor of Trumpet at the University of North Texas
Marie Speziale, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Associate Principal Trumpet (retired); The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, Professor Emerita of Trumpet and Brass Department Chair
Kelly Watkins, Conductor Festival of Winds Honor Band, Hendrix CollegeMODERATOR: Dr. Jean Pedersen, Associate Professor of History, Eastman School of Music

Link to online panel: https://rochester.zoom.us/j/97305366528

 

7:30 p.m.

Eastman Horn Choir
Peter Kurau, conductor
Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music

Premieres of Pamela Marshall’s Out of the Depths and Jennifer Bellor’s Ballad of a Wanderer.Full concert program at the door.

Livestream:  https://www.esm.rochester.edu/live/

 

Wednesday, March 23

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Lunchtime Concert
Lowry Hall, Eastman School of Music

 

2:00-3:00 p.m.

Presentation: Negotiations for Women
ESM 305, Eastman School of Music

Rachel Roberts, Director of the Institute for Music Leadership, Eastman School of Music

Find out more about Rachel Roberts: https://www.esm.rochester.edu/faculty/rachel-roberts/

Link to livestream:  https://rochester.zoom.us/j/94008753193

 

7:30 p.m.

Eastman Wind Ensemble and Eastman Wind Orchestra
Kodak Hall, Eastman School of Music

Music by Nancy Galbraith, Shuying Li, Erica Muhl, Augusta Read Thomas, Diana Rosenblum, and Alex Shapiro

Livestream:  https://www.esm.rochester.edu/live/

 

Thursday, March 24

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Lunchtime concert “Eastman @ Washington Square.”
Songs by Women Composers: A Historical Journey.
First Universalist Church, 150 S. Clinton Ave Rochester, NY

 

3:30-5:00 p.m.

Composers Forum: Georgina Derbez
Online presentation and Q&A

Learn more about Georgina Derbez at: http://www.georginaderbez.com/es_es/
Link to online presentation:  https://rochester.zoom.us/j/99695861585

 

7:30 p.m.

Special “Fourth Thursday” at the MAG: Song and Dance: Old and New Music by Women Composers on the Italian Baroque Organ
Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave Rochester, NY

Guest organist: Anne Laver, Assistant Professor of Organ and University Organist at Syracuse University’s Setnor School of Music. Premiere of  Natalie Draper’s Pattern Dances for Meantone Organ with the collaboration of dancers from The School of the Arts.

Concert FREE with MAG admission.

 

Friday, March 25

9:00-11:45 a.m.

Florence Price Symposium, Humanities Corridor Project.
Hatch Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music.

Welcome by Jamal Rossi, Joan and Martin Messinger Dean

Session I: Black Idioms in the Music of Florence B. Price
Cory Hunter, University of Rochester
Livestream:  https://www.esm.rochester.edu/live/

Session II: The Caged Bird: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price.
Documentary, pre-film presentation and post-viewing Q&A with James Greeson*, documentarian, University of Arkansas

 

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Lunchtime Concert
Lowry Hall, Eastman School of Music

Lunch: pre-order by Tuesday, March 22 (midnight) from Java’s Café:
javascafe.com/preorderlunch

 

1:30-5:00 p.m.

Florence Price Symposium, Humanities Corridor Project.
Hatch Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music

Session IIINo Gender Equity Without Intersectionality: Eastman Student Panel Discussion
Livestream:  https://www.esm.rochester.edu/live/

Session IV
Florence Price: The Rebirth of the Piano Concerto in One Movement.  Stephen Spinelli, Cornell University
Featuring:
Leonard Hayes, piano I (solo)
Érico Bezerra, piano II (orchestral reduction)Livestream:  https://www.esm.rochester.edu/live/

Session V — Archival Work and Analysis of Florence Price’s Art Songs. Stephen Spinelli (Cornell University), Tamara Acosta (Cornell University and Ithaca College), Charity Lofthouse (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), Sarah Marlowe (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester)
Featuring:
Kayla Sconiers, soprano
Sirui Wang, piano

Livestream:  https://www.esm.rochester.edu/live/

 

7:30 p.m.

Florence Price Legacy Concert.
Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of MusicLivestream:  https://www.esm.rochester.edu/live/

 


KEEP THE WOMEN IN MUSIC FESTIVAL GOING!


The Music She Writes
: A Celebration of Asian Female Composers*
Virtual Festival

The Music She Writes is a virtual festival highlighting the diversity and significance of music by Asian Female Composers within the contemporary music landscape. Organized by Eastman School of Music alumne composer Ania Vu and pianist Eunmi Ko, this series of four virtual concerts will broadcast every other Friday at 7:00 p.m.from April 1st to May 13th 2022 as part of the Eastman Centennial “100 concerts to celebrate 100 years” at: https://www.rochester.edu/adv/eastman-centennial/get-involved/100-concerts/

April 1, 2022: Where There Are Mountains, Snow, and Trees

April 15, 2022: What Is Lost and What Remains

April 29, 2022: Old Made Anew

May 13, 2022: Giving a Voice

 

*This project is made possible by a grant from the
Eastman Departmental Diversity Initiative committee.