Boston-based Dinosaur Annex, which boasts more than 35 years on the new music scene, performs on the stage of Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. Dedicated to bringing cutting-edge works to the public through live performing, commissioning, and recording, Dinosaur Annex has given hundreds of premieres.…
Unexpected, eclectic, adventurous, genre-defying, informal, energetic, cross-cultural, versatile, innovative – critics have used many adjectives to describe Brooklyn Rider. The audience- and critic-pleasing string quartet brings its gripping performance style to the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. Composed of four classically trained musicians – violinists Johnny Gandelsman…
“William Warfield: A Legacy in Music,” the annual concert supporting the William Warfield Scholarship Fund and spotlighting its talented recipients, will feature soprano Joel Callonia Dyson, a junior at the Eastman School of Music, at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013, in the School’s Kilbourn Hall. Since it was founded in 1977, the Fund has…
Eastman Community Music School will hold its annual Homecoming, a tradition that began in 1998, from Thursday, Dec. 20, through Saturday, Dec. 22. Originally a one-day extravaganza of concerts in venues across the Eastman School of Music campus, the event showcases the talent and musicianship of students of all ages and has grown in popularity…
Eastman School of Music graduate Robert (Bob) Ludwig got four nominations and alumni Renée Fleming, Bill Cunliffe, and Gene Scheer also were nominated in the 55th Annual Grammy Awards competition. Ludwig (BM ’66 music education and MM ’01 trumpet) is actually competing against himself in two categories. He was nominated in the Best Engineered Album,…
Eastman School of Music musicians will present a holiday-themed concert of instrumental and choral fare at the Memorial Art Gallery at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16. Part of the monthly “Third Sunday Concert with the Italian Baroque Organ” series, the program features organist Michael Unger, part-time instructor at Eastman, collaborating with Eastman students, alumni, and…
Keith Elder, an attorney and former arts administrator with major orchestras, has been named Director of Concert Activities for the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester. In addition to providing leadership to the concert office staff, he will advise the Dean on the School’s concert series, manage all aspects of the School’s…
David Higgs, chair of the Organ Department at the Eastman School of Music and one of America’s leading concert organists, has received the Paul Creston Award. Presented by St. Malachy’s–The Actors’ Chapel, the award recognizes artistic excellence by a significant figure in church music and the performing arts who embodies the Creston Creed and his…
One hundred years after he completed it, Edward Elgar’s Music Makers will finally get its Rochester premiere at Eastman School of Music Friday, Dec. 7, at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. Under the direction of William Weinert and Yunn-Shan Ma, the Eastman-Rochester Chorus and the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra will join forces…
Elizabeth West Marvin, Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music, has received the Gail Boyd de Stwolinski Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Music Theory Teaching and Scholarship. Presented every two years by the Gail Boyd de Stwolinski Center for Music Pedagogy at the University of Oklahoma, the award recognizes outstanding pedagogical contributions…