The following post was written by Katie Hagen, a current DMA viola student at Eastman. Thanks Katie! So, you’re about ready to finish up your undergraduate degree, and thinking about graduate school. Here are some thoughts on the difference between undergraduate and graduate degrees, and about graduate study at Eastman. Assistantships/Fellowships. Grad schools want to…
The Eastman School of Music has announced that Mark Berry has been appointed Executive Director of Communications. In this position, he will manage all aspects of the School’s strategic communications program, including developing and overseeing marketing, media relations, public relations, publications, and design. Berry has worked in arts marketing and arts administration for more than…
Kurt Weill’s Street Scene, which The New York Times called “the most important step towards significantly American opera” when it premiered in 1947, will be presented by Eastman Opera Theatre April 4 through 7. Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, Street Scene garnered Weill the first Tony Award for Best Original…
Keyboardist, singer, and composer David Paich, a member of the rock group Toto, and drummer Dennis Mackrel, leader of the Count Basie Orchestra, will perform with the Eastman School of Music’s Chamber Jazz Ensemble on Friday, March 22. The concert, at 8 p.m. in the School’s Kilbourn Hall, features the works of Paich’s father, legendary…
Acclaimed and in-demand pianist Jeremy Denk, a recitalist, soloist, and chamber musician dubbed one of the great pianists of his generation, makes a return appearance at the Eastman School of Music at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, in Kilbourn Hall. Since making his major debut at Alice Tully Hall in New York City in 1997,…
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Melinda Wagner, whose work has earned comparisons to music giants Elliott Carter and Olivier Messiaen, will be in-residence at the Eastman School of Music for this year’s Women in Music Festival. She will give a symposium, coach students, and attend rehearsals and performances of her works, including an all-Wagner concert by the…
Bard College President Leon Botstein, a noted writer on music as well as an adventurous conductor, will give the Eastman School of Music’s 2013 Glenn Watkins Lecture on Wednesday, March 6, at 4:30 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall, Eastman East Wing. He will speak on “The Future of Performance and Concert Life in Historical Perspective.”…
