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Eastman Musicians Win DownBeat Student Awards

DownBeat, often described as “the bible of jazz,” has recognized the Eastman School of Music’s Eastman Chamber Jazz Ensemble under director Jeff Campbell for outstanding undergraduate college performance in the magazine’s 37th annual Student Awards competition. The publication also chose a work by Eastman musician Michael Conrad as the best original composition for a large…

Spontaneous Composition

Celebrate International Jazz Day on Wednesday, April 30, with a great concert that will bring Eastman faculty members and students to perform music you’ve never heard before – and neither have they, since every note will be improvised, created on the spot. Spontaneous Duos is presented by the Eastman Community Music School and the Institute…

American Salutes

After the Eastman Wind Ensemble’s concert tomorrow night, the group, under its director Mark Davis Scatterday, will record the major part of the program: three works by alumnus Jeff Tyzik, with soloists Mark Kellogg and Michael Burritt.. This continues more than 60 years of commitment by the EWE to American music and composers, starting with…

Eastman School of Music Announces New Concert Season and New Series with Performers Jason Alexander, Bernadette Peters, More

A wide variety of renowned guest artists, ranging from musical theater and television stars Jason Alexander and Bernadette Peters to the classical music world’s Emerson and Dover String Quartets, will appear on Eastman School of Music stages during the 2014-2015 concert season. Alexander and Peters are among the headliners for Eastman Presents, a new series…

A Jeff Tyzik Trilogy

  Jeff Tyzik, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra’s Principal Pops Conductor, is also an Eastman grad (BM ’73, MM ’77). A prolific composer, Jeff pays tribute to a number of “Eastman Legends” in his recent work Trilogy on Themes by Howard Hanson, which will be performed by the Eastman Wind Ensemble next Wednesday night, April 30,at…

Remembrance Through Music

Eastman joins in the worldwide observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) on Sunday, April 27, with A Time to Remember …, a concert of chamber music by, or inspired by, composers who were interned in concentration camps during World War II. Conceived by Associate Professor of Violin Renee Jolles, who also performs in the…