The great Italian writer Italo Calvino (pictured) is the inspiration for this year’s Benson Forum on Creativity, which brings together the music of Professor of Composition Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez and several Eastman student composers, the Eastman BroadBand ensemble (pictured below), and the bilingual Kairos Italy Theater troupe. They are collaborating for “If on a Winter’s Night…
Twelve students have been chosen to represent the Eastman School of Music in a concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, April 23. Their performance is part of the Conservatory Project, a series that showcases outstanding young musicians from around the country. The event presents talented artists in classical…
Violinist Carmen Lavada Johnson-Pájaro, this year’s recipient of the annual scholarship awarded by the Rochester, New York Chapter, The Links, Incorporated, to an Eastman School of Music student, will present a recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 13, in Kilbourn Hall. The award, a cooperative effort between the Rochester, New York Chapter, The Links, Incorporated,…
Here are some select clippings from the past week showing the variety of hits/mentions identifying musicians and scholars as Eastman School of Music alumni, faculty or students. Note: Some links may have expired.) Maria Schneider’s Classical Jazz: No boundaries; a daring composer defies categories (The Economist 03/08/2014) Ms Schneider stunned the classical music world in…
A concert program of animated short films with music written and performed by Eastman School of Music students and faculty will be presented at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 5, in Room 415 (rehearsal room) in the Eastman East Wing. “Im-Pulse Image Percussion” features the Eastman Percussion Ensemble and Professor of Percussion Michael Burritt performing new…
Two Eastman School of Music graduates, Natalie Ballenger and Diana Rose Becker, are among the 14 singer-actors in the finals of the 2014 Lotte Lenya Competition, which will be held on Saturday, April 12, in Eastman’s Kilbourn Hall. They will compete for top prizes of $15,000, $10,000, and $7,500 in front of judges Rob Berman,…
Last Sunday’s concert in Kodak Hall by the United States Army Field Band not only brought several Eastman alumni back to the their alma mater, it gave them the opportunity to perform alongside their former teachers, who joined the band for several numbers. Here are photos of Professor of Horn Peter Kurau with his student…
Israeli-born composer Chaya Czernowin, whose works present challenging sonic landscapes of atypical and complex structures, will be at the Eastman School of Music from Monday, April 7, to Friday, April 11. During her residency as the Howard Hanson Visiting Professor of Composition, Czernowin will hold master classes, meet privately with composition students, and attend rehearsals…
