“Low strings” are in the spotlight this week at Eastman, performing old music and up-to-the-minute music. Eastman’s Viol Consort, which plays string instruments that are the Renaissance and Baroque forerunners of the viola, cello, and bass, performs a concert of 18th-century music on Thursday, January 16 at the Memorial Art Gallery, joined by the Italian…
Many of you are required, or at least encouraged, to perform all or part of your audition from memory.[i] What I’ve learned from my own performing and teaching career is that memorization is not important so much for its own sake, but more so for the musical benefits it brings. The ultimate goal is a…
Spring semester classes start today at Eastman — and spring semester concerts and recitals have already started! You can keep up with our busy performance calendar by picking up a copy of Encore!, available in the Main Hall and at the Concert Office. Highlights of the coming semester include Leon Fleisher and the Ying…
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.) Exchange of Rhythms (The Hindu 01/09/2014) The new mridangam concerto with percussion quartet that premiered this month to a well attended audience…
“If Music Be the Food…,” a concert series benefiting Rochester’ Foodlink, will continue its fifth season with an exciting program of music on Sunday, January 26, 2014, at 7:30 PM, at Third Presbyterian Church, 4 Meigs St., Rochester. The concert will open with Telemann’s Cantata on Psalm 100, performed by Jan Opalach, bass-baritone, Peter DuBois,…
Today’s guest post is written by Amy Skjerseth, a recent graduate of Eastman and the Dual Degree program at the University of Rochester. If you are considering a Dual Degree, you may find it useful to hear about her experiences. Thanks Amy! ***************** Throughout high school, I always knew that I wanted to study music:…
This Sunday, January 12, Eastman presents its annual William Warfield Scholarship Fund Scholarship Concert, featuring soprano Joel Dyson, an Eastman senior who has won this scholarship two years in a row. The Warfield Scholarship Fund, founded in 1977, provides financial aid to talented, deserving voice students who attend Eastman. It also serves as a reminder…