Daily Archives: February 2, 2016

Legendary Jazz Composer and Arranger Bill Holman to Visit the Eastman School of Music

News RoomBy Olga Malavet February 2, 2016

NEA Jazz Master Bill Holman will visit the Eastman School of Music to offer workshops and performances with students from February 9-11. Holman is renowned as a composer, arranger, and saxophonist, and received one of the highest honors in music in 2010 from the National Endowment for the Arts as a Jazz Master. Additionally, he…

Re-imagining Beethoven in Greece: Eastman Students present “The Ritsos Project”

Eastman JournalBy David Raymond February 2, 2016

Photographs from the inaugural Ritsos project in Athens, July 2015. During a visit to her grandmother’s homeland in 2013, composer Aristea Mellos learned that the residents of the Greek island of Samos had few opportunities to hear live classical music. She set out to change that when she got back to Eastman. With the help…