ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Renowned bassoonist and educator George Sakakeeny has been appointed to the faculty of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester beginning in the fall of 2016. He has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras around the world, including engagements in Vienna at the historic Musikverein, with the Cleveland Orchestra at…
Eastman’s Third Annual Holocaust Remembrance Concert, “A Time to Remember…”, will take place on May 1, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall. This year’s concert, performed by distinguished Eastman faculty members, showcases the music of Erwin Schulhoff, Viktor Ullmann, Robert Kahn, and Leroy Osman, composers who perished in or survived the Holocaust, or who…
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.) Hot Jobs: conductor and music director (Democrat and Chronicle 04/10/2016) Mark Scatterday’s friends, the ones he plays golf with, like to tease…
By Eric Laprade The Eastman Wind Orchestra, under the direction of Professor Mark Davis Scatterday, will present its final concert of the 2015-2016 season on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 8:00pm in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The concert is free and open to the public. Karel Husa on the campus of Ithaca College The…
On Friday, April 29, 2016, the Eastman School of Music will host a colloquium and concert honoring the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer Milton Babbitt. Milton Babbitt (1916–2011) was one of the most extraordinary American composers and musical thinkers of the twentieth century. According to Professor of Theory Zachary Bernstein, “Babbitt was a…
By Andrew Psarris Collaboration is one of the greatest gifts of playing music. Eastman’s viola and composition studios have teamed up because of it. Recently the two studios performed a collaborative concert in which composition majors wrote pieces for their peers in the viola department, as a follow-up to a similar successful concert in spring…
One of the greatest works in the repertoire for chorus and orchestra, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony, will be presented by forces from the Eastman School of Music on Friday, April 29 at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The immense work brings together the Eastman-Rochester Chorus, Eastman Chorale, and Eastman Philharmonia,…
“If Music Be the Food…”, the concert series benefiting Rochester’s Foodlink, will present the final concert of its seventh season on Monday, May 2, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at St Paul’s Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Road (at East Avenue) in Rochester. “If Music Be the Food…” is a grass roots community project whose mission is to increase awareness…
