The following guest post was written by Kara Miller, Class of 2018.  Thanks Kara! ******** As a dual degree student pursuing both horn performance and business, people often say to me, âOh good, you have a backup plan that will actually make you money,â as if being a musician isnât enough. Usually I just smile and…
âIf Music Be the Food . . .â, the concert series benefiting Rochesterâs Foodlink, will conclude its eighth season on Sunday, April 30, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paulâs Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Road (at East Avenue) in Rochester.  The concert will open with the Eastman Viola Ensemble performing works of Kenji Bunch and Michael Kimber. Eastman…
 Here are some select recent clippings 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.) Lee Koonce and the Gateways Music Festival (School Band and Orchestra April 2017) Lee Koonce is the president and artistic director for the Gateways Music…
           Student organization Eastman Americana, led by students Tahlia Cott and Caroline Samuels, is hosting a free event in ESM 902 on April 8th, 12pm-2pm. Ithaca College Associate Professor Nicholas Walker headlines the event on double bass, and his collaborators on a project called âRockwood Ferry,â vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Tenzin Chopak, and violinist and vocalist…
The following guest post was written by Anna Lenhert ’17.  Thanks Anna! ***** It is impossible to adequately cover five years of phenomenal opportunities and memories in one blog post, but here is my best âbirdâs eyeâ reflection on my time here at Eastman. Though it may sound clichĂ©, my time here has been everything I…
What makes a great singer in the tradition of jazz, rock, or blues? It is not only vocal quality and emotional expression, but the actual notes sungâand not just the usual notes on the piano keyboard. In the words of soul singer Marvin Gaye: âThere’s got to be other notes some place, in some dimension,…
Composer and Eastman Professor Emeritus Samuel Adler By Dan Gross On Wednesday, April 5, guitarist Nicholas Goluses, the Co-Chair of Eastmanâs Department of Strings, Harp, and Guitar, will perform Samuel Adlerâs Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra with the Eastman Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra directed by Neil Varon. Adler is Professor Emeritus at Eastman, having taught here…
Here are some select recent clippings 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.) Money cannot measure benefits of the arts to society (Democrat and Chronicle 03/29/2017) When President Lyndon B. Johnson first established the National Endowment for the…
Organist Annette Richards will present works by both well-known and lesser-known 17th century composers, whose keyboard masterpieces explored musicâs power to invent and imagine, as part of the Eastman School of Musicâs âThird Thursday Concertsâ on the Italian Baroque Organ at the Memorial Art Gallery. âThe Power of Musick,â at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 20,…
The Eastman Departmental Diversity Initiative will host a residency by Mieko Kanno, a noted violin virtuoso and expert on contemporary Western art music. In addition to conducting a master class and speaking at a Music Theory Department colloquium, Kanno will give an address on âQuiet is Beautiful: The Aesthetics of Softness Today.â Exploring soft sound…