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.) Murfreesboro’s ANALISA LEAMING Comes Home to TPAC With HELLO, DOLLY! Tour (Broadway World 04/24/2019) … Leaming is a Lotte Lenya Competition winner.…
Eastman Community Music School (ECMS) will host its annual ‘Springfest” from Monday, May 20 to Sunday, June 2 at the Eastman School of Music, in several concert halls and classrooms across the campus. “During each schoolyear, ECMS produces an average of three recitals every week,” says Petar Kodzas, the Associate Dean and Director of the…
2019 Links Scholarship recipient Alexis Peart By Andrew Bockman The Links Scholarship, a collaborative effort between the Rochester, New York Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, and the Eastman School of Music, recognizes the extraordinary talent and academic achievement of an African-American scholar musician. The 2019 recipient is a third-year student and mezzo-soprano, Alexis Peart. Students…
by Monica Dale Summer@Eastman is moving forward this year with a new institute for both dancers and musicians: MusiKinesis®! Modern dance is hardly new to Eastman, though; Martha Graham taught and performed at Eastman in 1925-26. The “Eastman School of Dance and Dramatic Action” used the fifth floor annex as its dance studio. Speaking of…
“If Music Be the Food…” founder, violist Carol Rodland (second from right), returned for the opening IMBTF concert in October 2018, performing with the Ying Quartet. By Sarah Forestieri What better way is there to bring a community together than through the power of music? Eastman Assistant Professor of String Chamber Music, Mimi Hwang,…
League of American Orchestras Rachelle Schlosser, Director of Media Relations and Communications rschlosser@americanorchestras.org, (646) 822-4027 The Eastman School of Music and the League of American Orchestras will collaborate on a one-year pilot program to co-produce and launch a new category of the Eastman Case Studies focused on orchestra management. Highlighting League member orchestras, the…
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.) Connections: Understanding the history and cultural significance of Notre Dame (WXXI News 04/18/2019) We talk about the meaning of those relics, the…
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.) Holocaust remembrance concert set for May 5 (Monroe County Post 04/12/2019) Eastman School of Music faculty members, students and alumni will join…
Dr. Jean M. Barr, Professor of Accompanying and Chamber Music and the Director of the Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music Degree Program at Eastman School of Music is retiring at the end of the 2018-19 school year. Eastman is proud to present an alumni concert, organized by alumni and friends, in her honor on May…
ECMS instructor Kyle Peters with a student in the school’s Messinger Hall (“Messinger One”). By Kyle Peters School is almost out for the summer! It’s time to get ready for the beach, sleeping in, campfires and… summer music lessons? That’s right, summer music lessons! Taking lessons during the summer will prepare you to be…