YING QUARTET + PUSH = CREATIVE COLLISION

Put Eastman School of Music’s world-class string quartet-in-residence, the Ying Quartet, together in a room with Rochester’s award-winning masters of motion theatre, PUSH Physical Theatre, and what do you get? “Creative Collision is what we’re calling it,” says PUSH Co-Founder/Co-Director Darren Stevenson. “It’s something that can happen only when both groups are fully open to…

A View into the Eastman Experience

  By Petar Kodzas, Eastman Associate Dean and Director of Eastman Community Music School For over 30 years, the Eastman School of Music has housed a premiere residential program for high-school students who aspire to careers in music.  This program was known to generations as a Music Horizons and, as the name suggests, it opened…

SAXES PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS: FIRST LOOK AT THE EASTMAN SAXOPHONE PROJECT (ESP) INSTITUTE

The Eastman Saxophone Project (ESP), performing in Kilbourn Hall by Jarod Lau Saxophone ensemble performances have long been a highlight of the Summer@Eastman concert calendar for participants and audience members alike (there’s nothing quite like seeing—or hearing—forty saxophonists play “The Pines of the Appian Way” from Respighi’s Pines of Rome). This year, Professor Chien-Kwan Lin…

The Fernando Laires Piano Series Presents: Lilya Zilberstein

The Fernando Laires Piano Series presents Lilya Zilberstein on Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 7:30 p.m., in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. Zilberstein will be performing Scriabin’s Sonata in F# Minor No. 3, Op. 23; Rachmaninoff’s Six moments musicaux; and Beethoven’s 24 Variations on Venni Amore by Vincenzio Righini as well as Sonata No. 23, Op. 57, Appassionata. Martha Argerich…