Rochester audiences will have one last chance to hear the magnificent Brombaugh organ, Opus 9 in concert at St. Michaelâs Roman Catholic Church before the organ is packed up and shipped to its new home in California. Eastman School of Music organ faculty members will join with the St. Michaelâs Chamber Choir in a special…
Eastman School of Music students Ryaan Ahmed (MM â15) and Erika Pinkerton (MM â15) have received prestigious national honors. The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans named Ahmed a 2013 Fellow, and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation selected Pinkerton as a Graduate Arts Award Recipient. The awards recognize both students for their past…
Ruth Cahn, senior instructor in percussion at the Eastman Community Music School (ECMS), has received the Lifetime Achievement in Education Award from The Percussive Arts Society. The award recognizes the contributions of the most highly regarded leaders in percussion education. Established in 2002, the award honors recipients for demonstrating the highest ideals and professional integrity…
Jonathan Wintringham, a masterâs degree student at the Eastman School of Music, will be featured as a âYoung Artist in Residenceâ on Performance Today, a national classical music radio series that airs locally on WXXI FM 91.5. (Read and watch the feature online.) A saxophonist and recording artist who made his professional debut at 17,…
Prize-winning French composer Philippe Leroux, whose work includes electronic, acousmatic, vocal, chamber, and symphonic music, will be in-residence in the Eastman School of Music Nov. 20 and 21. His visit, sponsored by the Eastman Computer Music Center (ECMC), includes a recital and public symposium. Lerouxâs celebrated Voi(rex), a five-movement chamber piece based on a collection…
The Eastman Community Music Schoolâs New Horizons Band will perform its annual Holiday Concert on Sunday, Dec. 8, at 2 p.m. in the University of Rochesterâs Advancement Center Auditorium (formerly St. Agnes High School) located at 300 East River Rd. The event is free and open to the public; the venue is handicap accessible with…
Students from the Eastman School of Musicâs Saxophone and Organ studios will collaborate on a concert titled âSaxophone and Organ: 18th-century Italian Music in New Perspectivesâ on Sunday, Nov. 17 at 5:30 p.m. As part of the Third Sunday Concert series, the concert will be held in the resonant Fountain Court at the Memorial Art…
Violin virtuoso and classical music icon Itzhak Perlman will perform with the Eastman School of Musicâs Philharmonia orchestra under conductor Neil Varon on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. Beloved for his charm and humanity as well as his remarkable artistry, Perlman has appeared with every major orchestra…
Steven Laitz, professor of music theory at the Eastman School of Music, has been named director of the Gail Boyd de Stwolinski Center for Music Theory Pedagogy. He becomes only the second director of the Center, which was founded in 1985 at the University of Oklahoma. Laitz will continue to serve on the faculty at…