Vocal Quartet säje Performs at Eastman Following GRAMMY Win
The vocal quartet säje visits Eastman on Saturday, April 6 as part of their debut album release tour and just on the heels of a recent GRAMMY Award win.
Eastman Students find Faith and Agency in Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmélites”
EOT’s production of “Dialogues des Carmélites,” set during the French Revolution’s “Reign of Terror,” runs April 4-7, 2024.
“Encounters with the Schumanns” Merges Musical Scholarship with Performance on April 3
The music of Robert and Clara Schumann will be the subject of a multifaceted event that brings together scholarship and performance called “Encounters with the Schumanns: Listening, Thinking, Interpreting” on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. The three-part event includes a “Listening” roundtable with faculty and guest scholars at 9:30 a.m.; a “Thinking” seminar (for students only);…
Eastman Celebrates Named Professors For Women’s History Month
Celebrating Katherine Ciesinski, Martin E. and Corazon D. Sanders Professor of Voice; Renée Jolles, Wegman Family Professor of Violin; and Holly Watkins, Minehan Family Professor, for Women’s History Month.
Celebrating Robert Morris’s Retirement in a Joint Faculty Artist Series Recital
Even for fans of serial music, the tightly constructed nature of pitches arranged without the safety net of functional harmony is hard to ascertain upon hearing. But for Robert Morris, the venerable professor of composition at the Eastman School of Music who retires at the end of the academic year after 44 years teaching at…
Celebrating Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez’s Retirement in a Joint Faculty Artist Series Recital
When composer Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez was growing up in Mexico, he started a rock band. He wrote the music and told his band members to go home and practice so they could show up prepared for rehearsals. “I ran my band like one would run a chamber ensemble,” he says. “I didn’t know that at the…
Ushering In the Next Generation of Chamber Musicians
The James E. Clark Chamber Music Residency welcomes The JACK Quartet and WindSync to Eastman this spring semester.
New Faculty Member Patrick Diamond Infuses Theatrical Expertise in Directorial Debut with the Eastman Opera Theatre
At an early October opera rehearsal in the Eastman School of Music’s black box theater, Rihanna’s “This is What You Came For” blasts over the speakers and a group of opera singers are clapping, snapping their fingers, strutting, and using jazz hands to the beat in a mini dance routine. It was a warm-up exercise…
New Tuba Professor Justin Benavidez Prioritizes Diversity and Displays Artistry on Sunday’s Faculty Artist Series Recital
In a recent studio lesson, Eastman School of Music’s new Associate Professor of Tuba and Euphonium Justin Benavidez coached a student on the Eric Ewazen Concerto for Tuba. “Can you make it ring on every note?” Benavidez asked his student. Benavidez proceeded to demonstrate the ascending line with tones that rang out like warm bells.…
Eastman Alumna Turns 100
Happy 100th birthday to Gloria Mikialian ’45E! The Eastman alumna born in 1923, who graduated Eastman in 1945 as a pianist, just turned 100 on August 30th. Gloria remembers receiving a full scholarship, which she was thankful for because her family couldn’t afford to pay Eastman tuition. To pay her room and board, she worked…