The 2016 Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (XRIJF) runs from June 24 until July 2. Among the hundreds of musicians gathering for this major musical event are many Eastman faculty members, alumni, and students. Free-lance writer Dan Gross will be blogging regularly during this period with reports and interviews highlighting Eastman’s involvement in the XRIJF.…
The 2016 Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (XRIJF) runs from June 24 until July 2. Among the hundreds of musicians gathering for this major musical event are many Eastman faculty members, alumni, and students. Free-lance writer Dan Gross will be blogging regularly during the next nine days with reports and interviews highlighting Eastman’s involvement in…
Danny Ziemann – photograph by Nadine Sherman The 2016 Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (XRIJF) opens tonight, June 24, and runs until July 2. Among the hundreds of musicians gathering for this major musical event are many Eastman faculty members, alumni, and students. Free-lance writer Dan Gross will be blogging regularly during the next nine…
Members of the Eastman Viola Ensemble with Professor Carol Rodland (fifth from left) Eastman viola students (and their teachers Carol Rodland and George Taylor) were in the spotlight several times during the 2016 American Viola Society Festival, which was held this year from June 8 through June 11 at Oberlin College Conservatory. Four of the…
by Andrea Schuler, Summer@Eastman Program Coordinator Members of the 2015 Classical Music on the Spot class, with instructors Gilad Rabinovitch (wearing a blue shirt) and Johnandrew Slominski (wearing a tie), both in the back row Eastman Assistant Professor of Theory Johnandrew Slominski is the creator and director of one of Summer@Eastman’s most unusual offerings, Classical…
Photograph by Amanda Sharpe Eastman recently announced the winners of its 2015-16 Teaching Assistant Prizes for Excellence in Teaching. Their names, the classes they led, and their degrees are (from left to right): Benjamin Baker Theory Aural Skills Doctor of Philosophy in Theory Aaron Grant Written Theory Doctor of Philosophy in Theory Peter Folliard Basic…
By John Fatuzzo The Eastman School of Music is proud to recognize its four recently awarded Fulbright scholars: Dominic Giardino, Bridget Kinneary, Bailey Paugh, and Katherine Tepper. The four Eastman recipients are among ten from the University of Rochester that will be pursuing scholarly opportunities abroad. The Fulbright competition is sponsored by the U.S. Department…
Eastman Harmonie (photo credit: Kaila Delany) By John Fatuzzo From May 25 to June 5, Eastman Wind Ensemble Harmonie will be touring Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic, with planned performances in in Salzburg, Vienna, Prague, Pilsen, Bayreuth, and Wurzburg. A subset of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Harmonie is a wind octet: 2 oboes, 2…
ESP and CKL: the members of the Eastman Saxophone Ensemble with their director, Professor Chien-Kwan Lin By John Fatuzzo This July, the Eastman Saxophone Project will be traveling for two weeks to perform in China. The group departs from Rochester on July 9 for Shanghai, where they will be performing at the annual Shanghai Sax…
This Friday, April 29 at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, the Eastman-Rochester Chorus, Eastman Chorale, and Eastman Philharmonia, all under the school’s Director of Choral Activities, William Weinert, with baritone Alan Cline and soprano Yvonne Trobe, present one of the great works for chorus and orchestra: Ralph Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony.…