by Raffi Wright Instructor of Opera Lindsay Warren Baker has been part of Eastman’s Voice and Opera Department since 2001. She teaches a variety of acting and movement classes and is a key member of Eastman Opera Theatre’s production team. We are thrilled that she has developed “Acting and Embodiment for Singers” for Summer@Eastman! This…
By Raffi Wright Summer@Eastman is excited to welcome a new brass institute to our roster in 2022: the Eastman Summer Tuba & Euphonium Institute. Eastman alumnus Scott Tegge (Chicago-based performer and tuba/euphonium instructor at Northern Illinois University and the University of Illinois) joins Eastman faculty members Don Harry and Mark Kellogg in this week-long program…
By Raffi Wright Looking forward to Summer at Eastman 2022, I sat down with Eastman alumnae Hannah Dick (percussion) and Mina Esary (composition), who will be teaching their new online course “Notes From Scratch: Introduction to Improvisation and Composition.” Here are some highlights of our time talking together: For both Hannah and Mina:…
By Raffi Wright Eastman alumna Dr. Yoshiko Arahata ’11E, ’18E (DMA) is a pianist, educator, improviser, and composer. In addition to her many and varied musical collaborations, she has also developed expertise in dance accompaniment, performing with several dance companies in the Rochester area. Her new course The Pianist’s Guide to Dance Accompaniment was created…
When composer Ania Vu ’17E first heard about the Eastman Centennial Celebration “100 Concerts to Celebrate 100 Years”, she forwarded the website to pianist Eunmi Ko ’06E (MM), ’12E (DMA), to which Eunmi replied with “We should do something!” Fast-forward seven months: the two are about to have their project The Music She Writes begin…
“If Music Be the Food…,” the chamber music series benefiting Rochester’s Foodlink, will close its thirteenth season with a live concert on Sunday, April 3 at 7:30 p.m. from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Road 14607. The mission of “If Music Be the Food…” is to increase awareness and support food insecurity in the…
Wellness at Eastman is a monthly seminar series from Eastman Performing Arts Medicine (EPAM) featuring artists and clinicians speaking to physical and mental wellness for performing artists. Inspired by the Healthy Conservatoires movement in Europe, presentation topics this year include: the benefits of warming up and cooling down; peak performance on stage, nutrition’s effect on performing; incorporating mindfulness…
When Emma Gierszal, a DMA student in percussion performance and a member of the Eastman Percussion Ensemble, chose a paper topic for a seminar in Nineteenth-century American Music taught by Professor Michael Anderson, it led her down an interesting path. Emma’s interest in ragtime, and some advice from Professor Anderson, led her to the Sibley…
Next week, from March 21 through March 25, Eastman will once again host a Women in Music Festival, after an eight-year hiatus, as part of our centennial celebration. “WMF”, conceived and directed by Assistant Professor Sylvie Beaudette, was an annual, and ever-growing, event at Eastman from 2005 to 2014. This “celebration of women in all…
For Women’s History Month in March – and in observance of today’s International Women’s Day – we’ve chosen several women from the long list of outstanding women in Eastman history … representing the past, present, and future. (And remember that you can enjoy the work of many more women composers, performers, and scholars during Eastman’s…