Matt Stuver of the Eastman School of Music was named the best Graduate College Jazz Soloist in DownBeat magazine’s 34th Annual Student Music Awards. A doctoral student in saxophone, Stuver was recognized for his performance in the U.S. premiere of “Suite for Soprano Saxophone and 16 Instruments,” a work by legendary composer-arranger and jazz artist…
Emmy Award-winning composer Jeff Beal, a graduate of the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, will be the Commencement Speaker for Eastman’s graduation ceremonies on Sunday, May 15, and will receive the School’s Distinguished Alumnus Award. In addition, Eastman School faculty member Jonathan Baldo will receive the University’s Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence…
Sibley Music Library of the Eastman School of Music has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access Award of $300,000 to support its continuing efforts to digitize music scores in the public domain. This is the second NEH grant that the Library has received for the project, which provides free online access…
A series of free concerts from Monday, May 16, through Tuesday, May 24, will cap this year’s activities by ensembles in the New Horizons Program of the Eastman Community Music School. New Horizons is an adult music education program offering instruction and musical ensembles for instrumentalists and vocalists. The program is open to anyone, from…
Last year, during the inaugural season of a new benefit concert series entitled “If Music Be the Food . . .”, Eastman School of Music faculty and students, members of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and guest musicians helped to raise $575 and 781 pounds of food for Rochester’s Foodlink. The first two concerts of Season Two…
Building on a cultural exchange and collaboration launched in 2009, faculty members from the China Conservatory in Beijing will be visiting the Eastman School of Music and performing a free public concert. Scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26, at the University of Rochester’s Interfaith Chapel, the concert features traditional Chinese music performed on…
Rochester audiences will experience a colorful program of traditional and newly composed musical works for Balinese gamelan as the Eastman School of Music’s Gamelan Lila Muni presents its annual concert. This year’s concert will also feature the Harley Community Gamelan Angklung Ensemble and the Harley Children’s Gamelan Angklung Ensemble. Translated as “orchestra of heavenly sound,”…
The Eastman Percussion Ensemble will represent the Eastman School of Music in the prestigious Conservatory Project at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, April 28, at 6 p.m. The program will open with Edgar Varese’s groundbreaking work Ionization, the first concert hall composition for percussion ensemble in…
This year’s recipient of an annual scholarship awarded by the Rochester, New York Chapter, The Links, Incorporated, to an Eastman School of Music student will present a recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 17, in the School’s Kilbourn Hall. Alex Gonzalez, a violinist in the studio of Professor Oleh Krysa, received the award, which is…
A Japanese legend promises that folding 1,000 paper cranes makes a wish come true. At the Eastman School of Music this Friday, April 1, members of the School’s community will show their support and raise funds for the victims of the earthquake in Japan with a “Day of One Thousand Cranes.” The event, which will…