Four trombone students have been chosen to represent the Eastman School of Music in a concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, March 31. The Amendous Quartet is made up of Ben Dettelback, Nick Crane, Jack Courtright, and Gabriel Ramos, all Bachelor’s of music students at Eastman. Their performance…
Marina Lomazov, an internationally renowned concert pianist whose New York debut performance was called “dazzling” by the New York Times chief music critic, Anthony Tommasini, will join the Eastman School of Music as Professor of Piano in the fall of 2018. Subsequent to winning prizes in numerous competitions, including the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, the William…
Rachel Roberts has been appointed to the faculty of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester as the inaugural director of its new Master of Arts in Music Leadership degree program. Roberts, who has been the Director of the Entrepreneurial Musicianship Department at the New England Conservatory of Music since 2009, holds degrees…
Several graduates of the Eastman School of Music have received nominations in the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.’s 60th GRAMMY Awards: In Category 62, Best Instrumental Composition: features two Alum as part of the JACK Quartet; Christopher Otto (BA06 BM06), John Pickford Richards (BM02 MM04) for Alkaline (Le Boeuf Brothers & JACK Quartet)…
Joint Concert with The Eastman Wind Orchestra and Fairport High School Concert Band Showcases Community Connections By Jessica Kaufman, Assistant Director of Content and Public Relations Mark Scatterday, professor of conducting and chair of the Conducting and Ensembles Department at Eastman School of Music, has a long history of active involvement in the Rochester community…
Appeal to Upcoming Concert with Guest Composer Austrian composer Bernhard Gander, hailed for music that contains crossover appeal to heavy metal and punk rock fans, will be a guest at Eastman School of Music’s Musica Nova for the ensemble’s concert at 8 p.m. Thursday November 9, in Kilbourn Hall. Born in Lienz, Gander studied at…
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Walker ʼ56 (DMA) will receive the honorary degree Doctor of Music during the Eastman School of Music’s commencement ceremony at 11:15 a.m. Sunday, May 20, in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, for students receiving their bachelor’s and master’s degrees. This year’s commencement ceremonies at the University of Rochester also feature award…
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Internationally renowned violinist Zvi Zeitlin, who performed with and cemented friendships with some of the greatest artists of the 20th century, and who was a beloved teacher and Distinguished Professor of Violin at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, died Wednesday, May 2, of complications due to pneumonia. …
The benefit concert series “If Music Be the Food…” will conclude its third season with an exciting program of chamber music at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Road (at East Avenue) in Rochester, on Friday evening, May 11, 2012 at 7:30 PM. “If Music Be the Food…” was created and launched in 2009 by…
Eastman School of Music master’s degree student Matthew Grills, who was a winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions last month, was awarded First Prize in the finals of the Lotte Lenya Competition on Saturday, April 21. The top prize in the competition, which is sponsored by the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music in New York City,…