ROCHESTER, NY – Zhe Tang, an Eastman School of Music doctoral candidate who studies with Professor of Piano Barry Snyder, received the silver medal in the First Grieg International Piano Competition – an intensive competition sponsored by the Norwegian State Academy of Music and the Oslo (Norway) Grieg Society. After competing in preliminary rounds against…
ROCHESTER, NY – This fall, the Eastman School of Music begins a new concert series designed to showcase its acclaimed faculty. Eastman’s new Faculty Artist Series kicks off at 3 p.m., Sunday, September 24, as Professor of Piano Natalya Antonova offers her sparkling interpretation of works by Schumann and Tchaikovsky. "This new series focuses a…
ROCHESTER, NY – Future students of the Eastman School of Music will benefit from a scholarship fund established with a $2.8 million bequest from the estate of alumna Edna McLaughlin, a former music teacher for the Rochester City School District who had a life-long dedication to music education. A native of Rochester, Miss McLaughlin graduated…
ROCHESTER, NY – The Eastman School of Music fared exceptionally well at the recent American Guild of Organists (AGO) national convention held earlier this month in Seattle. Doctoral candidate Ji-Yoen Choi, currently a student of Eastman Associate Professor of Organ David Higgs, was the first-prize winner in the National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance…
ROCHESTER, NY – Felice Kuan, a 16-year-old from Menands, NY, was named the first-place winner last night in the Eastman School of Music’s Fourth Annual Young Artists International Piano Competition. This competition for students ages 14-18 is part of Eastman’s Summer Piano Festival, and attracted 27 competitors from around the world. As top winner, Kuan…
ROCHESTER, NY – The late opera singer, recitalist, and folklorist Dorothea Dix Lawrence (1899-1979) will be the subject of an upcoming lecture at the Eastman School of Music titled "Musically Mapping America: The Career of Dorothea Dix Lawrence." The presentation is at 7 p.m. Thursday, August 3, in Howard Hanson Hall at the School, 26…
ROCHESTER, NY — A gift of $3,263,000 from the Catherine Filene Shouse Foundation will go to the Eastman School of Music to support and extend the School’s innovative Arts Leadership Program. The funding, which will be given over three years, is the foundation’s first endowment grant as well as the largest single grant ever received…
ROCHESTER, NY – The Eastman School of Music announces the following new faculty appointments: Hans Davidsson will be taking a position on the organ faculty in January 2001. Davidsson is founder and director of the Göteborg Organ Art center (GOArt), an international center for research in performance practice and historical instrument building. He also is…
ROCHESTER, NY – Again this year, singers of all ages and abilities are invited to take part in five Eastman-Rochester "Summer Sings," a series of choral music reading sessions presented by the Eastman School of Music. Held on Tuesday evenings in Kilbourn Hall (26 Gibbs St.) beginning at 7:30 p.m. (with a 6:30 p.m. read-through),…
ROCHESTER, NY – It may be summer, but School and great music are in session at the Eastman School of Music. The School’s Community Education Division (CED) presents its annual summer concert series, as well as several other concerts connected to its Summer Session programs and workshops. The concerts – which range from classical to…