Here are some select clippings from the past week showing the variety of hits/mentions identifying musicians and scholars as Eastman School of Music alumni, faculty or students. Note: Some links may have expired.) Sunday’s Grammy winners included works featuring RPO, super-producer Bob Ludwig (WXXI News 01/26/2020) The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Ward Stare, and…
An evening of Debussy premieres, curated by Eastman School of Music’s Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Music Theory, Marie Rolf, will have a special preview at Eastman on Sunday, February 23, at 7:00 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall. Featured performers at this event include soprano Susannah Stewart, a current graduate student…
The Eastman-Ranlet Series presents the Schumann Quartet Sunday, February 23, at 3 p.m., in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. Their program includes: Mozart’s Quartet in D Major, K. 499 “Hoffmeister”, Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op. 117, and Mendelssohn’s Quartet in E minor, Op. 44, No. Born into a family of…
The Kilbourn Concert Series announces Avi Avital and Bridget Kibbey, performing on mandolin and harp respectively, in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music on Thursday, February 20th at 7:30 p.m. The program is comprised entirely of their imaginative arrangements of music by J.S. and C.P.E. Bach, Falla, Marc Lavry. Tchaikovsky, and Rodrigo. Bridget…
The internationally renowned, award-winning Ying Quartet is back for its first performance of the 2019-20 season on Sunday, February 2, at 3 p.m., in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. The program will include Franz Schubert’s Quartettsatz, D 703, Kevin Puts’ Dark Vigil (1999), and Schubert’s String Quartet No. 15 in G Major,…
Here are some select clippings from the past week showing the variety of hits/mentions identifying musicians and scholars as Eastman School of Music alumni, faculty or students. Note: Some links may have expired.) Jazz At Lincoln Center Announces Inaugural Jack Rudin Jazz Championship Top-Placing Band Programs (Broadway World 01/20/2020) OUTSTANDING TROMBONE SECTION: EASTMAN SCHOOL OF…
Contact: Mimi Hwang, Artistic Director: 585-615-0033; mhwang@esm.rochester.edu Media only: Katey Padden, (585) 274-1052, Mobile (585) 451-8492, kpadden@esm.rochester.edu “If Music Be the Food…,” the chamber music series benefiting Rochester’s Foodlink, will present its second concert of Season 11 on Sunday, January 26 at 7:30 p.m. at Third Presbyterian Church, 4 Meigs Street. Admission to the…
On Wednesday, January 29th at 7:30 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall, Eastman Presents and The Barbara B. Smith World Music Series welcome the Zhou Family Band. Hailing from Lingbi in the Anhui Province of central eastern China, The Zhou Family Band takes pride in being the loudest orchestra at any festival! Playing traditional wind and…
Here are some select recent clippings showing the variety of hits/mentions identifying musicians and scholars as Eastman School of Music alumni, faculty or students. (Note: Some links may have expired.) Eastman Opera to present double-bill (Monroe County Post 12/23/2019) Eastman Opera Theatre will continue its season with the double-bill of Salieri’s “Prima la musica e…
Here are some select recent clippings showing the variety of hits/mentions identifying musicians and scholars as Eastman School of Music alumni, faculty or students. (Note: Some links may have expired.) Kobrin brings depth and tonal glow to Zankel recital (New York Classical Review 12/20/2019) Kobrin has been teaching for most of this century, and is…