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.) Hidden treasure in walls of Eastman School of Music (WXXI News 05/24/2019) There is a hidden treasure in the walls of the…
The Eastman School of Music welcomes Kate Lee and Forrest O’Connor Band with Chris Wilson for a One Night Only special event on Wednesday, July 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall. Americana duo Kate Lee and Forrest O’Connor have earned national recognition as co-lead singers and primary songwriters of the O’Connor Band, a bluegrass group they…
Eastman School of Music to establish professorship honoring Paul Burgett (WXXI News 05/15/2019) An anonymous gift will establish a professorship at the Eastman School of Music honoring the legacy of Paul Burgett, who died last year. Burgett was a … (Also reported by 13WHAM-TV, Rochester Business Journal, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, Hollywood Aggregator, Optimal…
Highly accomplished researcher and music theorist Elizabeth (Betsy) West Marvin, ’81E (MA), ’89E (PhD) has been named the inaugural recipient of the Minehan Family Professorship at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. Announced at Eastman’s 2019 Commencement ceremony, this endowed professorship, part of a five-million-dollar commitment to Eastman, was created by Cathy E. Minehan…
Jim Doser, Director, Institute for Music Leadership jdoser@esm.rochester.edu ; (585) 274-1470 How have leaders in Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Nashville leveraged their arts and creative assets to revitalize their cities, and how can this be relevant to Rochester? A two-day symposium gives the Rochester community the opportunity to hear five leaders from these…
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.) URMC, Eastman School to Study Music as Medicine (Spectrum News 05/06/2019) Music and medicine are meshing at the Rochester region’s largest hospital…
Eastman Community Music School (ECMS) is pleased to announce that it will, for the first time, host its own stage at the annual Fairport Canal Days (FCD) Festival on Saturday, June 1 and Sunday, June 2. The Eastman Community Music School has been an integral part of the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester,…
On Monday, May 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Kodak Hall, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, under its director Mark Davis Scatterday, will present its final concert of the academic year. The concert features two Eastman alumni as soloists: Chien-Kwan Lin, currently Associate Professor of Saxophone at Eastman; and flutist Jessica Sindell, assistant principal flutist of the…
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.) Combining medicine and the performing arts in a new UR collaboration (WXXI News 05/02/2019) The Eastman School of Music is teaming up…
For media only: Media contact, University of Rochester Medical Center: Reagan McNameeKing (585-276-6085, Reagan_mcnameeking@urmc.rochester.edu) The Eastman School of Music and University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) have unveiled a collaboration that’s laying a foundation for clinicians, artists and researchers to innovate connections between health and the arts. The new initiative, Eastman Performing Arts Medicine…