The Faculty Artist Series presents Eastman Virtuosi Saturday, on April 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. This performance features Eastman faculty members Richard Killmer, oboe, Kenneth Grant, clarinet, George Sakakeeny, bassoon, Peter Kurau, french horn, Marina Lomazov, piano, Anne Harrow, piccolo, Renée Jolles, violin, George Taylor, viola, Guy…
The Faculty Artist Series presents Eastman Professor of Violin Mikhail Kopelman at the Eastman School of Music, Sunday, April 7 at 3:00 p.m., in Kilbourn Hall. The program consists Smetana’s From the Homeland, Kodály’s Duo for Violin and Cello, and Shostakovich’s Piano Trio, Op. 67. This program also features Steven Doane, cello, Anna Gourfinkel, piano,…
The Eastman School of Music’s Faculty Artist Series presents Guy Johnston, Associate Professor of Cello and Chiao-Wen Cheng, Assistant Professor of Accompanying, on Tuesday, April 16 at 7:30 p.m., in Kilbourn Hall. The program consists of Beethoven’s Seven Variations on ‘Bei Männern, welche Lieber fühlen,’ Britten’s Sonata in C, Op. 65, and Schumann’s Andante und…
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.) Eastman School of Music presents Disney in Concert: A Silly Symphony Celebration (foxrochester.com 03/05/2019) The Eastman School of Music announces Disney in…
Capturing a definitive performance of one’s work can be a challenging task for even the most seasoned professional musicians. But for the Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media department (JCM) at the Eastman School of Music, the recording process has always been a crucial component of the learning process. For the past five years, the department…
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.) Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines (The New York Times 03/02/2019) And it’s difficult to imagine anyone else…
The Eastman-Ranlet Series bring the Elias String Quartet Sunday, March 24, at 3 p.m., in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. Taking its name from Mendelssohn’s oratorio, Elijah, of which Elias is the German form, the group has seen global success. Their program includes: Henry Purcell’s Fantasia in E Minor, Z. 741 and…
The Kilbourn Concert Series announces American cellist, Joshua Roman to perform in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music on Tuesday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. Repertoire will include Debussy’s Cello Sonata, Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 3, Op. 69, Louange á l’Éternité de Jésus by Oliver Messiaen, Fairy Tale by Leoš Janáček, Brothers by…
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.) New Sounds from Eastman’s OSSIA (WXXI News 02/24/2019) A group of students at the Eastman School of Music wants to expand the…
Put Eastman School of Music’s world-class string quartet-in-residence, the Ying Quartet, together in a room with Rochester’s award-winning masters of motion theatre, PUSH Physical Theatre, and what do you get? “Creative Collision is what we’re calling it,” says PUSH Co-Founder/Co-Director Darren Stevenson. “It’s something that can happen only when both groups are fully open to…