Eastman School of Music Posts and Musings

An Eastman Professor Remembers Queen Elizabeth II

During September and early October, Eastman’s Associate Professor of Cello Guy Johnston  ’03E is performing as a concerto soloist with The HallĂ© and directing the Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival in his native England. Like many other British natives, he was profoundly affected by the death of Queen Elizabeth II on September, and offered us…

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Wellness at Eastman: Musicians’ Hearing Health Q&A

Wellness at Eastman is a monthly seminar series from Eastman Performing Arts Medicine (EPAM) featuring artists and clinicians speaking to physical and mental wellness for performing artists, inspired by the Healthy Conservatoires movement in Europe.    The next Wellness at Eastman seminar will be on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, at 6 p.m: Musicians’ Hearing Health Q&A: Evaluations,…

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An Alumnus Brings Summer Opera to Eastman

This July and August, the familiar summer sounds of Eastman – which this year have included flute and trombone workshops and a number of chamber and solo recitals – have also included opera, as participants in the Finger Lakes Opera have performed in concerts and recitals to celebrate the organization’s tenth anniversary. The company’s Young…

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“Profoundly Nurturing”: School Historian Vincent Lenti records the Robert Freeman years at Eastman

  Robert Freeman, shown during a return engagement in 2006, whose “absolutely tireless” leadership and initiatives still resonate at our school. Eastman’s School Historian, Vincent Lenti, recently published the third volume of his history of our school. In this excerpt from Nurturing the Love of Music: Robert Freeman and the Eastman School of Music (Meliora…

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ECMS presents a musical tribute to a beloved teacher

This weekend, Eastman students, faculty members, and alumni will join together to pay tribute to Jane GĂŒnter-McCoy ‘59E, who taught voice from 1987 to 2010 in Eastman’s Community Music School, and who died in October 2021. (Her husband Seth McCoy was also a longtime Eastman voice faculty member, from 1982 until his death in 1997.)…

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Still learning at the library: Sibley’s Jon Sauceda

Jonathan Sauceda just completed his first academic year as Associate Dean and Head of the Sibley Music Library. It has been a very full year. As head of the library, he oversees all aspects of the library’s programs and services, including collection development, personnel management, budget management, technical services, client services, and library technology development.…

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