ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Several hundred acclaimed violists from around the world — a who’s who of current and former orchestra principals, prominent soloists and chamber musicians, educators and “rising star” students — descend on the Eastman School of Music May 30 to June 3 for the 40th International Viola Congress. Over five days, they’ll perform some 20 group…
Renowned pianist Joseph Kalichstein, who’s won acclaim throughout the United States and Europe as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician, will hold a master class at the Eastman School of Music from noon to 2 p.m. on Friday, April 20, in Hatch Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Kalichstein…
This year’s Eastman School of Music student recipient of the annual Rochester, New York Chapter, The Links, Incorporated scholarship will present a recital at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 29, in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. Sterling Tyler, a violist in the studio of Professor George Taylor, received the award, a cooperative…
Two Eastman School of Music singers, recent Metropolitan Opera competition winner and graduate student Matthew Grills and alumna Natalie Ballenger, are among the 12 singer-actors in the finals of the 2012 Lotte Lenya Competition, which will be held Saturday, April 21, in Eastman’s Kilbourn Hall. The contestants will compete for top prizes of $15,000, $10,000,…
The culmination of a project by internationally acclaimed visual artist Anna Schuleit and four Eastman School of Music composers will be seen and heard on the stage of the School’s Hatch Recital Hall on Tuesday, April 17, at 8 p.m. Room for Five represents the collaboration between Schuleit and composers Rachel Seah, Anthony Duarte, Stylianos…
David Craighead, a legendary Eastman School of Music faculty organist who balanced an impressive career in teaching and performing, died Monday, March 26, in Rochester, N.Y. He was 88 years old. Professor Craighead joined the Eastman faculty in 1955 and served as Professor of Organ and Chair of the Organ Division of the Keyboard Department…
American pianist Simone Dinnerstein, whose self-produced recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations received critical acclaim and made a number of “Best of 2007” lists including those of The New York Times and New Yorker, will perform in the Kilbourn Concert Series at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, at the Eastman School of Music. The…
The critically acclaimed New York City-based Ensemble Signal will join Eastman School of Music new music ensembles Musica Nova and Ossia to present three major works by Steve Reich at Kilbourn Hall on Wednesday, April 11 at 8 p.m. The concert is part of a collaboration in which the students will work alongside Signal members…
Eastman School of Music student Matthew Grills was one of five winners of the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions after the Grand Finals Concert held this afternoon (Sunday, March 18) in New York City. He and the other four winners, who were chosen from nine finalists, each received a cash prize of $15,000. A second year master’s degree…