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.)
For Mark Isaacs all that matters is the music
(The Age 01/16/2018)
After studying at the Sydney Conservatorium and New York State’s Eastman School of Music he went on to write for TV and film and for ensembles ranging from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to Synergy. Among his output he has written symphonies, concertos, piano preludes, theatre scores, …
(RIT University News Services 01/15/2018)
Eastman School of Music student Jonathan Rhodes performed at RIT’s first Let Freedom Ring: Commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration today. RIT students, faculty and staff assembled in Ingle Auditorium for a program honoring King’s life and work on his birthday. Next Thursday, Jan.
Eastman Wind Ensemble to perform Feb. 5
(Monroe County Post 01/10/2018)
Eastman Wind Ensemble will perform with jazz saxophonist James Carter at 8 p.m. on Feb. 5 in Kodak Hall at Eastman School of Music, 26 Gibbs St., Rochester. The program will include Roberto … “I look forward to the fresh energy at Eastman,” Carter said. “Being able to reiterate what this piece has …
Helen Pridmore and friends to perform the experimental music of John Cage and Earle Brown
(Seattle Times 01/12/2018)
She ultimately earned her doctorate at the prestigious Eastman School of Music. There, she discovered “new” scored, experimental and improvised music, along with what she calls “extended vocal techniques,” taking her classically-trained voice into new territory. “I’m very interested in exploring beauty,” …
Musical career leads OHS grad to the Great Pyramid and beyond
(Kendall County Now 1/11/2018)
One day after Christmas, Stephanie Quinn jetted off to China with the South Shore Orchestra for a cultural exchange concert tour,…
Quinn, a violinist, violist and pianist who trained at the Fine Arts Building Studios in Chicago, the Eastman School of Music of New York, and the Juilliard School in New York, got her start in music at the age of 9, thanks to an elementary school teacher. John Bennett, the school’s band director, …
New organist to perform on harpsichord
(Mount Desert Islander 01/13/2018)
Daniel Pyle holds degrees from the University of Alabama and the Eastman School of Music. He also studied with Gustav Leonhardt and Hans van Nieuwkoop at the Sweelinck Conservatorium of Amsterdam. Admission to the concert is free, but donations are requested to benefit the Friends of Music at St.
Music @ New Canaan Library Presents Classical Guitarist Peter Fletcher
(HamletHub 1/12/2018)
Peter performs more than 100 concerts every year, has recorded several albums for the Centaur and Towerhill record labels, and is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music. Peter has toured the country performing at many prestigious venues such as the Firehouse Arts Center in the San Francisco …
Theater: Southern Lehigh grad performs in production of ‘Les Miserables’ in Philadelphia
(Allentown Morning Call 01/10/2018)
Well, the tour, back in Philadelphia at the Academy of Music for the first time since 2013, also features Matthew Moisey, a 2010 Southern Lehigh High School graduate, who … He went on to study classical voice at Eastman School of Music and work playing piano and composing and arranging music.
PABLO HERAS-CASADO RETURNS (Philadelphia Orchestra): Old and new
(Phindie 1/09/2018)
Samuel Jones, born in 1935, began his studies in his native Mississippi but later studied under Howard Hanson at the Eastman School of Music. He composed his Flute Concerto for principal flute Jeffrey Khaner, and wrote some extremely fast passages, solos in both the extreme top and lower registers …
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