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.)
Lesson of a lifetime
(Delano.lu 01/29/2018)
When prolific American composer and musician Richard Lane passed away in 2004, his protégé, Demosthenes Dimitrakoulakos, or Demo, learned he had left the rights to his life’s work to him. …
Lane was born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1933. He studied at the prestigious Eastman school of music in New York …
Demo is publishing Lane’s works through Swiss publishers Editions Bim, who have already published 100 pieces. … Bim will shortly publish a biography of Lane’s life, written by Demo. What is more, all the money generated from bringing Lane’s life to a wider audience has been pooled into a scholarship in Lane’s name at Eastman School of music, which is today endowed. As for Demo, he is unlikely to stop when all of Lane’s works have been published.
Internationally acclaimed composer Maria Scheider rubs shoulders with Edmonton Jazz Orchestra
(St. Albert Gazette 01/27/2018)
After that, she studied music and composition at three universities including the Eastman School of Music with the great jazz composer Gil Evans. He showed her how classical writing and jazz could interface, and his influence made her focus on jazz. Schneider assembled an 18-piece jazz orchestra, …
(Argonaut 01/26/2018)
Ying confirmed Garrison’s news, jokingly informing the audience that the piece was new to the Ying Quartet as well. “We’ve never heard it before!” Ying said. The piece was composed by Christopher Theofanidis, a musician from Dallas, Texas, who studied at the Eastman School of Music where the Ying Quartet is in residency. …
Jeremy Siskind Trio in the Dunsmore Room, January 26
(Jazz Police 01/24/2018)
Armed with a substantial scholarship, Jeremy studied at the Eastman School of Music with Harold Danko, Tony Caramia and Bill Dobbins, earning his degree in Jazz Performance and Music Theory. He then earned a Master’s degree at Columbia in English and Comparative Literature, simultaneously …
Chicago Philharmonic Gives The Gift of Music This Valentine’s with A Mix-Tape Program
(Broadway World 01/25/2018)
Renée-Paule Gauthier, violin. An accomplished and sought after soloist, chamber musician, teacher, and orchestra leader, Gauthier has won awards in several competitions, … A graduate of the University of Montreal, the Eastman School of Music, and Northwestern University, she is currently is a member of the Chicago and Illinois Philharmonic orchestras, Elgin Symphony, is Principal Second Violin with the Northwest Indiana Symphony, plays with the Lyric Opera, and often …
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