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.)

Finalists Announced For The International Collegiate Singing Championship

(Broadway World 11/30/2018) 

The 2019 American Vocal Arts International Collegiate Singing Championship finalists are: 

Achilles Leonidas Bezanis, Tenor … School: Eastman School of Music … Teacher: Robert Swensen

Laura Sanders, Soprano … School: Eastman School of Music … Teacher: Katherine Ciesinski 

Frederick Douglass biographer, long-lost song featured Monday

(Democrat and Chronicle 11/29/2018) 

The University of Rochester recently acquired the sheet music of the song, one of only two copies known to exist. It will be sung by Eastman School of Music tenor Jonathan Rhodes with pianist Lee Wright in what archivists guess will be the first public performance in a century. … 

Jazz pianist Danilo Perez visits Rochester

(Fox Rochester 11/28/2018) 

Grammy-winning jazz pianist Danilo Perez is in town, visiting the Eastman School of Music today and tomorrow. Perez is part of a jazz forum this … 

JAZZ | Danilo Pérez and the Eastman Jazz Ensemble

(City Newspaper 11/28/2018) 

When Grammy Award-winning pianist Danilo Pérez combines his Panamanian musical roots with Latin American folk music and jazz, and adds European classical and African strains, the result is a distinctive, worldly stew. Pérez enhanced the bands of Wayne Shorter, Wynton Marsalis, and many others. When he joins the , he’ll be performing his own tunes and Panamanian standards, all arranged by ensemble director Bill Dobbins. In addition to the Thursday evening concert, Pérez will also discuss music and social justice at 10:30 a.m. and give a master class at 12:45 p.m. earlier that day. All events are free. 

$1 Million Donated To The Royal Conservatory’s Rebanks Family Fellowship Program

(Broadway World 11/29/2018) 

Nikki Joshi, percussion (Stafford, Virginia) – Nikki is the first percussionist accepted into The Rebanks Family Fellowship Program. She received a Master’s Degree from McGill University, and also studied with Michael Burritt at the Eastman School of Music. She has worked on numerous world premieres of works and has collaborated closely with leading composers in the contemporary field, including Jo Kondo and Georg Friedrich Haas. 

Renee Anne Louprette

(Rochester Business Journal 11/29/2018) 

The Rochester Celebrity Organ Recital Series, in collaboration with the Eastman School of Music, opens the season with organist Renee Anne Louprette tonight. RCOS is administered by the Rochester AGO Chapter, partnering with Eastman, WXXI and various local churches. …

“Songs of Mothers” this holiday

(RochesterFirst 11/26/2018) 

The Genesee Valley Orchestra and Chorus will present “Songs of Mothers, Families and Children” this … 

The forty-third GVOC season will include a collaboration with Eastman Community Music School‘s Children’s Choir and Youth Chamber Singers. “We start a year-long collaboration with the Eastman Community Music middle school and high school choirs,” said Duffy of the performance. “We kickoff this November 30 show with them joining us. It’s going to be a really wonderful collaboration. We’re going to mix it up a little bit and show how our collaboration strengthens the community.” … 

Pittsford Community Library announces December programs

(Monroe County Post 11/29/2018) 

In Concert: Dimsum Trio … Dimsum Trio is a piano trio comprised of graduate students at the Eastman School of Music. Works presented will include Mozart’s charming C Major piano trio and Shostakovich’s brutal second piano trio. 

Society for Chamber Music to present ‘Mozart in France’

(Monroe County Post 11/26/2018) 

Audience members can get an inside look at the repertoire with a pre-concert talk at 3:30 p.m. with artistic directors and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra musicians Juliana Athayde and Erik Behr. …

SCMR board member David Temperley, professor of music theory at the Eastman School of Music, will join the pre-concert chats for the rest of the season. …

 

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