The Faculty Artist Series presents Guy Johnston, Associate Professor of Cello, with pianist Chiao-Wen Cheng on Monday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. They will perform an all-Beethoven program: Twelve Variations on a Theme from “Judas Maccabeus”; Twelve Variations on “Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen”; and Cello Sonatas…
The Eastman Piano Series announces Joyce Yang to perform in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music on Friday, March 20, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. Blessed with “poetic and sensitive pianism” (Washington Post) and a “wondrous sense of color” (San Francisco Classical Voice), Grammy nominated pianist Joyce Yang captivates audiences with her virtuosity, lyricism,…
The Eastman-Ranlet Series presents the Aizuri Quartet Sunday, March 29, at 3 p.m., in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. Through its engaging and thought-provoking programs, branded by The New York Times as “genuinely exciting” and “imaginative,” the The Aizuri Quartet has garnered critical acclaim for bringing “a technical bravado and emotional power”…
The Kodak Hall Concert Series announces Bobby McFerrin Wednesday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Eastman School of Music’s Kodak Hall. McFerrin’s exhilarating vocal vocabulary -call-and-response, global rhythms, soaring melodies, lush harmonies, funny noises, invented language, silence, prayers, and laughter—reminds us all of how much fun it is to be alive, to lift our voices,…
Nicole Cabell has been appointed to the Faculty of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester as Assistant Professor of Voice beginning in the fall of 2020. Cabell earned a Bachelor of Music from Eastman in 2001, and is currently Assistant Professor of Voice at DePaul University. Jamal J. Rossi, the Joan…
Media Contacts: Dolores Orman, Gateways Music Festival, 585-271-5185, dolores.orman@gmail.com Jessica Kaufman, Eastman School of Music, 585-274-1057, jkaufman@esm.rochester.edu After a highly successful 2019 season, Gateways Music Festival in association with Eastman School of Music, announced today it will become an annual event starting in the fall of 2020. A critically acclaimed series featuring world-class classical…
WindSync wind quintet will be at Eastman School of Music Tuesday, March 17 through Thursday, March 19 as part of the James E. Clark Chamber Music Residency. The members of WindSync include two Eastman alumni, as well as a third member who did graduate work at Eastman, making their success, and return to Eastman, a…
Eastman Cello Institute dress rehearsal. Photo credit: Gerry Szymanski. by Dr. Cora Swenson Lee Dr. Cora Swenson Lee is Director of the Eastman Cello Institute and Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Bucknell University. It’s hard to believe that the Eastman Cello Institute is heading into its fourth summer! In 2016, Professor Alan Harris…
Eastman School of Music welcomes back composer Stephen Hartke for a Spring residency from February 10 through 18, the second of the two scheduled this academic year. His residency includes having his Willow Run and Pacific Rim performed in an Eastman Wind Ensemble Concert on February 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Kodak Hall as well…