This year at Eastman, about 330 students are enrolled in chamber music groups. Most perform this weekend in Eastman’s Chamber Music Extravaganza, a multiday chamber music festival where audience members can spend full days catching a variety of chamber groups. The concerts primarily take place in the acoustically brilliant and intimate Hatch Recital Hall and…
When bass-baritone singer Jan Opalach came to the Eastman School of Music 15 years ago, he had been a principal opera singer with the New York City Opera for 30 years. New York City Opera at the time was going through fiscal troubles (and eventually folded) and coming to Eastman “just dovetailed into what had…
When Wegman Family Professor of Violin Renée Jolles first came to Eastman as a faculty member in 2013, she was surprised to find a lack of Rochester-area concerts that observe Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). She launched an annual Holocaust Remembrance Day concert in 2014 at the Eastman School of Music to pay tribute to…
“A lot of you are not meant to watch me, you’re meant to go in your own flow,” says Georgia Mills, a doctoral contemporary conducting candidate at the Eastman School of Music, to Eastman’s Musica Nova ensemble during a recent rehearsal. The work, Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto, a seminal work of the twentieth century, expands and…
March is Women’s History Month, a chance to reflect upon and celebrate the contributions and achievements of women throughout history. Women have significantly contributed to the Eastman School of Music and this month we honor the long history of women who have impacted the Sibley Music Library, one of the crown jewels of both Eastman…
The Eastman Wind Ensemble invites another guest performer for its upcoming concert on Wednesday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall: Patrick Morgan, the principal clarinetist of the “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band. This time, the Eastman connection is traced to doctoral conducting assistant Andres Luke Camarillo. The concert marks Camarillo’s final…
“Why would Florencia open her arms?” asks director Octavio Cardenas in a recent rehearsal of Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas, the first Spanish language opera to be performed by the Eastman Opera Theatre. The opera will run Thursday through Sunday, March 30 to April 2, in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. He instructs the…
Damselfly is a soprano voice, flute, and harp trio based in the United States and Switzerland dedicated to the music of contemporary composers. Professor of Composition and Chair of the Composition Department Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon met the performers while directing the soundSCAPE music festival in Italy. He has since written and transcribed works for the trio,…
Eastman School of Music, of the University of Rochester, is pleased to announce a special performance in the Eastman Presents concert series: Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine (Lviv). Presented in collaboration with RocMaidan and the Ukrainian Federal Credit Union (UFCU), the orchestra will perform in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, January 31, 2023, at…