Meet The Cantante Quartet: The 2024-25 Celentano String Quartet Award Recipient
The Cantante Quartet, which “exemplifies the best of chamber music at Eastman,” will present a concert on Friday, March 7 at 6:30 PM in Hatch Recital Hall.
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Eastman School of Music Announces Two Jazz Faculty Members and Endowed Concert Series
Eastman is proud to announce the appointments of Otis Brown III and Marshall Gilkes to the Jazz & Contemporary Media faculty, alongside a newly endowed concert series.
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Yunxin (Dorothy) Nie
Congratulations to Yunxin (Dorothy) Nie for winning the Neva Stevens Pilgrim Award at the Civic Morning Musicals 48th Annual Competition for Singers, taking home a $500 prize. The competition was held on February 8 in Syracuse, NY. Dorothy is a second-year, undergraduate soprano from the studio of Professor Kathryn Cowdrick.
Evan Martschenko
Congratulations to Evan Martschenko, a first-year PhD Theory student, for publishing an article in Music Theory Online, one of the discipline’s top peer-reviewed journals. Evan’s article, “‘Feel the Emptiness’: Micro-Schemata in the Music of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki,” demonstrates that a few key threads define Górecki’s compositional language even as his style ranged from Polish sonorism…
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Friends of Eastman Opera Competition Finalists 2025
Announcing this year’s finalists in the annual Friends of Eastman Opera Competition, taking place on February 21, 2025 in Kilbourn Hall.
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Highlighted Eastman Concerts & Events: March 2025
Highlighted concerts & events coming to Eastman next month!
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Jason Treuting ’99E
Congratulations to Sō Percussion including Jason Treuting ’99E for winning Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance in the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.’s 67th GRAMMY Awards that took place on Sunday, February 2, 2025. Jason earned his Bachelors in Music and the Performer’s Certificate at Eastman where he studied percussion with John Beck…
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Winners of Eastman’s songSLAM
Eastman’s songSLAM took place Saturday, February 1, with a standing-room only crowd in Sproull Atrium! Hosted by Associate Professor of Vocal Coaching Alison d’Amato and co-founder of Sparks and Wiry Cries Martha Guth, the celebration of new song works premiered fourteen composer-performer teams with a wide range of styles, texts, and duo collaborations. Winners were…
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Eastman School of Music Faculty and Alumni Win in the 67th GRAMMY Awards
Many congratulations to all members of the Eastman community who were winners in the 67th GRAMMY Awards on Sunday, February 2, 2025.
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Travon D. Walker ’21E and Noah Sesling ’22E
Tenor Travon D. Walker ’21E has joined IMG Artists’ roster for general management, where he will be represented by Associate Artist Manager, Noah Sesling ’22E. Travon, a current second-year young artist at The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, graduated from Eastman with a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance. Noah, also…
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