Congratulations to Jacob Eichhorn, a PhD candidate in Music Theory, for winning the 2025 Dorothy Payne Award, named for alumna and legendary former Eastman professor Dorothy Payne β56E, β67E (MM), β74E (DMA). This award is given annually to the best student paper delivered at The Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic conference. Jacob’s winning paper…
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On March 20 and April 10, 2025, our Musicology Department welcomes two distinguished speakers to Eastman: Myrta Leslie Santana and David Burn.
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On Sunday, March 9, 2025 the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra in association with The Eastman Community Music School (ECMS) concludes its 2025 international tour with the concert βTruth to Power.β
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Congratulations to Isabel Chen for winning theΒ Fenimore Chamber OrchestraβsΒ first-ever nationally advertised Young Persons Concerto Competition. She will be featured in the Orchestraβs fourth concert of their 2024-2025 season on Saturday, March 15 at 3:00 PM at Christ Church Episcopal in Cooperstown, NY. Isabel is completing her final year towards receiving a Bachelorβs degree in Violin…
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There have been many significant accomplishments by women throughout ESM’s history. We celebrate some of the incredible βfirstsβ that have occurred in the last 100 years.
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Acclaimed artists Leonard Slatkin and Kelly Hall-Tompkins return to Eastman to perform Jeff Beal’s violin concerto “Body in Motion” with the Eastman Philharmonia.
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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 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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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.
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 MikoΕaj GΓ³recki,” demonstrates that a few key threads define GΓ³recki’s compositional language even as his style ranged from Polish sonorism…
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