The following guest post was written by Betsy Pilon, BM ’15. Thanks Betsy! *********** With graduation in less than a month, and my move out date looming in the all-too-near future, I’m already beginning to miss my time at Eastman. I’m excited to move on and continue my education in vocal performance and opera; I’m…
DetailsAndrew’s recital poster, designed by Karen Ver Steeg On Thursday, April 2, I had my senior recital. For most, that day was simply Rochester’s first nice Thursday of the year; for me it was terrifying — but exciting. Nothing can really prepare you to go out there and, in culmination of four years of hard…
Details(Here are some select recent clippings 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.) From the community: Schola Antiqua to Perform at Cantigny Park (Chicago Tribune © 04/07/2015) Founded in 2000, Schola Antiqua is a professional vocal ensemble dedicated to…
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On Sunday, April 12, at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music faculty members and students will perform works by select Jewish composers to mark Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). This program will include powerful works by Gideon Klein, Wladyslaw Szpilman, Erwin Schulhoff, and Paul Schoenfield which honor those who perished, those who…
DetailsWith reluctance, the Voice and Opera Department announces the retirement of Steve Crowley after almost 30 years as Eastman Opera Theatre’s Technical Director/Producer. Steve joined Eastman Opera Theatre in September 1985, working with Richard Pearlman, after a varied career with Trinity Repertory Theater in Providence, Rhode Island, American Place Theater in New York, and other…
DetailsNed Rorem’s Our Town, the opera based on the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Thornton Wilder, opens in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre tonight and runs through the weekend. Eastman Opera Theatre’s production is the first in upstate New York since the opera’s professional debut at the Lake George Opera in July of 2006. Wilder’s…
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The Third Thursday Concert with Eastman’s Italian Baroque Organ series will feature “Organ and Cello” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16, at the Memorial Art Gallery. Students from the Eastman School of Music will present works by Bach, Frescobaldi, Gabrielli, Geminiani, Pasquini, and Vivaldi. Performers include Glenna Curren and Matt Zucker, who will play baroque…
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Pianist Leonard Otis Hayes, this year’s recipient of the annual scholarship awarded by the Rochester, New York Chapter, The Links, Incorporated, to an Eastman School of Music student, will present a recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 26, in Kilbourn Hall. The award, a cooperative effort between the Rochester, New York Chapter, The Links, Incorporated,…
Details(Here are some select recent clippings 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.) Breaking Boxes SoundExChange (City Newspaper 04/01/2015) At its very core, Sound ExChange is a group of seven young Eastman graduates who are looking for new ways…
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