Eastman News Highlights June 30, 2014
Here are some select clippings from the past week 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.) Orchestras Welcome Older Musicians (The Wall Street Journal © 06/22/2014) New Horizons International Music Association in Tarpon Springs, Fla., is a nonprofit…
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Eastman Musicians Earn Numerous Competition Prizes
Eastman School of Music students and ensembles have garnered prestigious national honors and awards at several annual competitions. In July, saxophonist Keenan McKoy (BM ‘14) won the national level of the NANM Competition in Los Angeles, Calif., and doctoral student Phil Pierick received third prize in the Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition in Bangkok, Thailand.…
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Eastman News Highlights June 23, 2014
Here are some select clippings from the past week 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.) New director working to make Bachauer piano competition more international (Salt Lake Tribune © 06/13/2014) Douglas Humpherys, Pollei’s former colleague and now…
DetailsXRIJF/Eastman Scholarship Recipients Announced
Pianist/composer Max Berlin and trumpeter Emanuel Burks have been named the recipients of this year’s Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival/Eastman School of Music Scholarship and will attend Eastman this fall as freshman in the Department of Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media. The scholarship program is sponsored by Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival producers Marc Iacona and…
DetailsHappy Birthday, Igor!
Today is the 132nd birthday of one of the greatest 20th-century composers, Igor Stravinsky. Besides being one of the greatest composers, he was one of the most-traveled, living in pre-Soviet Russia, in Paris, and in the United States and traveling just about everywhere else in the world as a guest composer, pianist, and conductor. In…
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Eastman Musicians at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival
Eastman School of Music musicians — current students, faculty, staff, and alumni as well as students and faculty from the Eastman Community Music School (ECMS) — will be appearing in more than two dozen shows during the 2014 Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (XRIJF). This year’s festival runs June 20 through 28 at 18 venues,…
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