Selected Coverage September 2008
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Three Students Awarded Jazz Scholarships to Eastman
This fall, three musicians have joined Eastman School of Music’s incoming freshman class as this year’s recipients of the Rochester International Jazz Festival (RIJF)/Eastman School of Music scholarship. Adrian DiMatteo and Evan Henry of Rochester and Daniel Ziemann of Amherst are the latest students to earn the awards sponsored by RIJF producers John Nugent and…
DetailsEight New Faculty Members at Eastman School of Music This Fall
The Eastman School of Music has announced the following faculty appointments: Michael Burritt, Professor of Percussion. Having performed on four continents and nearly 40 states, Michael Burritt is one of the world’s leading percussion soloists. He is in frequent demand performing concert tours and master classes throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Canada.…
DetailsEastman School of Music Fall Concerts and Events
With performances by the Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble and the Ying Quartet, a celebration of one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century, the first concerts on a breathtaking new organ, exciting guest artists, and world-class music making by faculty and students, the Eastman School of Music’s upcoming concert season offers events…
Details16-Year-Old Virtuoso from Canada Takes Top Prize In Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition
Tie-Dan Yao, 16, of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, was awarded first prize after the final round of the 2008 Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition last night (Friday, Aug. 8) in Kilbourn Hall of the Eastman School of Music. As top winner of the weeklong event for talented 15-to-18-year-old pianists, Tie-Dan Yao receives a cash award…
DetailsFinalists in Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition Head for Final Round Tonight
After three rounds of intense judged competition, six finalists were selected from the field of 23 musical virtuosos in the 2008 Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition. The six will perform a movement of a piano concerto in the final round beginning at 7:30 p.m. tonight (Friday, Aug. 8) in Kilbourn Hall. Finalists are: Xue-Sha…
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Top Young Pianists From Around the World Will Compete at Eastman
Twenty-five of the world’s finest young pianists, including an award-winning local teenager who was featured on National Public Radio, will vie for prizes in the Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition next month. The week-long event of adjudicated performances and master classes, all of which are open to the public, begins Saturday, Aug, 2, at…
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First Eastman Pathways Fellows Enter Eastman School of Music This Fall
Guitarist Adrian DiMatteo and trumpeter Evan Henry are the first two Eastman Community Music School students admitted as Pathways Fellows to the Eastman School of Music. # # # Two School of the Arts seniors, a guitarist who has already garnered national attention and a trumpeter-composer whose work will be played at an upcoming Rochester…
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