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Finding the Organ’s Voices: is Topic of 2018 EROI Festival
October 11, 2018With the theme of Beyond the Stops: Finding the Organ’s Voices, the 2018 Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI) Festival will take place October 24–26 in Rochester, NY. The magnificent organs of the Rochester area will facilitate exploration beyond stoplists and stereotypes, celebrating the vast potentials of organ sounds—regardless of chronological, national, or historical styles of organ […]
Read More...Eastman Organists’ Community Concerts return for the 2018-19 season
October 11, 2018The Eastman School of Music Organ Department kicks off a new season of Community Concerts — short organ recitals by Eastman students as part of the department’s ongoing initiative to bring outstanding organ music to the Rochester community. From October to April, students will perform in monthly concerts in local churches around Rochester, facilitating a […]
Read More...Eastman News Highlights October 8, 2018
October 8, 2018Here 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.) Renovations unveiled at the Eastman Community Music School (WXXI News 10/01/2018) The renovations of that former office building now include 27 faculty […]
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Celebration of Messinger Hall Renovation and Dedication of the Karen Rettner Community Music Center
October 4, 2018The Eastman Community Music School celebrated the completion of the renovation of Messinger Hall with a grand reopening and dedication of the Karen Rettner Community Music Center, Wednesday, October 3 from 5 to 7 p.m. The event began with an open house, featuring performances by Eastman musicians, showcasing the newly renovated ground, third, and fourth […]
Read More...Conductors Caleb Hopkins and Joseph Taff to lead the first Bach Cantatas of the Season
October 4, 2018Conductors Caleb Hopkins (left) and Joseph Taff (right) By Sarah Forestieri and Caleb Hopkins The Eastman Bach Cantata series begins this Sunday October 7, 2018 at 3:00 pm, with BWV 48: Ich elender Mensch, wer wird mich erlösen (Miserable Man that I Am, Who Will Free Me?), and BWV 8: Liebster Gott, wenn werd ich […]
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The Fernando Laires Piano Series Presents: Sandro Russo
October 3, 2018 The Fernando Laires Piano Series presents Sandro Russo on Friday, October 19 at 7:30 p.m., in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. The first part of the program is all Chopin: Three Mazurkas, Op. 56; Berceuse in D flat, Op. 57; Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op. 60; and the Polonaise-Fantasie, Op. 61. After [...]Read More...Eastman News Highlights October 1, 2018
October 1, 2018Here 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.) Composer Ricky Ian Gordon visits Eastman School of Music (Fox Rochester 09/26/2018) Eastman Opera Theatre is getting ready for its production of […]
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The Kilbourn Concert Series Presents: Dawn Upshaw
September 28, 2018The Kilbourn Concert Series, presents Grammy-award winning vocalist together with pianist Gilbert Kalish, Tuesday, October 9, at 7:30 p.m., in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. Grammy-award winning singer, Dawn Upshaw, has achieved worldwide celebrity on both the opera stage and in the concert hall with repertoire ranging from the sacred works of […]
Read More...A Priceless Percussion Experience: Eastman Percussion Group Performs in China
September 27, 2018Late this summer, the Eastman Percussion Group played before a large audience at Beijing’s National Centre for Performing Arts. By Jessica Kaufman While many of Eastman’s distinguished faculty members have the privilege of traveling internationally to perform at various large-scale festivals and conferences, it is a special professor who brings his current and former students […]
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The Faculty Artist Series Presents: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Composer
September 26, 2018The Faculty Artist Series presents Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, October 2, at 3 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. The performance will feature Eastman students and alumni Emlyn Johnson, flute, Tiffany Valvo, clarinet, Jacob Ertl, piano, Brant Blackard, percussion, Shannon Steigerwald, violin, and Daniel Ketter, cello. The group will be performing Sanchez-Gutierrez’s Winik/Té […]
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