Building upon more than four decades of generously supporting programs and initiatives across the University of Rochester, alumnus Martin E. Messinger and his wife Joan have made a commitment to endow the position of Dean of the Eastman School of Music. Douglas Lowry, the Eastman School’s sixth Dean, will be named the first Joan and…
The Chiara String Quartet will present the Rochester premiere of Milagros by Gabriela Lena Frank, a composer who often draws on her multicultural heritage, during its Eastman-Ranlet Series concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 3, in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. The ensemble’s program will open with Beethoven’s String Quartet in A…
Over the next few weeks, Eastman School of Music students will be reaching out into the community with classical music, presenting interactive concerts in schools, libraries, churches, nursing homes, hospitals, and other locations. The events are part of the School’s “Music for All” initiative, a chamber music program designed to take classical music out of…
Avant-garde jazz composer and trumpet virtuoso Cuong Vu, widely recognized by jazz critics as a leader of a generation of innovative musicians, will be in residence at the Eastman School of Music and will present free concerts with his trio on Thursday, March 31, and Friday, April 1. Vu’s trio features drummer Ted Poor, who…
Seven leading German organists and professors from the Hochschule für Künste (University of the Arts) in Bremen will be in residence at the Eastman School of Music and will give public performances, including two concerts on Sunday, March 27. As part of the Eastman at St. Michael’s Series of monthly recitals, Winfried Dahlke, Klaus Eichhorn,…
Nationally known song leader Nick Page will be featured in “Sing With Us,” a concert by the Eastman Community Music School’s Children’s Chorus with choral director Karie Templeton at 6 p.m. Sunday, March 20, at the Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word in Rochester. Admission to the concert will be free, donations will be accepted.…
Sa Chen, the only pianist to win prizes at all three of the world’s top piano competitions — the Leeds, Chopin, and Van Cliburn — wraps up the 2010-2011 Kilbourn Concert Series at the Eastman School of Music on Tuesday, March 22, at 8 p.m. She will perform a wide-ranging and technically challenging program that…
The journey from youthful naiveté to maturity, from material ambition to tragic downfall, is treated in grand opera tradition in Manon. The late-19th-century opera by Jules Massenet, with its lyrical arias and duets, will be presented by Eastman School of Music’s Eastman Opera Theatre on March 31 and April 1 through 3. Massenet’s work traces…
Two concerts of electroacoustic performances, featuring works by leading composers in the genre, will be presented by the Eastman Computer Music Center at the Eastman School of Music. Tristan Murail is an award-winning French composer associated with the “spectral” technique of composition, which uses the fundamental properties of sound as a basis for harmony, as…
From composer to performer to producer, the different roles women occupy in the music field will be celebrated during an annual festival at the Eastman School of Music. The 2011 Women in Music Festival includes a program of silent short films with live original music, a preview of a one-act musical by a local composing-playwriting…