Eastman Community Music School (ECMS) students and ensembles will be showcased during Winter Festival Day on Saturday, Dec. 20. The daylong celebration, which features a series of concurrent performances in several venues on the Eastman School of Music campus, begins at 9:30 a.m. The performances will feature a wide array of music styles and ensemble…
Paul O’Dette, professor of lute at the Eastman School of Music, and Eastman alumnus and mastering engineer Robert (Bob) Ludwig have received nominations in the 57th Annual Grammy Awards competition. Both are previous Grammy award winners. This year, O’Dette is a nominee in the Best Opera Recording Category. Ludwig is in the running for three…
ROCmusic, a community-based program that provides after-school tuition-free music and string instruction to children in the City of Rochester, will present a one-hour Winter Holiday concert titled “ROC the Night Away” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, at the David F. Gantt R-Center, 700 North St. The concert, which is free and open to the…
Eastman School of Music singers and baroque instrumentalists will present Heinrich Schütz’s The Christmas Story (Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi) at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 18, as part of the Third Thursday Concert with Eastman’s Italian Baroque Organ series at the Memorial Art Gallery. Schütz’s The Christmas Story presents the Nativity story in a…
Future violinists have a chance to learn about and try the most prominent instrument in the orchestra when the Eastman Community Music School celebrates Violin Day on Saturday, Dec. 13. Adults and children can enjoy recitals, watch classes, and try their hand at making music during a string instrument petting zoo. All the activities are…
Melina Esse, associate professor of musicology at the Eastman School of Music, received the American Musicological Society’s highly coveted 2014 Alfred Einstein Award, which honors an article of exceptional merit published during the previous year by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career. Esse was honored for her article “Encountering the…
Baritone Derrick Smith, whose career included opera roles such as Porgy, Crown, and Jake in Porgy and Bess as well as acclaimed solo performances, died Tuesday, Nov. 18, following a heart attack. He was 56. Mr. Smith received his master’s degree at the Eastman School of Music in 1988 and had been on the faculty…
Michael Alan Anderson, associate professor of musicology at the Eastman School of Music, has, for the second time in three years, been named a winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award. The Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards are presented annually by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) to authors and journalists for…
Organists Edoardo Bellotti and William Porter will present a duo concert “Goût Français and Stile Italiano: A Comparison” as part of the Third Thursday Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. this Thursday, Nov. 20 at the Memorial Art Gallery. The program features works by composers Couperin and Merul and improvisations by Bellotti and Porter on harpsichord and…