As one of the winning ensembles of the Percussive Arts Society’s International Percussion Ensemble Competition, the Eastman Percussion Ensemble will perform a Showcase Concert at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) in Indianapolis on Saturday, Nov. 16. In their showcase concert, the Eastman Percussion Ensemble will present a program of contemporary percussion repertoire, featuring…
On Sunday, November 3, at 3 p.m., the Eastman School of Music will host a memorial celebration in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre in honor of Douglas Lowry. The event, a tribute in words, music, and images, is free and open to the public, but tickets will be needed. Tickets will be available starting on…
Eastman Opera Theatre brings She Loves Me, an old-fashioned romantic Broadway musical, to the Kilbourn Hall stage for four performances beginning Thursday, Nov. 7. The two-act, two-and-a-half-hour production features music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, who also wrote the songs for Fiddler on the Roof. The musical is based on the 1937…
Legendary jazz composer and arranger Bill Holman will join the Eastman Jazz Ensemble, directed by Bill Dobbins, and the Eastman New Jazz Ensemble, directed by Dave Rivello, as a guest artist on Thursday, Oct. 24. Holman will direct both groups in a program of his original compositions and arrangements in Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn…
Edoardo Bellotti will present a concert of 17th-century organ music inspired by the concept of a “cosmic organ” at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, October 20, at the Memorial Art Gallery. The program features works by Frescobaldi, Pasquini, Muffat, Kerll, and Froberger. The “cosmic organ” appears in Musurgia Universalis, an encyclopedic presentation of musical theory and knowledge…
Alexander Peña has been appointed director of RocMusic, a music education outreach program that offers group instruction for economically disadvantaged children and teenagers from Rochester. RocMusic currently serves more than 60 students ages 6 through 18, providing tuition-free classes for six hours per week in singing, reading and writing music, and instrumental study. The program…
The Eastman School of Music’s Philharmonia and Eastman Rochester Chorus will perform Gustav Mahler’s astonishing Symphony No. 2, “The Resurrection,” on Friday, Oct. 18, under conductor Neil Varon. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre and will be dedicated to the memory of Joan and Messinger Dean Emeritus Douglas…
Douglas Lowry, the Joan and Martin Messinger Dean Emeritus of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, died Wednesday, Oct. 2. A composer, conductor, and academic leader who was keenly attuned to the shifting music world and its challenges for music schools and students, he was 62. “Doug was a remarkable University leader. …
World-renowned flutists Sir James Galway and Lady Jeanne Galway will perform on NPR’s From the Top at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, 2014, when the program will be recorded live in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The duo will perform alongside an ensemble of wind performers. WXXI and the Eastman School of Music are bringing From…