Robert Haskins, Associate Professor of Musicology and Graduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Music at the University of New Hampshire, will deliver the last of the John Cage Centennial Lectures of the Eastman School of Music on Thursday, April 18. Titled “John Cage and Zen: What Did He Know, When Did He Know It,…
Saxophonist Keenan McKoy, this year’s recipient of the annual scholarship awarded by the Rochester, New York Chapter, The Links, Incorporated, to an Eastman School of Music student, will present a recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 28, in Kilbourn Hall. The award, a cooperative effort between the Rochester, New York Chapter, The Links, Incorporated, and…
Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, a powerful choral masterpiece denouncing war and honoring the fallen, will be presented by the Eastman School of Music at 8 p.m. Friday, May 3, in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. Requiring two orchestras, two choruses, and soloists, War Requiem is a large-scale work that intersperses Britten’s setting of the traditional…
Twelve exceptionally talented young singer-actors, with previous stage experience ranging from roles on Broadway to the Metropolitan Opera House, will participate in the finals of the 2013 Lotte Lenya Competition on Saturday, April 13, at the Eastman School of Music. The finalists will compete for top prizes of $15,000, $10,000 and $7,500 in front of…
Hans Abrahamsen, a Danish composer whose early work reflected the “New Simplicity” reaction to avant-garde complexity, will be in residence at the Eastman School of Music in April as this year’s Howard Hanson Visiting Professor of Composition. Abrahamsen’s work will be performed by Eastman’s Musica Nova at 8 p.m. Monday, April 8, in Kilbourn Hall,…
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…
Dora A. Hanninen, Associate Professor and Chair of Music Theory and Composition in the School of Music at the University of Maryland College Park, will deliver the second of the John Cage Centennial Lectures at the Eastman School of Music at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in Room 404 of the School. Hanninen, who received…
JACK Quartet, which had its start at the Eastman School of Music and has been described in The New York Times as “luminaries of the contemporary classical-music world” and as one “of the most prominent new-music ensembles in New York,” returns to its alma mater in April. The ensemble will perform a concert celebrating contemporary…
The Eastman School of Music has announced that Mark Berry has been appointed Executive Director of Communications. In this position, he will manage all aspects of the School’s strategic communications program, including developing and overseeing marketing, media relations, public relations, publications, and design. Berry has worked in arts marketing and arts administration for more than…