The Eastman Community Music School’s Guitar Program will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a concert featuring current students and teachers as well as alumni and former faculty at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 17, in Hatch Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Approximately 150 area students have studied in the…
To the Eastman Community: Downtown Rochester will host the filming of the major Hollywood movie The Amazing Spider-Man 2 from Tuesday, April 30 to Thursday, May 9, and during this time Main Street and some surrounding streets will be shut down between 6 AM and 9 PM. Action sequences that include car chases and other…
Project Fusion, an award-winning saxophone quartet composed of Eastman School of Music doctoral students Dannel Espinoza and Matt Evans, master’s degree student Michael Sawzin, and Matt Amedio BM ‘13, claimed the Grand Prize at the 2013 Plowman Chamber Music competition. The competition, held earlier this month at the Missouri Theatre in Columbia, is a highly…
Michel Bouvard, one of today’s leading French concert organists, and a visiting professor of organ at the Eastman School of Music this spring, will be presenting two public concerts. On Sunday, April 21, at 5:30 p.m., Bouvard will perform in Eastman’s monthly Third Sunday Concerts with the Italian Baroque Organ series at the Memorial Art…
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,…