Francesca Zambello, artistic director of the Washington National Opera and artistic and general director of the Glimmerglass Opera, will give the Eastman School of Musicâs 2014 Glenn E. Watkins Lecture on Friday, Oct. 3, at 3 p.m. in the schoolâs Hatch Recital Hall. Zambelloâs lecture, titled âShow Business: Popular Culture vs. Art,â will be followed…
The Eastman Organ Department introduces a new concert series titled âTuesday Pipes,â which begins Oct. 7 at 12:10 p.m. Performances will be held at Christ Church in downtown Rochester, recurring weekly during the Tuesday lunch hour. Events are free and open to the general public. Each concert will run for approximately 25 minutes and showcase…
A new work by AndrĂ© Previn, the celebrated conductor, composer, pianist, and Oscar and Grammy winner, will receive its world premiere in a concert by the Eastman Wind Ensemble at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. Under conductor Mark Davis Scatterday, the ensemble will perform Music for…
To most of us, SalomĂ© is a salacious symbol of sexual excess. But that wasnât always the case. A striking new production combines the illustrations of famed comic-book artist P. Craig Russell with music to tell the biblical story of a beautiful and sensuous young dancer. Russellâs evocative graphic novel, based on Richard Straussâs opera SalomĂ©,…
Korean musician Jang Hyun Won, a legendary performer on the daegum, or traditional Korean wooden flute, will be in residence at the Eastman School of Music Thursday, Sept. 18. Won will give a class about daegum and Korean traditional music from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18,in the Ciminelli Formal Lounge located in…
The Eastman School of Music, in conjunction with Ithaca College and The Juilliard School, is presenting the 9th annual Music College Fair in Upstate New York at Eastman on Thursday, Oct. 9, from 5 to 7 p.m.  High school and college students who are interested in music will have the opportunity to meet one-on-one…
Concert organist and Eastman School of Music faculty member Nathan Laube will present âRochester’s Italian Baroque Organ, A Musical Cosmopoliteâat 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, in the Fountain Court at the Memorial Art Gallery.Featuring works by Cabanilles, Frescobaldi, Phillips, Rameau, Rossi, and others, the concert opens the 2014-2015 season of Third Thursday Concerts on…
Internationally noted jazz composer, arranger, and teacher Fred Sturm, an Eastman School of Music alumnus and faculty member from 1991 to 2002, died Sunday, August 24, in De Pere, Wis., following a long battle with cancer. He was 63 and was the Kimberly-Clark Professor of Music and director of jazz and improvisational music at Lawrence…
Gabriel Condon, a masterâs degree student at the University of Rochesterâs Eastman School of Music, was awarded first place in the jazz category of the 2014 Wilson Center Guitar Competition & Festival. Sponsored by the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts in Brookfield, Wis., the annual competition is conducted in four areas: rock/blues, fingerstyle,…