David Craighead, a legendary Eastman School of Music faculty organist who balanced an impressive career in teaching and performing, died Monday, March 26, in Rochester, N.Y. He was 88 years old. Professor Craighead joined the Eastman faculty in 1955 and served as Professor of Organ and Chair of the Organ Division of the Keyboard Department…
American pianist Simone Dinnerstein, whose self-produced recording of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations received critical acclaim and made a number of “Best of 2007” lists including those of The New York Times and New Yorker, will perform in the Kilbourn Concert Series at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, at the Eastman School of Music. The…
The critically acclaimed New York City-based Ensemble Signal will join Eastman School of Music new music ensembles Musica Nova and Ossia to present three major works by Steve Reich at Kilbourn Hall on Wednesday, April 11 at 8 p.m. The concert is part of a collaboration in which the students will work alongside Signal members…
Eastman School of Music student Matthew Grills was one of five winners of the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions after the Grand Finals Concert held this afternoon (Sunday, March 18) in New York City. He and the other four winners, who were chosen from nine finalists, each received a cash prize of $15,000. A second year master’s degree…
Tenor Matthew Grills, a second year master’s degree student at the Eastman School of Music, has been named a finalist in the 2012 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Along with eight other finalists, he will perform in a Grand Finals Concert this Sunday, March 18, in New York City. From this group, winners are chosen…
“True love prevails” is a universal story, whether the lovers live in a Czechoslovakian village or on the plains of Iowa. In Eastman Opera Theatre’s upcoming production of The Bartered Bride, a 1930s Midwestern county fair stands in for a 19th century church festival in central Europe, a scheming attorney replaces a scheming marriage broker,…
Canadian pianist and composer Lorraine Desmarais, a versatile jazz musician who’s also performed with classical artists, headlines this year’s Women in Music Festival at the Eastman School of Music March 26 to 31. As composer-in-residence, she will hold workshop and coaching sessions, attend recitals of her works, and rehearse and perform with the Eastman New…
The Eastman School of Music’s student chapter of the National Association for Music Education and the Rochester Education Foundation have announced that they are partnering on NAfME’s current initiative to benefit music programs in the Rochester City School District. The initiative includes an instrument drive through March 31, with several drop-off centers located throughout the…
The Eastman School of Music will present Voice of Eastman, a program featuring seven students from the Voice and Opera Department, as part of the prestigious Conservatory Project at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Sopranos Adelaide Boedecker, Joel Dyson, and Elizabeth Smith, mezzo-soprano Melissa Fajardo, tenor Matthew Grills, baritone Thomas Lehman,…