Mezzo-soprano Melissa Fajardo won the Friends of Eastman Opera’s 12th annual competition for Eastman School of Music voice and opera students, held February 15 in the School’s Kilbourn Hall. She received the Lynne Clarke Vocal Prize in the amount of $1,500, donated by John Clarke in honor of his late wife, a founding member of…
Harking back to a golden era in recording – when the ensembles of the Eastman School of Music made dozens of pioneering LPs for the Mercury Living Presence label – the Eastman Wind Ensemble and Eastman Virtuosi team to release an all-Stravinsky album on Avie Records on February 12. The Eastman Wind Ensemble, traditionally a…
Eastman School of Music alumni Renée Fleming (MM ’83) and Robert (Bob) Ludwig (BM ’66 MM ’01) each won a Grammy during the 55th annual awards show Sunday, Feb. 10. Fleming was awarded her fourth Grammy for Best Classical Vocal Solo award for Poèmes, her album of four French orchestral song cycles. Ludwig, who is…
Highly recognized composer and Eastman School of Music alumnus David Crumb will be a guest composer at the School to hear his works performed by Eastman musicians and to meet with composition students. A recital of his compositions on Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 8 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall features Red Desert Triptych, performed by…
Rumors of a meeting between the Beatles and Karlheinz Stockhausen – icons of 1960s rock and avant-garde composition, respectively – are untrue, even though Stockhausen appears on the cover of the group’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album and the composer’s Hymnen echoes in John Lennon’s Revolution 9. But the idea of the-meeting-that-never-was is…
Thirteen students have been chosen to represent the Eastman School of Music in the prestigious Conservatory Project at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Feb. 12. The Conservatory Project is designed to present the best young musical artists in classical, jazz, musical theater, opera and more from…
Ten voice and opera students from the Eastman School of Music will compete in the finals of the Friends of Eastman (FEO) Opera Voice Competition at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, in Kilbourn Hall. The annual event, which is free and open to the public, gives local audiences the opportunity to hear rising vocal talents…
Soprano Helen Donath, whose distinguished career spans more than five decades and continues to elicit critical acclaim, will join the Eastman School of Music’s Philharmonia, under conductor Neil Varon, for a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. Donath, who just gave a recital…
Eastman School of Music alumni speakers and performers will pay tribute to legendary faculty organist David Craighead in a progressive recital scheduled on Friday, Feb. 1. Performances will be presented on the two instruments that bear his name at 6 p.m. at Christ Church, 141 East Ave., and at 8 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal…