Emmy Award-winning composer Jeff Beal, a graduate of the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, will be the Commencement Speaker for Eastman’s graduation ceremonies on Sunday, May 15, and will receive the School’s Distinguished Alumnus Award. In addition, Eastman School faculty member Jonathan Baldo will receive the University’s Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence…
Eastman School of Music student Felix Ungar has been awarded a Fulbright Research Grant and will spend the 2011-2012 academic year at Taipei University of the Arts in Taiwan. A second year doctoral viola student of Carol Rodland, Ungar will study contemporary Taiwanese works for viola with Ruei-Hsien Chen, including solo pieces and works for…
Sibley Music Library of the Eastman School of Music has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access Award of $300,000 to support its continuing efforts to digitize music scores in the public domain. This is the second NEH grant that the Library has received for the project, which provides free online access…
A series of free concerts from Monday, May 16, through Tuesday, May 24, will cap this year’s activities by ensembles in the New Horizons Program of the Eastman Community Music School. New Horizons is an adult music education program offering instruction and musical ensembles for instrumentalists and vocalists. The program is open to anyone, from…
For the second time in less than a year, Eastman BroadBand will be performing in New York City. This time, the ensemble will give back-to-back performances at the Americas Society on Friday, May 13, and at Symphony Space on Saturday, May 14, as part of the Wall to Wall Sonidos Festival. The program will feature…
Last year, during the inaugural season of a new benefit concert series entitled “If Music Be the Food . . .”, Eastman School of Music faculty and students, members of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and guest musicians helped to raise $575 and 781 pounds of food for Rochester’s Foodlink. The first two concerts of Season Two…
Composer Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon was a finalist for a 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his work Comala, which the Pulitzer committee described as an “ambitious cantata that translates into music an influential work of Latin American literature, giving voice to two cultures that intersect within the term ‘America.’” The Pulitzer Prizes were announced on Monday,…
Conductor and University of Rochester graduate Sean Newhouse, who made an acclaimed debut with the Boston Symphony in February when he stepped in on two hours’ notice for the ailing James Levine to conduct Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, will be visiting the Eastman School of Music on Wednesday, April 27. He’ll speak to conducting students and…
Building on a cultural exchange and collaboration launched in 2009, faculty members from the China Conservatory in Beijing will be visiting the Eastman School of Music and performing a free public concert. Scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26, at the University of Rochester’s Interfaith Chapel, the concert features traditional Chinese music performed on…