Keith Elder, an attorney and former arts administrator with major orchestras, has been named Director of Concert Activities for the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester. In addition to providing leadership to the concert office staff, he will advise the Dean on the School’s concert series, manage all aspects of the School’s…
David Higgs, chair of the Organ Department at the Eastman School of Music and one of America’s leading concert organists, has received the Paul Creston Award. Presented by St. Malachy’s–The Actors’ Chapel, the award recognizes artistic excellence by a significant figure in church music and the performing arts who embodies the Creston Creed and his…
One hundred years after he completed it, Edward Elgar’s Music Makers will finally get its Rochester premiere at Eastman School of Music Friday, Dec. 7, at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. Under the direction of William Weinert and Yunn-Shan Ma, the Eastman-Rochester Chorus and the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra will join forces…
Elizabeth West Marvin, Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music, has received the Gail Boyd de Stwolinski Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Music Theory Teaching and Scholarship. Presented every two years by the Gail Boyd de Stwolinski Center for Music Pedagogy at the University of Oklahoma, the award recognizes outstanding pedagogical contributions…
Michael Alan Anderson, Assistant Professor of Musicology at the Eastman School of Music, has been named a winner of both the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award and the American Musicological Society’s Noah Greenberg Award. The Deems Taylor Awards are presented annually by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) to authors and journalists for…
Another magnificent instrument is being added to Rochester’s collection of outstanding organs as the recently restored 1893 Hook and Hastings Organ, installed in Christ Church over the summer and fall, receives its inaugural concert on Friday, Nov. 30. Made by one of the premier American organ builders of the 19th century, the instrument will be…
The internationally renowned, award-winning Ying Quartet will give two performances of their upcoming Eastman-Ranlet Series concert featuring a new work by Brooklyn-based composer Kenji Bunch. The original concert date of Sunday, Dec. 2, will be for series subscribers and is being supplemented by another presentation for the general public at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6. …
Christopher Shultis, Professor of Composition, Percussion and Music Theory, Emeritus, at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, will deliver the first in a series of three lectures on composer, writer, and musical philosopher John Cage at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, in Room 209 of the Eastman School of Music’s main building. This year…
Internationally praised guitarist Raphaella Smits will perform in the Eastman School of Music’s Hatch Recital Hall at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, as part of the School’s Kilbourn Concert Series. Recognized as “an uncommonly musical guitarist” (Tim Page, New York Times), Smits plays worldwide on eight-string guitars and historical instruments. She studied classical music at…