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,…
Eight organists, all faculty members from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, will present concerts on Sunday, Feb. 26, as part of a week-long study trip to the Eastman School of Music. The musicians, who are recording and prize-winning artists as well as renowned cathedral organists, will be featured in the Italian Baroque…
The benefit concert series If Music Be the Food . . . will continue its third season with a concert at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Rd. (at East Avenue) in Rochester, on Sunday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m. Last year’s concert series, which involved Eastman School of Music faculty and students, members of…
Two Eastman School of Music graduates were recognized in the 54th Grammy Awards: Robert (Bob) Ludwig (BM ’66 music education and MM ’01 trumpet) was honored for Best Surround Sound Album and Christopher Lamb (BM ’81) won for Best Classical Instrumental Solo. Ludwig was the surround mastering engineer on the album Layla and Other Assorted…
The Eastman School of Music’s student chapter of the National Association for Music Education is organizing activities to benefit music programs in the Rochester City School District. A two-month “Instrument Drive” and a pair of concerts in March are planned to help boost programs for elementary and secondary school students. The instrument drive will take place…
On the walls of Zvi Zeitlin’s studio in the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music is a photographic who’s who of famous musicians. Over the course of his illustrious career, the violinist has performed with and cemented friendships with some of the greatest artists of the 20th century. “(Violinist Itzhak) Perlman sends me a…
Eastman School of Music Professor Emeritus of Voice John T. Maloy, an esteemed and beloved teacher of such opera luminaries as Renée Fleming, Anthony Dean Griffey, Nicole Cabell, James Courtney, and many other singers, died Thursday, Jan. 12, in Rochester, N.Y. He was 81 years old. Before joining the Eastman faculty in 1966, Professor Maloy…
A diverse program of music by Russian composers, presented by the Eastman Community Music School and Linkages of Rochester, Inc., will celebrate Rochester’s connection to its sister city of Velikiy Novgorod. The sixth annual collaborative event, titled “A Russian-American Friendship Concert,” will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012, in Kilbourn Hall. Featuring…
Since it was founded in 1977, the William Warfield Scholarship Fund has provided financial aid to more than 35 voice students at the Eastman School of Music, and spotlighted talented recipients during an annual benefit concert. This year’s scholarship holder, bass-baritone Jamal Moore, will be joined by fellow members of the University of Rochester YellowJackets…