Ivan Trevino (left) and Michael Burritt (right). Photographs courtesy Ivan Trevino. by Ivan Trevino Organizing a summer percussion festival at Eastman is something Michael Burritt and Ivan Trevino have been contemplating for years. The duo has shared many coffees, phone calls, and texts about what a potential festival would be like. So many summer…
Gather ‘round to hear some tales of magic and explore distant lands of creatures that you’ve never seen before. Come enjoy some plots that only authors can contrive, as we play scores to pictures and deliver a Story Time LIVE. Featuring Empire Film and Media Ensemble (EFaME), Story Time LIVE will take place Sunday, March…
The Faculty Artist Series presents Bonita Boyd, Professor of Flute; Kenneth Grant, Associate Professor of Clarinet; Nicholas Goluses, Professor of Guitar; Renee Jolles, Professor of Violin; and Andrew Harley, Associate Professor of Collaborative Piano on Monday, March 16 at 7:30 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall at the Eastman School of Music. This collaborative chamber concert…
The Faculty Artist Series presents Russell Miller, Professor of Vocal Coaching and Repertoire, on Sunday, March 1 at 3 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. Dr. Miller, along with tenor Genaro Méndez, will present a recital featuring music by Schumann, Turina, Guastavino, and Ginastera. Pianist Russell Miller has been a coach…
The Faculty Artist Series presents Guy Johnston, Associate Professor of Cello, with pianist Chiao-Wen Cheng on Monday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. They will perform an all-Beethoven program: Twelve Variations on a Theme from “Judas Maccabeus”; Twelve Variations on “Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen”; and Cello Sonatas…
The Eastman Piano Series announces Joyce Yang to perform in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music on Friday, March 20, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. Blessed with “poetic and sensitive pianism” (Washington Post) and a “wondrous sense of color” (San Francisco Classical Voice), Grammy nominated pianist Joyce Yang captivates audiences with her virtuosity, lyricism,…
The Eastman-Ranlet Series presents the Aizuri Quartet Sunday, March 29, at 3 p.m., in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. Through its engaging and thought-provoking programs, branded by The New York Times as “genuinely exciting” and “imaginative,” the The Aizuri Quartet has garnered critical acclaim for bringing “a technical bravado and emotional power”…
The Kodak Hall Concert Series announces Bobby McFerrin Wednesday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Eastman School of Music’s Kodak Hall. McFerrin’s exhilarating vocal vocabulary -call-and-response, global rhythms, soaring melodies, lush harmonies, funny noises, invented language, silence, prayers, and laughter—reminds us all of how much fun it is to be alive, to lift our voices,…
Nicole Cabell has been appointed to the Faculty of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester as Assistant Professor of Voice beginning in the fall of 2020. Cabell earned a Bachelor of Music from Eastman in 2001, and is currently Assistant Professor of Voice at DePaul University. Jamal J. Rossi, the Joan…
Media Contacts: Dolores Orman, Gateways Music Festival, 585-271-5185, dolores.orman@gmail.com Jessica Kaufman, Eastman School of Music, 585-274-1057, jkaufman@esm.rochester.edu After a highly successful 2019 season, Gateways Music Festival in association with Eastman School of Music, announced today it will become an annual event starting in the fall of 2020. A critically acclaimed series featuring world-class classical…