From composer to performer to producer, the different roles women occupy in the music field will be celebrated during an annual festival at the Eastman School of Music. The 2011 Women in Music Festival includes a program of silent short films with live original music, a preview of a one-act musical by a local composing-playwriting…
Organ and orchestra performances by Eastman School of Music graduate students will be presented at Sacred Heart Cathedral during “A Concert of Concertos” at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 1. Four soloists will be joined by the Eastman Graduate Chamber Orchestra under Professor Neil Varon and assistant conductors Conner Gray Covington and Christopher Unger. The concert…
Two legendary jazz arrangers and composers, Bob Brookmeyer and Bill Holman, will visit the Eastman School of Music during the first week of March. Brookmeyer will be in residence for a program of his music to be presented by the Eastman New Jazz Ensemble, directed by Dave Rivello, at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, in…
Rochester audiences have the rare opportunity to hear 18th-century harp duets performed on period instruments in an upcoming concert at the Eastman Community Music School. The concert, which features music composed by the harp teacher of the ill-fated queen of France Marie Antoinette, will be presented at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, in the Eastman…
The original American genre of ragtime gets the spotlight from the Ying Quartet when the ensemble presents its annual LifeMusic concert as part of the Eastman-Ranlet Series on Sunday, Feb. 27, at 3 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall. The recital will feature Three Rags for String Quartet by pianist and composer John Novacek, who’s embraced the…
A new work by award-winning jazz artist Bob Brookmeyer will headline an upcoming concert by the Eastman School of Music’s New Jazz Ensemble. Rochester audiences will be treated to the first public performance of Brookmeyer’s “Christmas Tree” at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, in Kilbourn Hall. The work was commissioned by the NDR Big Band…
Grammy-winning ensemble eighth blackbird, known for its energetic performances making new music accessible to wide audiences, will appear in the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Concert Series on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 8 p.m. The program features a new work titled 5 Memos by Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez, Associate Professor of Composition at the Eastman School of…
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an extraordinary musician, perhaps history’s greatest composer. He should have amassed a fortune. Instead, he died penniless. Many musicians throughout history have suffered a similar fate, unable to turn their dedication and talent into a successful career. A new book by Ramon Ricker, a senior administrator at the University of Rochester’s…
The Eastman School of Music’s Eastman Chamber Jazz will perform arrangements by pianist, composer, and bandleader Gil Evans that have not been heard in more than five decades on Thursday, Feb. 17, at 8 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall. The program features Evans’s arrangements from the Claude Thornhill Orchestra that have not been performed in 50-plus…