Sa Chen, the only pianist to win prizes at all three of the world’s top piano competitions — the Leeds, Chopin, and Van Cliburn — wraps up the 2010-2011 Kilbourn Concert Series at the Eastman School of Music on Tuesday, March 22, at 8 p.m. She will perform a wide-ranging and technically challenging program that…
The journey from youthful naiveté to maturity, from material ambition to tragic downfall, is treated in grand opera tradition in Manon. The late-19th-century opera by Jules Massenet, with its lyrical arias and duets, will be presented by Eastman School of Music’s Eastman Opera Theatre on March 31 and April 1 through 3. Massenet’s work traces…
Two concerts of electroacoustic performances, featuring works by leading composers in the genre, will be presented by the Eastman Computer Music Center at the Eastman School of Music. Tristan Murail is an award-winning French composer associated with the “spectral” technique of composition, which uses the fundamental properties of sound as a basis for harmony, as…
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…