Organ Debut, Honorary Degree for Jazz Great Dave Brubeck Highlight Eastman Weekend Celebration

From the first public concerts on a unique new pipe organ to the presentation of an honorary degree to jazz legend Dave Brubeck, the Eastman School of Music will celebrate the creativity, innovation, scholarship, and lifelong learning that occur within its classrooms and performance halls during Eastman Weekend. Eastman Weekend combines traditional events such as…

Eastman School Musicians Play Many Roles at International Arts and Cultural Festival

Eastman School of Music musicians—faculty, students, and alumni—will be prominent at this year’s Chihuahua International Festival: Associate professor Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez is the festival’s composer-in-residence; the Eastman BroadBand Ensemble is the resident ensemble for the festival’s contemporary music component; guitarist Dieter Hennings and the woodwind quintet Arabesque Winds will each present a recital; and the JACK…

Three Students Awarded Jazz Scholarships to Eastman

This fall, three musicians have joined Eastman School of Music’s incoming freshman class as this year’s recipients of the Rochester International Jazz Festival (RIJF)/Eastman School of Music scholarship. Adrian DiMatteo and Evan Henry of Rochester and Daniel Ziemann of Amherst are the latest students to earn the awards sponsored by RIJF producers John Nugent and…