On Monday, July 9, a massive shipping container arrived in downtown Rochester following a month-long, 4,000-mile, sea-and-land journey from Sweden. Carefully loaded inside were all the mechanical parts and the parts of the case for the city’s newest instrument: a 15-ton pipe organ to be built inside Christ Church. Workers unloaded and carried the pieces…
Karl Stabnau of Brighton is this year’s recipient of the Rochester International Jazz Festival/Eastman School of Music scholarship. He will start his studies in jazz saxophone at Eastman School and in physics in the University’s Colleges of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering this fall. For the past four years, Stabnau has taken lessons at the Eastman…
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Musicians from the Eastman School of Music are on the bill of the upcoming JVC Jazz Festival in New York City and will be participating in the North Sea Jazz Festival next month in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Reflecting the prize-winning caliber of Eastman’s jazz ensembles, a special Eastman Jazz Performance Workshop Honors Unit…
Like to sing in the shower? Then share your talents this summer at the “Eastman Summer Sings” series. Presented by the Eastman School of Music, the popular annual series of choral music reading sessions opens Tuesday, July 3, in the school’s Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St., with participants performing J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor.…
Eastman School of Music faculty, alumni, and students play prominently in the line-up for the upcoming Rochester International Jazz Festival. From the opening session on Friday, June 8, with the Dave Rivello Ensemble, through Bob Sneider’s nightly jam sessions, Eastman musicians will be performing on various stages throughout the nine-day event. In addition to Rivello,…
The Eastman School of Music will present noted jazz musician Chuck Mangione (BM ’63) with its Alumni Achievement Award. The award will be presented on Sunday evening, May 27 by Eastman’s Interim Dean, Jamal Rossi, in the Eastman Theatre just before the second half of the recreation of Mangione’s famous Friends and Love concert of…
Throughout the months of May and June, students of all ages who attend Eastman’s Community Music School show off their accomplishments in a series of free recitals and ensemble concerts offered to Rochester music lovers. The series began last weekend and continues through Monday, June 18. “This is the culminating time of year for our…
Rochester, N.Y. — Douglas Lowry, currently dean of the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, on August 1 will become the new dean of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, President Joel Seligman announced today. “Doug Lowry has been an extraordinarily successful academic leader as well as a composer…
ROCHESTER, NY —The Eastman School of Music will present a variety of concerts and performances this summer. Featured performers include members of Eastman’s collegiate faculty, special guest artists, and summer program participants. The schedule includes the annual concert of World Music with Mitzie Collins and Friends on Wednesday, July 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn…
“Robust energy and enthusiasm” is how the Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the word “vim” – which is also the name of an Eastman School of Music student saxophone quartet that has won awards and acclaim for its outstanding musicianship. The ViM Saxophone Quartet will represent Eastman in the prestigious Conservatory Project of the John F. Kennedy…