Pulitzer Prize winner Shulamit Ran, who has been writing music since she was seven years old, will spend three separate weeks at the Eastman School of Music this semester as Howard Hanson Visiting Professor of Composition. During that time, she will meet with students in composition symposiums, hold private lessons, and attend Eastman School concerts…
Three Eastman School of Music graduates, soprano Renée Fleming, tenor Anthony Dean Griffey, and composer/arranger Bill Cunliffe, won awards in the 52nd annual Grammy Awards competition. Fleming and Griffey, who already had two Grammys apiece, received two more Grammys each, while Cunliffe picked up his first Grammy. Fleming (MM ’83) won in the Best Classical…
The Eastman Youth Jazz Orchestra will be traveling to New York City in February to defend their Best Big Band title in the national Charles Mingus High School Competition and Festival. The orchestra, an ensemble of the Eastman Community Music School, was also selected as one of the finalists in the Combo Category. Directed by…
The award-winning Amernet String Quartet will perform in the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, as part of the School’s Kilbourn Concert Series. Arnold Steinhardt, first violinist of the Guarneri Quartet who was scheduled to appear with the quartet, will not be joining them due to an elbow injury.…
On Monday, Feb. 1, Eastman School of Music faculty and students will be joined by special guests for the second in a series of chamber music concerts to benefit Rochester’s Foodlink, a non-profit regional food bank that distributes food to soup kitchens, shelters and emergency food pantries, and to non-emergency programs such as group homes,…
An Eastman School of Music graduate who was in Haiti when the country was hit by a catastrophic earthquake this month will perform at a benefit concert at the school at 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28, in Kilbourn Hall. Titled “Harmony for Haiti,” the concert is organized and coordinated by Eastman School master’s degree students…
The American Brass Quintet, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary during its current touring season, will be appearing at the Eastman School of Music at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 26, as part of the Kilbourn Concert Series. Called the “high priests of brass” by Newsweek, the American Brass Quintet has performed on five continents,…
Wu Man, an internationally renowned virtuoso on the Chinese pipa and a core member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, will headline a concert featuring stringed instruments from three continents in the next World Music Series performance at the Eastman School of Music. Joining Wu Man at 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 22, in Kilbourn…
Jazz fills Rochester venues year-round and this spring Eastman School of Music will be hosting noted guest artists who’ll give public performances with Eastman musicians. Pianist and composer Michael Weiss, known for his work with such jazz luminaries as Johnny Griffin, Art Farmer, Wynton Marsalis, Charles McPherson, Slide Hampton, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, and others,…