Conductor and University of Rochester graduate Sean Newhouse, who made an acclaimed debut with the Boston Symphony in February when he stepped in on two hours’ notice for the ailing James Levine to conduct Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, will be visiting the Eastman School of Music on Wednesday, April 27. He’ll speak to conducting students and…
Building on a cultural exchange and collaboration launched in 2009, faculty members from the China Conservatory in Beijing will be visiting the Eastman School of Music and performing a free public concert. Scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26, at the University of Rochester’s Interfaith Chapel, the concert features traditional Chinese music performed on…
Rochester audiences will experience a colorful program of traditional and newly composed musical works for Balinese gamelan as the Eastman School of Music’s Gamelan Lila Muni presents its annual concert. This year’s concert will also feature the Harley Community Gamelan Angklung Ensemble and the Harley Children’s Gamelan Angklung Ensemble. Translated as “orchestra of heavenly sound,”…
The Eastman Percussion Ensemble will represent the Eastman School of Music in the prestigious Conservatory Project at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, April 28, at 6 p.m. The program will open with Edgar Vareseâs groundbreaking work Ionization, the first concert hall composition for percussion ensemble in…
This year’s recipient of an annual scholarship awarded by the Rochester, New York  Chapter, The Links, Incorporated, to an Eastman School of Music student will present a recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 17, in the School’s Kilbourn Hall. Alex Gonzalez, a violinist in the studio of Professor Oleh Krysa, received the award, which is…
When internationally renowned double bass soloist and Eastman School of Music Professor James VanDemark took up boxing two years ago, he saw immediate crossover benefits to his playing. VanDemark, a “lightweight” at only 5’6″ and 138 pounds, immediately thought of the impact boxing could have on his students, so he sent some of his women…
A Japanese legend promises that folding 1,000 paper cranes makes a wish come true. At the Eastman School of Music this Friday, April 1, members of the School’s community will show their support and raise funds for the victims of the earthquake in Japan with a “Day of One Thousand Cranes.” The event, which will…
Twelve exceptionally talented young singer-actors from the United States, United Kingdom, and China will compete for top prizes of $15,000, $10,000 and $7,500 in the finals of the 2011 Lotte Lenya Competition on Saturday, April 16, at the Eastman School of Music. The contestants will compete in front of a panel of judges composed of…
American and Russian music “From Times Square to Red Square” will fill the First Presbyterian Church of Albion at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 10. Â The concert, part of this season’s Eastman at Albion Courthouse Square concert series, will feature flutist Sophia Gibbs Kim and pianist Irina Lupines, faculty members at the Eastman Community Music…