A “PIPE DREAM” NO LONGER, EASTMAN’S LATEST ORGAN PROJECT LINKS CULTURES ACROSS THE OCEAN

ROCHESTER, NY — As the Eastman School of Music prepares for its third annual Eastman-Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI) Festival, so does an international contingent of influential organ builders, prominent organ scholars and researchers, and important Lithuanian dignitaries. A major highlight of this year’s festival, October 21-24, is the first ever global cultural heritage project of…

WORLD PREMIERE OF FOUR SEASCAPES FOR CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA CELEBRATES CENTENNIAL OF EASTMAN SCHOOL’S FAMOUS SIBLEY MUSIC LIBRARY

ROCHESTER, NY — When Eastman School of Music Dean James Undercofler asked acclaimed composer and alumnus Dominick Argento (PhD ’58) to write a piece for the October 2004 centennial celebration of the School’s famed Sibley Music Library, it was clearly a match made in heaven. Considered America’s pre-eminent composer of lyric opera, the Pulitzer- and…

17-YEAR-OLD WINS EASTMAN’S 2004 YOUNG ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION

ROCHESTER, NY — An outstanding performance of Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 1 made Natalia Kazaryan, a 17-year-old originally from the Republic of Georgia, the first-place winner last night in the Eastman School of Music’s Eighth Annual Young Artists International Piano Competition. As top winner of the weeklong competition for talented 14- to 18-year-old pianists, Kazaryan receives…

EASTMAN THEATRE STAGE RENOVATIONS BEGIN

ROCHESTER, NY — Eastman Theatre temporarily becomes a construction zone today, as the Eastman School of Music’s $5 million dollar renovation to its Theatre’s stage begins in earnest at 60 Gibbs Street. The Theatre will be closed to the public throughout the remainder of the summer and into the early fall, with a grand reopening…

EASTMAN NAMES NEW FACULTY MEMBERS FOR 2004-05

Rochester, NY — The Eastman School of Music announces the appointment of eight distinguished performers and scholars to its 2004-05 faculty, effective July 1, 2004: Edward (Ted) Christopher will be filling a new position as assistant professor of opera, working under the guidance of Benton Hess and Steven Daigle. As a singer, he has appeared…

MORE GREAT MUSIC AT EASTMAN THIS SUMMER

ROCHESTER, NY — The Eastman School of Music heats up this summer with six weeks of outstanding music. The School will present more than 50 concerts and performances as part of its annual Summer Session (June 28-August 6). This year’s featured performers include members of the Eastman Community Music School faculty, Eastman’s collegiate faculty, special…