Rochester, N.Y.–Ring in the holiday season with the Eastman Italian Baroque Organ at the Memorial Art Gallery! The Eastman School of Music will present a special hour-long holiday concert on the instrument, the only full-size Italian Baroque organ in North America, on Sunday, December 17 at 5:30 p.m. The recital will showcase Ulrika Davidsson, Instructor…
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Robert D. Levin, one of America’s leading keyboard players in the early instrument movement and best known as a Mozart pianist and scholar, will visit Eastman School of Music Thursday December 14 to deliver the inaugural lecture supported by the Glenn Watkins Lecture Fund. Levin’s talk, “The Challenges of Completing Mozart’s ‘C Minor Mass’”…
A concert featuring Eastman School of Music vocal faculty is set for Sunday, December 3 at 3 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall. The event will be held to benefit a new endowed scholarship that will be awarded in the future to an Eastman voice student. International Student Scholarship Fund Gala Benefit Concert Sunday, December 3 at…
The Eastman School of Music is proud to announce the winners of the 2006 Friends of Eastman Opera Voice Competition, which took place in Kilbourn Hall on Saturday, November 18. The first prize went to Jonathan Michie, baritone, a first year master’s student in the studio of Carol Webber. His Eastman Opera Theater credits include…
Eastman Wind Ensemble Mark Davis Scatterday, conductor Wednesday, November 8 Eastman Theatre – 8 p.m. Appearing with the Eastman Wind Ensemble Wednesday, November 8 will be several award winning Eastman students including Bobby Mitchell on piano. A senior, Mitchell has won several prestigious piano competitions. Most notably, he was the first recipient of the William…
Rochester, N.Y. — The sweet sounds of the human voice will ring through the halls of Eastman November 17 — 19, when three back-to-back events bring together vocal stars of today and tomorrow. The weekend begins with a performance by the Eastman Chorale November 17, continues with the Friends of Eastman Opera Sixth Annual Voice…
Rochester, N.Y. — The Eastman School of Music kicks off its popular World Music Series on Wednesday, November 8 with a performance by renowned American musician Mike Seeger. The concert will be held in Kilbourn Hall at 8 p.m. Seeger has devoted his life to singing, playing and writing about southern traditional mountain music. He…
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—A memorial concert celebrating the life and contributions of Richard Pearlman (1937 — 2006) will be held Saturday November 4 at 2 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music, 26 Gibbs St. Pearlman was part of the Eastman community as dramatic director of Eastman Opera Theatre beginning in 1976. He left…
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Eastman Opera Theatre begins its 2006-2007 season with an opera by an up-coming young composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who wrote his romantic comedy La finta giardiniera (The Disguised Garden Girl) in 1775, when he was only 19. While it had a successful premiere in Munich, Germany, the work has seldom been performed in the…