ROCHESTER, N.Y. — In April 2006, the Eastman School of Music’s Institute for Music Leadership launched something brand-new: Polyphonic.org, a professional development website for orchestra musicians. In April 2007, as it celebrates its first anniversary, Polyphonic.org is emerging as an innovative resource for information on orchestra life. It has created a network and a sense…
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Eastman School of Music students triumphed at the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Young Artists Competition, held last month in Toronto. Violinist Anat Kardontchik, student of Distinguished Professor of Violin Zvi Zeitlin, won First Prize in the Strings Division. Israeli-born Anat is a senior in Professor Zeitlin’s class. Her family resides in…
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—The Eastman School of Music concludes its eclectic Mosaic Series with violinist Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra on Sunday, April 22 at 3 p.m. in the Eastman Theatre. Kremer has established a worldwide reputation as one of the most original and compelling artists of his generation. In 1997, after almost three…
The Eastman School of Music proudly announces that four members of the Eastman community were recently given 2007 Fulbright Awards to live and study abroad: Jay Kacherski, Masters of Music in Guitar Performance Alumnus (2005) from Hopewell Junction, New York, was awarded a Fulbright grant to spend a year in Mexico City, Mexico, researching, studying…
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—. Love and war, politics and religion, past and future collide in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi (The Capulets and the Montagues), a gripping version of the Romeo and Juliet story by the composer of Norma. Eastman Opera Theatre continues its 2006-2007 season with this rarely performed, but beautiful and dramatic, work. While…
ROCHESTER, NY — Eastman School of Music students will bring their talents and passion for music to the community later this month, thanks to the School’s unique Music For All program. Small ensembles of two to six musicians will perform for audiences ranging from first graders to senior citizens. Approximately 180 Eastman students will take…
When the Italian Baroque organ was installed at the Memorial Art Gallery in 2005, it marked the beginning of the Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI) — a long-range plan to assemble a collection of new and historic organs in Rochester. First stages of construction for the next phase of the plan — building a new…
The Eastman School of Music announces its first Howard Hanson Visiting Professor of Composition, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Mario Davidovsky, who will be in residence at the School from March 25 until April 21. The Eastman School’s Hanson Institute for American Music funds the position of Howard Hanson Visiting Professor. (For more about the Hanson…
One of America’s most respected and popular composers, Steve Reich, will visit the Eastman School of Music on March 31, as part of Reich’s worldwide 70th birthday celebrations. Reich’s time at Eastman includes a symposium with the composer speaking about his music to students, and he will attend a Musica Nova concert of four of…