ROCHESTER, NY ― An outstanding final-round performance of Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 ― with the Odessa National Philharmonic ― won Eastman School of Music student Grace Lee the silver prize in the first-ever David Oistrakh International Violin Competition, held in September in the legendary city of Odessa in the Ukraine. As second-place winner, Lee…
ROCHESTER, NY ― There’s a flurry of jazz coming to Gibbs Street in mid-November. Three outstanding ― and free ― performances by the Eastman School of Music’s award-winning jazz ensembles and some exciting guest artists are sure to keep things “heated up” inside while the temperatures drop outside. All concerts will take place in Kilbourn…
ROCHESTER, NY — At the birth of America’s Roaring ’20s, a small group of visionary civic leaders in a mid-sized Western New York city came together with the dream of forming a world-class school of music. The story of how, in 1921, Rochester industrialist, entrepreneur and philanthropist George Eastman founded the Eastman School of Music,…
ROCHESTER, NY — An intriguing new opera by Charles Strouse — one of Broadway’s most prolific composers and one of the Eastman School of Music’s most illustrious alumni — launches Eastman Opera Theatre’s new season this fall. The world premiere performances of Strouse’s new work, The Future of the American Musical Theater, will take place…
ROCHESTER, NY — With a percussion fanfare written especially for the occasion, the curtain rose for the very first time today on the Eastman Theatre’s $5 million stage renovation. In a short ceremony this afternoon in the historic Theatre, Eastman School Dean James Undercofler — accompanied by University of Rochester President Thomas H. Jackson, Rochester…
ROCHESTER, NY — Zvi Zeitlin, distinguished Kilbourn professor of violin at the Eastman School of Music, received one of the University of Rochester’s highest teaching honors — the Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching — at the Eastman School’s Convocation ceremony held earlier this month. Awarded within University of Rochester schools with…
ROCHESTER, NY — Robert Morris, chair of the Composition Department of the Eastman School of Music, has again found inspiration in the sights and sounds of nature, and produced a second work that draws audiences not into the concert hall but rather into a beautiful natural environment. Morris has written a new outdoor piece, Coming…
ROCHESTER, NY ― Eastman Theatre’s “extreme makeover” ― a $5 million renovation to its stage ― is nearing completion on time and on budget, and the excitement is mounting. The stage renovation, announced publicly in February 2003, is the first of two phases of historically sensitive renovations that the Eastman School of Music has planned…
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…