ROCHESTER, NY — Spring graduation ceremonies may pale in comparison to an upcoming performance opportunity for three select Eastman School of Music students who will represent the School in The Conservatory Project — an exciting new initiative through the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Chosen as a founding participant, Eastman leads off…
ROCHESTER, NY — Finals for the seventh annual Lotte Lenya Competition for Singers, which recognizes versatile young musical theater artists, are set for Saturday, March 27, 2004, at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. The first round will begin at noon in Eastman’s Kilbourn Hall (26 Gibbs St.) with a break at approximately…
ROCHESTER, NY — Small-town Tennessee comes to the Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.) this spring as Eastman Opera Theatre presents Carlisle Floyd’s American classic Susannah. Performances of the opera will be at 8 p.m., Thursday, April 1, through Saturday, April 3, and at 2 p.m., Sunday, April 4. Susannah is the compelling tale of an…
ROCHESTER, NY — When the Eastman Wind Ensemble makes its eighth Asian concert tour this spring, it will be an educational and challenging musical experience for the 52 performing students, and an exciting and entertaining experience for the audiences. So promises Music Director and Conductor Mark Scatterday, who took over the helm of the famed…
ROCHESTER, NY — The Eastman School of Music is welcoming spring with a double header of residencies by award-winning jazz artists Bob Brookmeyer and Bill Cunliffe. Both artists will be featured in upcoming concerts this month with Eastman’s jazz faculty and students. All concerts, detailed below, are free and open to the public. Bob Brookmeyer…
ROCHESTER, NY — The Eastman School of Music celebrates ‘Music in Our Schools’ month (March) with 40 chamber music groups performing nearly 80 educational concerts in schools and other community sites around Rochester from March 23-April 4, as part of the School’s “Music for All” program. Founded in 1995, “Music for All” strives to take…
ROCHESTER, NY — Two of the Eastman School of Music’s most versatile faculty artists — pianist Tony Caramia and trombonist Mark Kellogg — have joined forces for a new jazz CD that celebrates upstate New York. The CD, titled Upstate Standards, features the music of three prominent upstate New York composers: Alec Wilder (Rochester), Jimmy…
ROCHESTER, NY — The next step in the Eastman School of Music’s historically sensitive renovation to the Eastman Theatre stage has taken place, with the School recently awarding all the contracts for the $5 million project — the vast majority to firms and organizations in the greater Rochester area. Seven local firms — out of…
ROCHESTER, NY — As part of its ongoing season of outstanding modern works, Eastman Opera Theatre presents one of the greatest 20th-century operas, Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites. Performances will take place Wednesday through Saturday, February 11, 12, 13 & 14 at 8 p.m. For this winter production, directed by Steven Daigle, the setting…