ROCHESTER, NY — Retired Eastman School of Music faculty member Joseph Mariano, whose playing and teaching inspired generations of flutists and wind players throughout the world, returns to Rochester next month to be fêted for his nearly 40 years of teaching at the School, and for creating a following not soon to be forgotten. On…
ROCHESTER, NY — The Eastman School of Music today launched a new web site, intended to better showcase the many facets of the School to its numerous online visitors. The site, found at www.rochester.edu/Eastman, features a striking new design; improved functionality; increased information for prospective and current students, alumni, and other visitors; additional graphics; and…
ROCHESTER, NY — Seething Victorian London comes to Kilbourn Hall (26 Gibbs St.) this fall as Eastman Opera Theatre presents Stephen Sondheim’s musical thriller Sweeney Todd. Performances will be held at 8 p.m., Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, October 30-November 1, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, November 2. Sweeney Todd is the tale of a barber…
Rochester, NY — Amidst the striking Middle Ages and early Renaissance tapestries, sculptures, and frescoes in the dramatic second floor Fountain Court of the Memorial Art Gallery (MAG), one can almost hear the polyphonous strains of an 18th century organ resonating through the still air. That fantasy is about to meet reality thanks to a…
Rochester, NY — Late last month, Eastman piano student Sergio Monteiro left for Buenos Aires, Argentina, hoping to have a crack at placing in the second Martha Argerich International Piano Competition. Not only did the 29-year old doctoral student of Professor Nelita True walk away with the First Prize of $10,000, but he also shared…
ROCHESTER, NY — It’s carnival season in France, 1675. Ridicule and liberties abound, everyone is in disguise and nothing is as it appears. To celebrate this joyous season of masquerades, the incomparable composer Jean-Baptiste Lully from the court of Louis XIV is premiering Le Carnaval Mascarade, an entertaining musical theater pastiche from several of his…
ROCHESTER, NY — Zarina Melik-Stepanova, a 26-year old piano student of Natalya Antonova at the Eastman School of Music, has just played her way into a $10,000 first prize win and two years of professional career management through the Young Artists Auditions of the National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC). A native of Baku in…
ROCHESTER, NY — Mr. Xin Jia, “a poised and polished pianist” (Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY) from Shenyang, China, has taken first prize in the seventh annual Eastman School of Music Young Artists International Piano Competition, with second and third prizes going to two 17-year olds: Todd Yaniw from Waterloo, Ontario (Canada), and Evan Shinners…
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,…