ROCHESTER, NY – A bit of Hollywood comes to Rochester later this month when John Williams, the Oscar- and Grammy Award-winning musician best known for composing the music for many of the biggest films in movie history, pays a visit to the Eastman School of Music. He will guest conduct the School’s premier orchestra, the…
ROCHESTER, NY – Rochester audiences will have the chance to hear and see the magical music, dance, and costumes of Bali again this year when the Eastman School of Music’s Balinese Gamelan Lila Muni ("Beautiful Sound") and Gamelan Kembang Salju ("Flower in the Snow") present an evening of sacred, secular, traditional, and new Balinese music…
ROCHESTER, NY — The Eastman Opera Theatre will complete its season of 20th-century opera productions with American composer Kirke Mechem’s comic opera Tartuffe. Performances will be at 8 p.m., Thursday-Saturday, April 5-7, and at 2 p.m., Sunday, April 8, in the Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.). Based on Molière’s farcical play of the same name,…
ROCHESTER, NY – Again this summer, the Eastman School of Music (located in Rochester, NY) will offer an exciting array of summer institutes, classes, and workshops for college students, music teachers, and professional musicians through its annual Summer Session, which runs from June 25-August 3. Led by nearly 50 Eastman faculty members and prominent guest…
ROCHESTER, NY — March 20th becomes “Music for All Day” again this year when more than 40 student chamber music ensembles from the Eastman School of Music perform in city, private, and suburban schools around the greater Rochester area. This is the second year in a row that a specific day has been set aside…
ROCHESTER, NY – The prominent composer John Adams, whose orchestral works make him the most frequently performed living American composer, will pay a visit to the Eastman School of Music from March 17-19. In addition to working with composition students and presenting a master class at the School, he will attend rehearsals and a concert…
ROCHESTER, NY – Chicago Symphony Orchestra Resident Conductor William Eddins, who has rapidly established himself as one of America’s most promising young conductors, returns to his alma mater, the Eastman School of Music, to guest conduct the Eastman Philharmonia at 8 p.m., Friday, March 2, in the Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.). Admission is free.…
ROCHESTER, NY — The electrifying sounds of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, hailed by Billboard magazine as “a living testament to the beauty and artistry of big-band music,” will fill Eastman Theatre at 8 p.m., Saturday, February 24, as part of the Eastman School of Music’s “Day and Night of Jazz.” The concert is presented in…
ROCHESTER, NY – A rarely heard but historically significant instrument soon will join the Eastman School of Music’s collection of early instruments, the result of the School’s commissioning of a strict reproduction of a rare 18th-century pedal clavichord. (The original, built in 1766, is housed in the instrument collection of the Grassi Museum in Leipzig,…