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Professor Mark Kellogg talks about the Eastman Summer Trombone Institute, celebrating its 19th season!

Celebrating Katherine Ciesinski, Martin E. and Corazon D. Sanders Professor of Voice; Renée Jolles, Wegman Family Professor of Violin; and Holly Watkins, Minehan Family Professor, for Women’s History Month.

Even for fans of serial music, the tightly constructed nature of pitches arranged without the safety net of functional harmony is hard to ascertain upon hearing. But for Robert Morris, the venerable professor of composition at the Eastman School of Music who retires at the end of the academic year after 44 years teaching at…

When composer Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez was growing up in Mexico, he started a rock band. He wrote the music and told his band members to go home and practice so they could show up prepared for rehearsals. “I ran my band like one would run a chamber ensemble,” he says. “I didn’t know that at the…

Dr. Justin Benavidez and S@E seek applicants who are enthusiastically looking to improve their performance skills in an engaging summer experience.

The James E. Clark Chamber Music Residency welcomes The JACK Quartet and WindSync to Eastman this spring semester.

An interview with Summer@Eastman alumnus and Eastman DMA conducting student Mason St. Pierre.

The Maple Quartet, an undergraduate string quartet at Eastman School of Music, is the 2023-24 recipient of the newly created Celentano String Quartet Award.

The Eastman School of Music is pleased to highlight some of the premier concerts and events taking place on Gibbs Street this April. From a Rochester debut performance by GRAMMY-winning supergroup säje to Eastman Opera Theatre’s evocative presentation of Dialogues des Carmélites, these events have something for everyone. All are held in Eastman’s stunning concert…