ROCHESTER, NY – It may be summer, but School and great music are in session at the Eastman School of Music. The School’s Community Education Division (CED) presents its annual summer concert series, as well as several other concerts connected to its Summer Session programs and workshops. The concerts – which range from classical to…
EASTMAN NAMES NEW DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR ROCHESTER, NY – The Eastman School of Music recently appointed Bruce Van Hise of Rochester as its new director of development and campaign manager, effective July 17. In this position, he will direct the School’s overall development efforts, with a special focus on the management of major fundraising campaigns. Van…
ROCHESTER, NY – An exciting program showcasing the classical guitar will usher in Summer Session 2000 at the Eastman School of Music. The Eastman Summer Guitarfest – a weeklong festival that will bring some of the world’s best professional classical guitarists and most advanced students to Rochester – returns June 22-27 for its second year,…
ROCHESTER, NY – The Eastman Wind Ensemble flies to Japan May 30 for a three-week, 13-concert tour with conductor Donald Hunsberger. This is the ensemble’s sixth tour sponsored by Sony Music Foundation with additional support from Eastman Kodak Company. The group is comprised of Eastman School of Music students selected by audition. For the first…
ROCHESTER, NY — With legendary producer Teo Macero at the console, the Eastman School of Music inaugurated its newly renovated main control room this spring with an ambitious recording of the Eastman Jazz Ensemble. The renovation included installation of a Euphonix CS-2000 console, Genelec monitors and outboard processors by T.C. Electronics, Millennia Media, Lexicon, and…
ROCHESTER, NY – For the third time in five years, the Eastman Jazz Ensemble – the premier jazz band of the Eastman School of Music – has been selected as one of the top large jazz ensembles in the country by Down Beat magazine, one of the country’s most respected jazz publications. In the June…
ROCHESTER, NY – Air travelers to and from the Greater Rochester International Airport are in for a rare musical treat at 4 p.m., Saturday, May 20: That’s when approximately 20 talented students from the Eastman School of Music’s Community Education Division (CED) will celebrate in song the centenary of composer Kurt Weill – as well…
ROCHESTER, NY – Patrick Macey, associate professor of musicology at the Eastman School of Music, recently was awarded the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize by the Renaissance Society of America for his book Bonfire Songs: Savonarola’s Musical Legacy. Macey’s book, published in 1998 by Oxford University Press, explores music in Florence in the 1490s during…
ROCHESTER, NY – Musica Nova, the Eastman School of Music’s new music ensemble, will present its final concert of the season at 8 p.m., Thursday, April 27, in Kilbourn Hall (26 Gibbs St.). The free concert features challenging works by Ligeti, Glass, and Reich – three prolific living composers, all of whom are innovators in…