March is Women’s History Month, a chance to reflect upon and celebrate the contributions and achievements of women throughout history. Women have significantly contributed to the Eastman School of Music and this month we honor the long history of women who have impacted the Sibley Music Library, one of the crown jewels of both Eastman…
Two major Rochester, NY institutions, Eastman Community Music School (ECMS) and The Strong National Museum of Play (The Strong), have formalized their existing partnership by expanding musical programming offered to the museum’s patrons, predominantly focusing on events for children and seniors. These well-known institutions have worked together for many years, but the onset of COVID-19,…
The Eastman Philharmonia and Eastman-Rochester Chorus (ERC) will present Ralph Vaughan Williams’ grand first symphony A Sea Symphony on Friday, April 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The concert will be conducted by Dr. William Weinert and features solos by current DMA students Sofia Scattarreggia ‘21E (MM), soprano, and S Joshua…
The Eastman Summer Trombone Institute (ESTI) is an intensive weeklong program for players who wish to challenge themselves to be the most complete trombonist and musician possible. To learn more about what ESTI has to offer for Summer 2023, Summer@Eastman Marketing Assistant Joyce Tseng talked with Mark Kellogg, Eastman faculty and ESTI Director. JT: For…
The Eastman Wind Ensemble invites another guest performer for its upcoming concert on Wednesday, March 29 at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall: Patrick Morgan, the principal clarinetist of the “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band. This time, the Eastman connection is traced to doctoral conducting assistant Andres Luke Camarillo. The concert marks Camarillo’s final…
“Why would Florencia open her arms?” asks director Octavio Cardenas in a recent rehearsal of Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas, the first Spanish language opera to be performed by the Eastman Opera Theatre. The opera will run Thursday through Sunday, March 30 to April 2, in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. He instructs the…
Saxophonist Matthias Roth first came to Eastman as a Summer student. In 2018, he participated in Eastman Experience: Summer Classical Studies, and the following two summers he enrolled in the Eastman Summer Saxophone Institute for 2019 and 2020. Matthias went on to enroll at Eastman and is currently a sophomore in the studio of Chien-Kwan…
Any fool can play the tuba. That’s a phrase Associate Professor of Tuba Don Harry has been known to tout. “He means that anyone can approach the tuba, but also, anyone can play it, so what makes you special,” says Michael Witt, one of the senior tuba players in Harry’s studio, who conducts the Tuba…
Eastman School of Music faculty members, students and alumni will join the worldwide observance of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) by presenting a concert titled “A Time to Remember” on Sunday, April 16, 2023, at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall. The concert features music written by those who perished or survived the World War II…
A kid from Buffalo, Malcolm J. Merriweather ‘10E (MM) never believed he could make it big as a singer and conductor in New York City. But Rita Shane, his vocal professor at Eastman, did. “She emphasized over and over, ‘Malcolm, you have to come to New York, you’re made for New York. You are going…