Eastman Faculty Artist Series Spring 2022

The Eastman Faculty Artist Series announces 11 performances for the Spring 2022 semester, an opportunity for our world-renowned and internationally acclaimed faculty members to demonstrate their virtuosity and artistry in Eastman’s stunning concert venues. “It’s always a pleasure to begin a new season of showcasing Eastman’s world-class musicians and composers in our Faculty Artist Series,”…

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The Beal Institute Presents -Visual Music 4-January 13, 2022

The Beal Institute Presents: Visual Music 4.0: An Evening of Original Music Performed Live-to-Picture by the Empire Film and Media Ensemble

The Beal Institute, under the direction of Associate Professor Mark Watters, presents “Visual Music 4.0: An Evening of World-Premiere Film and Music Collaborations,” Saturday, February 26, 2022, at 8 PM in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music and this year’s presentation will feature the music of Eastman faculty and alumni. Compositions from Eastman’s Contemporary Media and…

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A Rhapsodic Return to Eastman for Carter Pann ‘94E

Professor of Piano Marina Lomazov In the early 1990s, when Carter Pann and Marina Lomazov were both pianists in the studio of Professor Barry Snyder, they probably never suspected that one of them would end up writing a piece that would be premiered by the other. Nearly three decades later, they have remained good friends,…

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Grammy Nominations

Eastman School of Music Alumni Receive GRAMMY Nominations

Several graduates of the Eastman School of Music have received nominations in the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.’s 64th GRAMMY Awards: Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: Steve Gadd ‘68E, At Blue Note Tokyo Best Instrumental Composition: Tom Nazziola ‘88E, Cat and Mouse Best Opera Performance: Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmeliteswith soprano Erin Morley ‘02E produced by a Producer…

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Trombones Tonight! Trombone Choir Celebrates 80 Years

Eastman Trombone Choir, conducted by Mark Kellogg and Larry Zalkind, plays during the interlude at the University of Rochester Eastman School of Music Commencement Ceremony, Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, May 15, 2016. Photograph by J. Adam Fenster / University of Rochester Eastman’s Trombone Choir performs numerous times throughout the school year, and an Eastman…

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Muffat and Frescobaldi on the Italian Baroque Organ

Eastman’s Italian Baroque Organ at the Memorial Art Gallery By Isabella Lau In a special collaboration with the Memorial Art Gallery, two rare scores from Eastman’s Sibley Music Library will accompany the gallery’s Third Thursday concert on November 18 with Eastman’s Italian Baroque Organ. Kola Owolabi, Professor of Organ at the University of Notre Dame,…

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