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League of American Orchestras Rachelle Schlosser, Director of Media Relations and Communications rschlosser@americanorchestras.org, (646) 822-4027   The Eastman School of Music and the League of American Orchestras will collaborate on a one-year pilot program to co-produce and launch a new category of the Eastman Case Studies focused on orchestra management. Highlighting League member orchestras, the…

Dr. Jean M. Barr, Professor of Accompanying and Chamber Music and the Director of the Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music Degree Program at Eastman School of Music is retiring at the end of the 2018-19 school year. Eastman is proud to present an alumni concert, organized by alumni and friends, in her honor on May…

For the first time in its 25-year history, starting with this year’s festival, Gateways Music Festival in association with Eastman School of Music will begin charging admission to several of its events.  The 2019 Festival will be held August 6 through 11. Four of the 2019 Festival’s 17 public events will be ticketed or require…

Eastman School of Music faculty members, students, and alumni will join the worldwide observance of Yom HaShoah by performing a Holocaust Remembrance Concert entitled “A Time to Remember,” on Sunday, May 5, 2019, at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall. The concert features music written by those who perished or survived the World War II concentration…

On Saturday, April 20, 2019, The Eastman Presents Series and The Barbara B. Smith World Music Series welcomes Grammy-nominated ensemble Afro-Cuban All Stars at 7:30 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The Afro-Cuban All Stars is a 13-piece dream team of Cuba’s hottest musicians, brought together by musical director Juan de Marcos Gonzalez –…