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Ying Quartet Returns to Eastman-Ranlet Series, Featuring Masumi Per Rostad, viola—New Faculty Member at Eastman School of Music

The internationally renowned, award-winning Ying Quartet is back in its prominent position within the Eastman-Ranlet Series, with a presentation Sunday, January 21, at 3 p.m., Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. Featuring violist, Masumi Per Rostad in a program that includes Mozart’s String Quintet in G minor, K. 516 and Brahms’ String Sextet…

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“Strings and Pipes” at the Memorial Art Gallery

The Third Thursday concert series with Eastman’s Italian Baroque Organ continues in January with “Strings and Pipes,” a program exploring the variety and color of Baroque keyboard music. The concert features works for harpsichord and organ, including a rare chance to hear these instruments in duo performance. The music begins at 7:30PM on Thursday, January…

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Warfield Scholarship 41st Anniversary Concert Features Tenor Jonathan Rhodes, Eastman School of Music scholarship winner

Since it was founded in 1977, the William Warfield Scholarship Fund has provided financial aid to more than 35 students at the Eastman School of Music, and spotlighted talented recipients in an annual benefit concert. The 41st anniversary benefit concert will be held in the School’s Kilbourn Hall on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018, at 4…

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Evening of Music Celebrates Rochester-Velikiy Novgorod Sister Cities Connection

A diverse program of vocal and instrumental works by Russian composers, presented by the Eastman Community Music School (ECMS) and Linkages of Rochester, Inc., will celebrate Rochester’s connection to its sister city of Veliky Novgorod. The 12th annual collaborative event, titled “A Russian-American Friendship Concert,” will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 4, Kilbourn…

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GATEWAYS MUSIC FESTIVAL RECEIVES $300,000 AWARD FROM THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION

Media Contact: Dolores Orman, Gateways Music Festival, 585-271-5185, dolores.orman@gmail.com   Gateways Music Festival, in association with the Eastman School of Music, has been awarded a $300,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  Gateways, whose mission is to connect and support professional classical musicians of African descent, will use the grant to strengthen its administrative and…

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