EASTMAN GIVES BACK TO ROCHESTER By Dan Gross Recent graduates are using their talents and their entrepreneurial skills to enrich the Rochester community with music More and more Eastman students recognize that to ensure the future of music, they must bring their music to the wide public – especially in communities that are underserved or…
The annual meeting of the American Musicological Society will take place at the Riverside Convention Center and the Rochester Riverside and Hyatt Hotels, 9-12 November 2017. Many events and performances will be held at the Eastman School of Music. The Society is the world’s largest organization dedicated to the study of music as a scholarly…
The Eastman School of Music Organ Department is happy to announce the roster for this year’s season of Community Concerts, short organ recitals by Eastman students as part of the department’s ongoing initiative to bring outstanding organ music to the Rochester community. From October to May, students will perform in monthly concerts in local churches…
By Myles Boothroyd In the thirteenth century, nuns living in convents were not unlike many of our devoted Eastman students on their way to the practice room: cloistered and intensely focused on music-making, sometimes at the expense of a full night’s rest. They learned Gregorian chant and psalms, music for the daily Mass, and choral…
A story that is ignited with passion, drama and political intrigue in ancient Rome will be portrayed in Eastman Opera Theatre’s upcoming performance of L’Incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea) by Claudio Monteverdi on November 2, 3, 4, and 5 in Kilbourn Hall. Considered Monteverdi’s final masterpiece, with libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello, the…
Marina Lomazov, an internationally renowned concert pianist whose New York debut performance was called “dazzling” by the New York Times chief music critic, Anthony Tommasini, will join the Eastman School of Music as Professor of Piano in the fall of 2018. Subsequent to winning prizes in numerous competitions, including the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition,…
ROCHESTER, NY — The Eastman School of Music is proud to announce the creation of the Snooky Young Endowed Scholarship, in honor of one of the foremost influences for lead trumpet in jazz orchestras. Clay and Betty Jenkins established this scholarship to support jazz majors from historically underrepresented populations who have aspirations to attend The…
By Dan Gross For a brief moment, the video took over the Internet. A young man on his side with sax in hand, his brain exposed, played a beautiful melody, and the operating room cheered. But there’s more to the story. The musician, Dan Fabbio, had a tumor in his superior temporal gyrus, the area…
October 11, 2017 ROCHESTER, NY –- The University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music will award Honorary Doctor of Music degrees to renowned drummer Steve Gadd (BM ’68) and to legendary jazz keyboardist and composer Chick Corea. The awards will be made to the duo, who have been on a world tour together during the…