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EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC ALUMNI AND FACULTY RECEIVE GRAMMY NOMINATIONS

Several graduates and a faculty member of the Eastman School of Music have received nominations in the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.’s 61st GRAMMY Awards: Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: Steve Gadd (BM68), The Steve Gadd Band Best Jazz Vocal Album: The Subject Tonight is Love, with Gary Versace, Associate Professor of Jazz […]

December 11, 2018

Eastman Community Music School Celebrates Annual “Winterfest”

Eastman Community Music School (ECMS) will host its annual ‘Winterfest” Saturday, December 15 at the Eastman School of Music in several concert halls and classrooms across the campus. Each year since 1998, the Eastman Community Music School showcases the talent and musicianship of its students during an annual celebration of the winter season. An extravaganza […]

December 5, 2018

Prophet of Freedom: Honoring Frederick Douglass in Word and Song

MEDIA CONTACT: Sandra Knispel Sandra.knispel@rochester.edu, 585.200.7571 (cell) A culmination of Rochester’s 200th anniversary celebration of Frederick Douglass’s birth What? *Renowned Yale University historian and Douglass biographer David Blight will speak about Frederick Douglass’s life in Rochester *Live performance by two Eastman School of Music students (Jonathan Rhodes, tenor, and Lee Wright, piano) of a […]

November 27, 2018

The Faculty Artist Series Presents: Eastman Virtuosi

The Faculty Artist Series presents Eastman Virtuosi Saturday, December 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. The performance is made up of faculty members Mikhail Kopelman, violin; Steven Doane, cello; Alexander Kobrin, piano; and George Taylor, viola, with additional violinist Willa Finck. The group will be playing Shostakovich’s Quintet […]

November 16, 2018

The Faculty Artist Series Presents: Bill Dobbins, Piano

The Faculty Artist Series presents pianist Bill Dobbins, Professor of Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media, Monday, December 3, at 7:30 p.m., in Hatch Recital Hall, at the Eastman School of Music. Bill Dobbins is professor of jazz studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he teaches the jazz composing and […]

November 16, 2018

The Faculty Artist Series Presents: Marina Lomazov, Piano

The Faculty Artist Series presents Marina Lomazov, Professor of Piano at Eastman, Saturday, December 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall. The concert features Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition with additional works by Alexander Scriabin, John Fitz Rogers, and Nikolai Kapustin. Praised by critics as “a diva of the piano” (Salt Lake City Tribune), “a […]

November 16, 2018

The Kilbourn Concert Series Presents: New York Polyphony

The Kilbourn Concert Series presents New York Polyphony on December 11, 2018, at 7:30 p.m., in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. New York Polyphony consists of: Geoffrey Williams, countertenor; Steven Caldicott Wilson, tenor; Christopher Dylan Herbert, baritone; and Craig Phillips, bass. Praised for a “rich, natural sound that’s larger and more complex […]

November 16, 2018

Eastman Jazz Ensemble Brings Artist-in-Residence Grammy-Award Winning Danilo Pérez

Grammy-award winning jazz pianist Danilo Pérez will be a visiting guest artist at the Eastman School of Music this month. He will perform alongside the Eastman Jazz Ensemble on their concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 29, in Kilbourn Hall, under the direction of Bill Dobbins, Associate Professor of Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media at […]

November 14, 2018

“Organ and the Opera” at the Memorial Art Gallery

Third Thursday concert series with Eastman’s Italian Baroque organ will be featuring Italian opera of the Nineteenth Century this November. This popular music genre had a vibrant life of its own outside the Italian theater, and the organ in the church became the vehicle of this music for a larger number of people who could […]

November 9, 2018

RCORS Presents: Renée Anne Louprette

The Rochester Celebrity Organ Recital Series (RCORS), together with the Eastman School of Music, presents the first concert of the season with organist Renée Anne Louprette, Friday, November 30th at 7:30 p.m. at Christ Church, 141 East Avenue. Louprette will also be giving a master class on Saturday, December 1, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 […]

November 9, 2018