Gateways Music Festival Launches 30th Anniversary Season with Events in Rochester & New York City

Gateways Music Festival in association with Eastman School of Music launches its landmark 30th anniversary season with a week of events in Rochester, NY and New York City from October 17-22, 2023. Rochester highlights include: an Eastman Presents concert featuring the newly formed Gateways Chamber Players, with award-winning TV and stage actress Phylicia Rashad as…

Guest Artists at Eastman: October 2023

We are excited to welcome a wide-ranging group of guest artists and lecturers to the Eastman campus in October! Keep reading for information about each event and visit esm.rochester.edu/events for further details. Any Eastman Presents series artist who is offering a free masterclass will be included in this list, but their corresponding concert is ticketed. All other guest…

New Professor Mikel Kuehn Showcases Eastman’s Upgraded Technologies with September Concerts in Hatch Recital Hall

Eastman’s electronic music composition studio is much different today than it was when new faculty member Mikel Kuehn ’93E (MA), ’95E (PhD) (pronounced “Michael Keen”) was a student in the early 1990s. Back then, says Kuehn, the computers were slow and the equipment finicky. It was the result of the nascent audio, recording, and computing…

Guests Artists at Eastman: September 2023

We are excited to welcome a wide-ranging group of guest artists and lecturers to the Eastman campus this month! Keep reading for information about each event and visit esm.rochester.edu/events for further details. All events are free and open to the public.   Wycliffe Gordon, jazz trombone Guest Masterclass: Saturday, September 16 at 2:30 p.m. |…

Alumna Gloria Mikialian '45E in a yellow dress at the piano. Date unknown.

Eastman Alumna Turns 100

Happy 100th birthday to Gloria Mikialian ’45E! The Eastman alumna born in 1923, who graduated Eastman in 1945 as a pianist, just turned 100 on August 30th. Gloria remembers receiving a full scholarship, which she was thankful for because her family couldn’t afford to pay Eastman tuition. To pay her room and board, she worked…

Eastman Welcomes 12 New Faculty Members

We welcome 12 new full-time faculty members, who bring extraordinary talent and fresh perspectives to Eastman. As an introduction, we asked the nine studio faculty to answer a few questions about their appointments: Why do you want to teach at Eastman? What are you most proud of in your career thus far? Share an interesting…

Eastman Organ Events – Fall 2023

The Eastman School of Music is excited to announce our calendar of organ events for the fall 2023 semester. Recurring series include “Tuesday Pipes” at Christ Church and “Going for Baroque” on Sundays at the Memorial Art Gallery. The “Third Thursdays” series at the Memorial Art Gallery, featuring Eastman’s exquisite Italian Baroque Organ, will begin…

Pianist Alexander Kobrin

Van Cliburn-Winning Pianist Alexander Kobrin Performs Beethoven’s Monumental Catalog of Piano Sonatas on Faculty Artist Series Recitals

When Eastman School of Music Professor of Piano Alexander Kobrin landed in Fort Worth, Texas for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2005, it was his first time in the United States. Born and trained in Moscow, Kobrin remembers his father was watching a documentary on Texas ranches and cowboys back in Russia at…

BIODANCE at the Rochester Museum & Science Center

OSSIA and BIODANCE Collaborate with Interactive Concerts Examining Climate Change

Collaborative performances by OSSIA New Music, the student-run new music organization at the Eastman School of Music, and BIODANCE, a contemporary dance company based in Rochester, will examine the topic of climate change and the merging of technology and nature. Using movement, music, and interactive technology, the performances on August 23 and 24, both at…