Pianist/composer Max Berlin and trumpeter Emanuel Burks have been named the recipients of this year’s Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival/Eastman School of Music Scholarship and will attend Eastman this fall as freshman in the Department of Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media. The scholarship program is sponsored by Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival producers Marc Iacona and…
Eastman School of Music musicians — current students, faculty, staff, and alumni as well as students and faculty from the Eastman Community Music School (ECMS) — will be appearing in more than two dozen shows during the 2014 Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (XRIJF). This year’s festival runs June 20 through 28 at 18 venues,…
Donald J. Shetler, professor emeritus at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester and a bold pioneer in the field of music education, died Saturday, May 31, in Mount Pleasant, S.C. He was 87 years old. Known internationally for his research in fetal music response and arts education curriculum development, Professor Shetler…
Incoming Eastman School of Music freshman Leonardo Colafelice of Italy was awarded a finalist prize in the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition at the conclusion of the event on May 29. As a finalist, he received a cash award of $6,000. In addition, he received the $5,000 prize for Best Performer of a Classical…
A weekly radio series featuring Eastman School of Music jazz performances through the years premieres at 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 4, on Jazz90.1 WGMC. Titled Jazz@Eastman: Past, Present, and Future, the programs will feature performances as well as works by Eastman faculty, students, and alumni. The series is a collaboration between Eastman and Jazz 90.1…
Jamal Rossi, Joan and Martin Messinger Dean of the Eastman School of Music Eastman School Background Jamal J. Rossi has been named the Joan and Martin Messinger Dean of the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, pending board approval, University President Joel Seligman announced today. Rossi, 55, came to Eastman in 2005 as senior…
Samuel Hope, a longtime unceasing advocate for arts education who recently retired as executive director of the National Association of Schools of Music, will return to his alma mater as the commencement speaker for the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music graduation on Sunday, May 18. In addition, Associate Professor of Music Theory William…
RocMusic, a community-based program that provides after-school tuition-free music and string instruction to children in the City of Rochester, will hold its first annual benefit event on Friday, May 16. Funds raised will be used to purchase instruments for current and future students. The benefit event, which will be held at the David F. Gantt…
Saxophonist Phil Pierick, a doctoral student at the Eastman School of Music, has received a Fulbright Study/Research Grant and will spend the 2014-2015 academic year in Austria. There, he will be studying contemporary music performance practice with Lars Mlekusch at the Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität in Vienna. A staunch advocate for new music, Pierick has commissioned…
DownBeat, often described as “the bible of jazz,” has recognized the Eastman School of Music’s Eastman Chamber Jazz Ensemble under director Jeff Campbell for outstanding undergraduate college performance in the magazine’s 37th annual Student Awards competition. The publication also chose a work by Eastman musician Michael Conrad as the best original composition for a large…