Two Eastman School of Music graduates, Natalie Ballenger and Diana Rose Becker, are among the 14 singer-actors in the finals of the 2014 Lotte Lenya Competition, which will be held on Saturday, April 12, in Eastman’s Kilbourn Hall. They will compete for top prizes of $15,000, $10,000, and $7,500 in front of judges Rob Berman,…
Israeli-born composer Chaya Czernowin, whose works present challenging sonic landscapes of atypical and complex structures, will be at the Eastman School of Music from Monday, April 7, to Friday, April 11. During her residency as the Howard Hanson Visiting Professor of Composition, Czernowin will hold master classes, meet privately with composition students, and attend rehearsals…
For some members of the United States Army Field Band, the group’s Sunday, March 23, concert at the Eastman School of Music will be a homecoming performance at their alma mater. In addition, a dozen current Eastman students will take to the stage during the free public performance, which starts at 2 p.m. in Kodak…
Soprano Julia Bullock, who received her Bachelor of Music degree at the Eastman School of Music in 2009, was named the winner of the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation’s International Vocal Competition following the finals in New York City on Friday, March 14. The Naumburg international competitions rotate annually among voice, violin, and piano, and have…
Opera was a source of national identity and pride in 19th-century Italy. Church organists were even encouraged to bring the sounds of the opera into the sanctuary, where it could be available to all, including those who couldn’t afford an opera ticket. The unfamiliar but highly enjoyable 19th-century Italian organ repertoire will be featured alongside…
World-renowned flutist Sir James Galway will be awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Music by the University of Rochester when he performs on NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 19. The series was brought to Rochester by WXXI and the University’s Eastman School of Music to record a…
Eastman School of Music saxophonists will be performing both as invited guest artists and as competition participants at the North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from Thursday, March 20, through Sunday, March 23. The Eastman Saxophone Project, created in 2010 as a conductor-less saxophone ensemble, will be featured…
The works of Italo Calvino, one of the most important Italian writers of the 20th century, are the inspiration for a collaborative music-literature-theater project spearheaded by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez and Elena Bellina of the Eastman School of Music. Together with the bilingual New York City–based troupe Kairos Italy Theater and its Artistic Director Laura Caparrotti, the…
Voice students who want to perfect how they sing their vowels could get help from a new simple, free application developed by a group of University of Rochester students who developed it as part of their Human-Computer Interaction computer science class. Ehsan Hoque, an assistant professor in computer science who recently joined the University and…
Dialogues of the Carmelites, a lushly melodic opera with a dramatic story inspired by real events, will receive four performances by Eastman Opera Theatre beginning Thursday, April 3. The Voice and Opera Department has dedicated the production of Dialogues of the Carmelites to the memory of Gerald Lee, who for more than 30 years worked…