FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15, 2016 Cineshape featuring Amy Williams and the JACK Quartet Comes to the Eastman School of Music on May 3 Pianist/composer Amy Williams, along with the JACK Quartet, Linsey Goodman, flute, and Scott Christian, percussion, will be featured in a special performance of “Cineshape” at Eastman School of…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 14, 2016 Darren Mueller appointed to Musicology Department at the Eastman School of Music Rochester, NY – The Eastman School of Music is pleased to announce the appointment of Darren Mueller to the position of assistant professor of musicology starting in the fall semester of 2016-17. Darren has taught music…
EASTMAN PRESENTS 2016-2017 (All at 8:00 PM in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre) Thursday, September 29, 2016 Break of Reality Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Kelli O’Hara Saturday, November 12, 2016 Eastman Philharmonia Neil Varon, conductor Renée Fleming, soprano Program: Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole Kevin Puts: World Premiere Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 Monday, December 12, 2016 In War & Peace:…
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Renowned bassoonist and educator George Sakakeeny has been appointed to the faculty of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester beginning in the fall of 2016. He has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras around the world, including engagements in Vienna at the historic Musikverein, with the Cleveland Orchestra at…
Eastman’s Third Annual Holocaust Remembrance Concert, “A Time to Remember…”, will take place on May 1, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall. This year’s concert, performed by distinguished Eastman faculty members, showcases the music of Erwin Schulhoff, Viktor Ullmann, Robert Kahn, and Leroy Osman, composers who perished in or survived the Holocaust, or who…
On Friday, April 29, 2016, the Eastman School of Music will host a colloquium and concert honoring the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer Milton Babbitt. Milton Babbitt (1916–2011) was one of the most extraordinary American composers and musical thinkers of the twentieth century. According to Professor of Theory Zachary Bernstein, “Babbitt was a…
One of the greatest works in the repertoire for chorus and orchestra, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony, will be presented by forces from the Eastman School of Music on Friday, April 29 at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The immense work brings together the Eastman-Rochester Chorus, Eastman Chorale, and Eastman Philharmonia,…
“If Music Be the Food…”, the concert series benefiting Rochester’s Foodlink, will present the final concert of its seventh season on Monday, May 2, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at St Paul’s Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Road (at East Avenue) in Rochester. “If Music Be the Food…” is a grass roots community project whose mission is to increase awareness…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 28, 2016 Warren and Patricia Benson Forum on Creativity to Feature Deviant Septet This year’s Warren and Patricia Benson Forum on Creativity at the Eastman School of Music will feature a symposium, workshop, and concerts that engage the artistic partnership and interests of Warren and Pat Benson in the…