Jo Kondo, one of Japan’s most distinguished composers and an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, will be in-residence at the Eastman School of Music from Monday, Nov. 30, through Friday, Dec. 4, as Howard Hanson Visiting Professor. During his stay, Kondo will attend rehearsals and a concert by the student-run…
For the first time as part of the Eastman Colloquium, 135 freshman and transfer students from the Eastman School of Music visited the University of Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery. During the two-hour session on Tuesday, Nov. 10, Eastman faculty members Michael Anderson and Rachel Remmel and doctoral student Naomi Gregory and MAG Curator of European…
A concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, by Michael Unger, assistant professor of organ and harpsichord at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, kicks off the 2015-2016 season of Third Thursday Concerts with Eastman School of Music’s Italian Baroque Organ at the Memorial Art Gallery. Titled “Sonatas, Suites, and Variations,” the program will…
Seth Monahan, associate professor of music theory at the Eastman School of Music, has been named the recipient of the Society for Music Theory’s 2015 Emerging Scholar Award. The award recognizes significant contributions to music theory, analysis, or history of theory in work published in the prior three years. Monahan was recognized for his article…
The Eastman School of Music Organ Department kicks off a new season of Community Concerts at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Rd. The concert series features short organ recitals by Eastman students as part of the department’s ongoing initiative to bring outstanding organ music to the Rochester community.…
Potential Itzhak Perlmans can try their hand at playing the violin – or the viola or cello – at the Eastman Beginning Strings Fall Open House on Saturday, Nov. 7. Eastman Beginning Strings, a program of the Eastman Community Music School, is designed for 4-to-12-year-olds. Budding musicians and their parents can learn about lessons and…
James Ross, a percussionist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has been named Instructor of Percussion at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. Ross became a member of the Chicago Symphony in 1979 and since that time he has performed thousands of concerts with the orchestra, both at its home in Symphony Center and…
Eastman School of Music faculty and alumni will gather on Saturday, Oct. 24, to present a “Celebration of the Life of Lynn Blakeslee.” Scheduled for 3 p.m. in the School’s Hatch Recital Hall, the event will feature recordings of the internationally acclaimed violinist with the ensemble Streichquintett Mozarteum, in which she was the first violinist,…
William VerMeulen, Principal Horn of the Houston Symphony and Professor of Horn at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, will conduct three residencies at the Eastman School of Music during the 2015-2016 academic year. Called “one of today’s superstars of the international brass scene,” Professor VerMeulen has forged a career as soloist, chamber musician, master…