Concert organist and Eastman School of Music faculty member Nathan Laube will present “Rochester’s Italian Baroque Organ, A Musical Cosmopolite”at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, in the Fountain Court at the Memorial Art Gallery.Featuring works by Cabanilles, Frescobaldi, Phillips, Rameau, Rossi, and others, the concert opens the 2014-2015 season of Third Thursday Concerts on…
Internationally noted jazz composer, arranger, and teacher Fred Sturm, an Eastman School of Music alumnus and faculty member from 1991 to 2002, died Sunday, August 24, in De Pere, Wis., following a long battle with cancer. He was 63 and was the Kimberly-Clark Professor of Music and director of jazz and improvisational music at Lawrence…
Gabriel Condon, a master’s degree student at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, was awarded first place in the jazz category of the 2014 Wilson Center Guitar Competition & Festival. Sponsored by the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts in Brookfield, Wis., the annual competition is conducted in four areas: rock/blues, fingerstyle,…
High school students interested in enhancing their music studies can ramp up their knowledge of music theory through a new interactive online video course offered by the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. Developed and taught by internationally known music theorist Steven Laitz and offered through the School’s Institute for Music Leadership, eTheory LIVE…
The Eastman School of Music’s annual Faculty Artist Series, supported by Patricia Ward-Baker, starts in September and features performances of every kind, from violin to tuba to jazz piano. The recitals give local music lovers the chance to hear the talented artists perform on their home turf during their busy schedules of frequent appearances across…
The Eastman School of Music will host 12 shows in its venues during the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival Sept. 18 to 27. Eastman faculty, students, and staff will also perform at other venues in and around downtown Rochester during this year’s event. For more on both Eastman and University of Rochester participation in the…
Several Eastman Community Music School (ECMS) students will be among six talented Young Artist Auditions award winners who will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, July 6, in Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall. Trombonist Philip Glick and guitarist David Steinhardt will appear, as will former ECMS student and tenor Anders Namestnik and…
Eastman School of Music students and ensembles have garnered prestigious national honors and awards at several annual competitions. In July, saxophonist Keenan McKoy (BM ‘14) won the national level of the NANM Competition in Los Angeles, Calif., and doctoral student Phil Pierick received third prize in the Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Competition in Bangkok, Thailand.…
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…