Eastman Jazz EnsembleDIRECTOR | Bill Dobbins The Eastman Jazz Ensemble has been recognized as one of the world’s premier collegiate jazz performing organizations for three decades. Years before Eastman alumnus Chuck Mangione became the ensemble’s first faculty director, the band was established and governed by Eastman student musicians. In 1970, former Radio City Music Hall…
Eastman Percussion EnsembleDIRECTOR | Michael Burritt The Eastman Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Michael Burritt, is a two-time winner of the Percussive Arts Society International Percussion Ensemble Competition and has performed at the international convention as a result in the 2013 and 2017. The group was also the featured ensemble at the 2009 Paris…
Collegium MusicumDIRECTOR | Paul O’Dette The Collegium Musicum performs music from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, with repertoire ranging from solo cantatas to madrigals, oratorios, operas, concertos, and other orchestral works. Recent concerts have included performances of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos, Handel’s Concerti Grossi, op. 3, Purcell’s King Arthur and The Fairy Queen, Lully’s Psyché and Thésée, Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo,…
Eastman School Symphony OrchestraDIRECTOR | Neil Varon The Eastman School of Music has three orchestras, regularly performing repertoire representative of all musical style periods. Two performing venues at Eastman allow students and faculty to present concerts in an acoustically fine and artistically well-conceived concert space: the newly-renovated Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, which seats approximately…
Eastman Studio OrchestraDIRECTOR | Bill Dobbins The Eastman Studio Orchestra combines the personnel of the Eastman Jazz Ensemble with a full complement of strings, woodwinds, French horns, tuba, harp, and percussion from Eastman’s two symphony orchestras. Using the large professional recording studio ensemble, Hollywood film soundstage orchestras, European radio orchestras, and the Radio City Music…
Eastman PhilharmoniaDIRECTOR | Neil Varon The Eastman School of Music has three orchestras, regularly performing repertoire representative of all musical style periods. Two performing venues at Eastman allow students and faculty to present concerts in an acoustically fine and artistically well-conceived concert space: the newly-renovated Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, which seats approximately 3,000, and…
Master DegreesMaster of Arts (MA) The Master of Arts degree program in composition at Eastman is offered under the division of graduate research studies. The emphasis in this degree program is on research rather than on the applied study of an instrument or voice. The MA requires 30 credit hours of study beyond the bachelor’s level with…
Undergraduate Composition Undergraduate composition students may elect to follow two parallel Bachelor of Music programs of study at the Eastman School: the BM degree majoring in Composition or the BM degree majoring in Musical Arts with a concentration in Composition. The latter program allows for greater flexibility in course electives and is recommended for those composers who have…
Composition students have a large array of performance venues for presenting their works to the musical public. Usually three composer forum concerts (each lasting one or one and a half hours) are presented each term devoted to the performance of student works. A number of readings and performances of new student works by the Eastman…
Here are some select recent clippings showing the variety of hits/mentions identifying musicians and scholars as Eastman School of Music alumni, faculty or students. (Note: Some links may have expired.) Eastman School of Music Centennial Celebration Hosts Conferences, Festivals, and Artists … (All About Jazz 10/13/2021) The Eastman School of Music, of the University of…
