Capturing a definitive performance of one’s work can be a challenging task for even the most seasoned professional musicians. But for the Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media department (JCM) at the Eastman School of Music, the recording process has always been a crucial component of the learning process. For the past five years, the department…
Today, Friday, March 8, is International Women’s Day. In honor of female musicians around the world, we highlight ten outstanding Eastman women alumni (including one current graduate student) … bearing in mind that this alphabetical list represents only a tiny fraction of thousands of Eastman women who are changing the world of music. Congratulations to…
Here are some select clippings from the past week 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.) Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines (The New York Times 03/02/2019) And it’s difficult to imagine anyone else…
Jamie Clark and her teacher, David Ying By Sarah Forestieri Jamie Clark recalls that pivotal first moment she entered the Main Hall for her Eastman School of Music audition, “The brilliant energy bubbling within the school felt like the magic of Hogwarts. The feeling I came to learn wholeheartedly over the next four years was…
The Eastman-Ranlet Series bring the Elias String Quartet Sunday, March 24, at 3 p.m., in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. Taking its name from Mendelssohn’s oratorio, Elijah, of which Elias is the German form, the group has seen global success. Their program includes: Henry Purcell’s Fantasia in E Minor, Z. 741 and…
The Kilbourn Concert Series announces American cellist, Joshua Roman to perform in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music on Tuesday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. Repertoire will include Debussy’s Cello Sonata, Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 3, Op. 69, Louange á l’Éternité de Jésus by Oliver Messiaen, Fairy Tale by Leoš Janáček, Brothers by…
Here are some select clippings from the past week 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.) New Sounds from Eastman’s OSSIA (WXXI News 02/24/2019) A group of students at the Eastman School of Music wants to expand the…
Mari Tampere-Bezrodny Violin Master Class 10:30 am-12:30 pm Ciminelli Lounge Mari Tampere is a renowned violinist and violin pedagogue at Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and Sibelius Academy in Finland. Mari Tampere-Bezrodny family has longstanding musician traditions – her grandmother Jenny Simon was well-known singer and professor at Tallinn Conservatoire, her mother an organist and…
Ida Kavafian Violin Master Class Saturday, February 23, 2019 3:00-5:30 pm Ciminelli Lounge Internationally acclaimed as a violist as well as violinist, the versatile Ida Kavafian is an artist-member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and former violinist of the Beaux Arts Trio. For 34 years she has been artistic director of Music from Angel…
Put Eastman School of Music’s world-class string quartet-in-residence, the Ying Quartet, together in a room with Rochester’s award-winning masters of motion theatre, PUSH Physical Theatre, and what do you get? “Creative Collision is what we’re calling it,” says PUSH Co-Founder/Co-Director Darren Stevenson. “It’s something that can happen only when both groups are fully open to…
