Eastman Community Music School students were awarded several awards at the recent Young Artist Auditions for high school musicians held by the Rochester Philharmonic League. Congratulations to the following ECMS students for their success in the 2023 YAA Competition: Grand Prize (an opportunity to perform with the RPO) Winner: Catalina Wooldridge, Cello, Grade 12, Williamson…
“Why would Florencia open her arms?” asks director Octavio Cardenas in a recent rehearsal of Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas, the first Spanish language opera to be performed by the Eastman Opera Theatre. The opera will run Thursday through Sunday, March 30 to April 2, in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. He instructs the…
Saxophonist Matthias Roth first came to Eastman as a Summer student. In 2018, he participated in Eastman Experience: Summer Classical Studies, and the following two summers he enrolled in the Eastman Summer Saxophone Institute for 2019 and 2020. Matthias went on to enroll at Eastman and is currently a sophomore in the studio of Chien-Kwan…
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.) Lance Reddick, ‘The Wire’ and ‘John Wick’ star, dies at 60 – ABC News (ABC News 03/17/2023) Reddick attended the prestigious Eastman School of…
Any fool can play the tuba. That’s a phrase Associate Professor of Tuba Don Harry has been known to tout. “He means that anyone can approach the tuba, but also, anyone can play it, so what makes you special,” says Michael Witt, one of the senior tuba players in Harry’s studio, who conducts the Tuba…
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