Hans Abrahamsen, a Danish composer whose early work reflected the “New Simplicity” reaction to avant-garde complexity, will be in residence at the Eastman School of Music in April as this year’s Howard Hanson Visiting Professor of Composition. Abrahamsen’s work will be performed by Eastman’s Musica Nova at 8 p.m. Monday, April 8, in Kilbourn Hall,…
Over the next few weeks, Eastman School of Music students will be reaching out into the community with classical music, presenting interactive concerts in schools, libraries, churches, nursing homes, hospitals, and other locations. The events are part of the School’s “Music for All” initiative, a chamber music program designed to take classical music out of…
Dora A. Hanninen, Associate Professor and Chair of Music Theory and Composition in the School of Music at the University of Maryland College Park, will deliver the second of the John Cage Centennial Lectures at the Eastman School of Music at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in Room 404 of the School. Hanninen, who received…
JACK Quartet, which had its start at the Eastman School of Music and has been described in The New York Times as “luminaries of the contemporary classical-music world” and as one “of the most prominent new-music ensembles in New York,” returns to its alma mater in April. The ensemble will perform a concert celebrating contemporary…
The following post was written by Katie Hagen, a current DMA viola student at Eastman. Thanks Katie! So, you’re about ready to finish up your undergraduate degree, and thinking about graduate school. Here are some thoughts on the difference between undergraduate and graduate degrees, and about graduate study at Eastman. Assistantships/Fellowships. Grad schools want to…
The Eastman School of Music has announced that Mark Berry has been appointed Executive Director of Communications. In this position, he will manage all aspects of the School’s strategic communications program, including developing and overseeing marketing, media relations, public relations, publications, and design. Berry has worked in arts marketing and arts administration for more than…
Kurt Weill’s Street Scene, which The New York Times called “the most important step towards significantly American opera” when it premiered in 1947, will be presented by Eastman Opera Theatre April 4 through 7. Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, Street Scene garnered Weill the first Tony Award for Best Original…
Keyboardist, singer, and composer David Paich, a member of the rock group Toto, and drummer Dennis Mackrel, leader of the Count Basie Orchestra, will perform with the Eastman School of Music’s Chamber Jazz Ensemble on Friday, March 22. The concert, at 8 p.m. in the School’s Kilbourn Hall, features the works of Paich’s father, legendary…
