Spring 2024 Chamber Music Group Enrollment Forms: Strings/Piano Group Form Brass Group Form Winds Group Form This is a departmental form that allows the chamber music faculty to keep track of pre-formed groups, help form groups that need players, and assign coaches and repertoire. In addition to filling out this form, you still need to…
“My introduction to chamber music at Eastman changed my life, and it has changed the lives of countless other musicians I know. I’m forever grateful for the education I received and the rewarding relationships, creative and personal, that continue to grow from this community.” Emlyn Johnson, Music in the American Wild
“My love of chamber music was sparked at Eastman, and all these years later it’s still a huge part of what I love most in my career. Additionally, chamber ensembles are professionally, logistically, and fiscally nimble (a handy thing in times like these)… My advice to any student — do as much great chamber music as you possibly can!” Jennie Oh Brown, Artistic Director of Picosa, Ear Taxi Festival; Faculty, Wheaton College, Elmhurst University
“Chamber music has had a much more significant impact on my life than I ever could have imagined.” Uday Singh, Scio Quartet
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“Chamber music (especially at Eastman) has been a massive inspiration to me in ways that I didn’t expect. Arriving at Eastman I found it so unique that we had a woodwind quintet class for all incoming freshman (something I have found to be unique when I talk to friends at other conservatories). That course was a fantastic plunge into the world of chamber music, and I found that chamber performances quickly became some of my favorite playing.” Harrison Short, bassoon, Sequoia Reed Quintet
Eastman Opera Theatre (EOT) is thrilled to continue its season with the zany baroque opera La Calisto by Francesco Cavalli, February 16, 17, 22, and 23 at 7:30 p.m. Unlike the rest of their 2021-22 season, Eastman Opera Theatre will be performing La Calisto in the EOT Scene Shop, 1344 University Avenue (see information below).…
Charles Warren Fox Originally hired in 1932 to teach psychology, Charles Warren Fox (1904-1983) soon was chosen by Director Howard Hanson to become Eastman’s first musicologist. Dr. Fox studied under the eminent musicologist Otto Kinkeldey at Cornell University. His own contributions ranged from writing important papers on the music of the Renaissance to helping found…
Adelin Fermin Adelin Fermin (1867-1941) was a member of the voice faculty during the earliest years of the Eastman School. Before coming to Eastman in 1921, Mr. Fermin — known to many as “Daddy Fermin” — taught at the Hague and at the Sweelwicks School in his native Holland. He had a very successful performing…
Michael Farris Michael Farris (1957-1999) was an Eastman alumnus and associate professor of organ from 1994 until his untimely death. Born in New Mexico, he received his undergraduate degree from Southern Methodist University and then continued his studies at Indiana University where he earned a master of music degree and a Performer’s Certificate. At Eastman,…