Eastman News Highlights March 30, 2015
(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.) Alarm Will Sound forging connections across stylistic, geographic boundaries with concert at CSU (Cleveland Plain Dealer 03/24/2015) Alarm Will Sound doesn’t just talk the talk. No,…
Apartment Search Advice for New Grad Students
The following post was also written by guest poster Amy Skjerseth, who is a recent alumna and has done her share of apartment searching. Thanks for sharing, Amy! ************ So you’ll be attending Eastman for graduate school in the fall—congratulations!—and you are wondering about finding an apartment in Rochester. As a recent undergraduate alumna of…
Viola Commissions Born At Eastman
Photograph taken at the 2012 International Viola Congress, held at the Eastman School of Music. Tonight at 8 p.m. in Howard Hanson Hall, there is a unique opportunity to attend a concert put on by two of Eastman’s best studios. Carol Rodland’s viola studio has collaborated with the ESM Composition Department and Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez on…
Former Eastman School of Music Director Robert Freeman Honored for his Contributions
The Eastman School of Music will honor former director Robert Freeman for his long-time service to the school and to the Rochester community by naming the atrium of its Sibley Music Library in his honor. During the dedication ceremony, which will be held Tuesday, April 7, at 3 p.m. in the library, Freeman also will…
Prokofiev at War, by Barry Snyder
Portrait of Sergei Prokofiev, 1934 This weekend, Eastman professor Barry Snyder will be giving a once-in-a-lifetime performance of three incredibly powerful sonatas by Sergei Prokofiev. These sonatas contain some of Prokofiev’s most dissonant music for the piano. The composer’s biographer Daniel Jaffe has argued that Prokofiev, “having forced himself to compose a cheerful evocation of…
Eastman Takes Trumpet Competition by Storm
Eastman trumpeters Andrew Psarris, Michael Kent, Steve Felix, Dovas Lietuvninkas, Samuel Huss Last weekend, March 19 through 21, I had the sincere honor of competing in the National Trumpet Competition with my fellow trumpet players. Every year we go down to this competition and we do well — but most important, we have a lot…
Eastman School of Music Hosts International Lotte Lenya Competition
Fourteen exceptionally talented young singer-actors from the United States and Europe will compete for the top prize in the finals of the 2015 Lotte Lenya competition, which will be held at the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall on Saturday, April 18. Both the daytime finals and the evening concert are free and open to…