Early MusicAbout Our Program The Eastman Early Music Program provides instruction and performance opportunities on a wide range of instruments and musical styles for both graduate and undergraduate students. Early Music Instruments Instruction is available on the following instruments: Strings: lute, baroque guitar, viola da gamba Keyboards: harpsichord, organ, fortepiano Wind & brass: recorder,…
Jazz Lab BandDIRECTOR | Rich Thompson The Eastman Jazz Lab Band is a full 17-piece jazz ensemble, consisting of both undergraduate and grad. students. The ensemble performs a full range of big band repertoire including Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Thad Jones-Mel Lewis, Bill Holman, and more. The band also performs arrangements by known…
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Media Only: Katey Padden, Public Relations and Social Media Coordinator, (585)451-8492, kpadden@esm.rochester.edu The internationally renowned, award-winning Ying Quartet is back for its first performance of the 2021-22 Eastman-Ranlet season on Sunday, November 14, at 3 p.m., in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. The program will include Haydn’s String Quartet in D Major, Op.…
Organ, Historical Keyboards and Sacred MusicAli SantosCURRENT STUDENT PROFILE Ali Santos is a Master of Music candidate in the studio of David Higgs. They are currently the production assistant for the Memorial Art Gallery’s Third Thursday concert series and continuo accompanist for Baroque chamber ensembles at Eastman. They have also performed as part of the…
Organ, Historical Keyboards and Sacred MusicJacob MontgomeryCURRENT STUDENT PROFILE Jacob Montgomery, a native of Raleigh, NC, is a doctoral candidate in the studio of David Higgs at the Eastman School of Music. He graduated from the studio of David Higgs with his Master of Music in Organ Performance in Literature in 2020 after receiving degrees in…
Organ, Historical Keyboards and Sacred MusicAmanda MoleCURRENT STUDENT PROFILE Amanda Mole is one of the leading concert organists of her generation and the winner of numerous international competitions, including first-prize at the 8th International Musashino-Tokyo Organ Competition (2017), first-place and audience prize at the Miami International Organ Competition (2016), and first-place at the Arthur Poister…
Organ, Historical Keyboards and Sacred MusicDaniel MinnickCURRENT STUDENT PROFILE Daniel Minnick is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Organ Performance and Literature at the Eastman School of Music in the studio of David Higgs, having previously studied with Nathan Laube. A native of north Queensland, Australia, Daniel holds both bachelor’s and master’s…
Organ, Historical Keyboards and Sacred MusicSarah JohnsonCURRENT STUDENT PROFILE Sarah Johnson is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Eastman School of Music, where she studies with David Higgs. A native of Garland, Maine, Sarah began her organ lessons with Kevin Birch, organist and music director at Saint John’s Catholic Church…
Organ, Historical Keyboards and Sacred MusicRyan GreeneCURRENT STUDENT PROFILE Ryan Greene is a fourth year undergraduate at the Eastman School of Music pursuing his Bachelor of Music in organ performance in the studio of David Higgs. A native of South Carolina, Ryan is an inaugural member of the Organ Scholars Program at First Presbyterian Church…
