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Pianist, Professor Douglas Humpherys Appointed Artistic Director of Bachauer International Piano Foundation

News RoomBy Jessica Kaufman February 21, 2013

Douglas Humpherys, department chair and professor of piano at the Eastman School of Music, has been named artistic director of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation. The foundation hosts festivals, concert series, and outreach educational programs to further pianistic art, and sponsors a major international piano competition. Humpherys, whose concert career has spanned more than…

Friends of Eastman Opera Announce Winners of Annual Voice Competition

News RoomBy Jessica Kaufman February 20, 2013

Mezzo-soprano Melissa Fajardo won the Friends of Eastman Opera’s 12th annual competition for Eastman School of Music voice and opera students, held February 15 in the School’s Kilbourn Hall. She received the Lynne Clarke Vocal Prize in the amount of $1,500, donated by John Clarke in honor of his late wife, a founding member of…

Eastman Wind Ensemble and Eastman Virtuosi Release All-Stravinsky Album with the Octet and ‘The Soldier’s Tale’

News RoomBy Jessica Kaufman February 12, 2013

Harking back to a golden era in recording – when the ensembles of the Eastman School of Music made dozens of pioneering LPs for the Mercury Living Presence label – the Eastman Wind Ensemble and Eastman Virtuosi team to release an all-Stravinsky album on Avie Records on February 12. The Eastman Wind Ensemble, traditionally a…

Eastman Alumni Renée Fleming, Bob Ludwig Awarded Grammys

News RoomBy Jessica Kaufman February 11, 2013

Eastman School of Music alumni Renée Fleming (MM ’83) and Robert (Bob) Ludwig (BM ’66 MM ’01) each won a Grammy during the 55th annual awards show Sunday, Feb. 10. Fleming was awarded her fourth Grammy for Best Classical Vocal Solo award for Poèmes, her album of four French orchestral song cycles. Ludwig, who is…

Welcome Center

By Noah Lapidus February 7, 2013

The Eastman School of Music Welcome Center is located in the center of Lowry Hall in the main building of ESM. The Welcome Center provides many different services for Faculty, Staff and Students. For more information about specific services, contact welcomecenter@esm.rochester.edu MAINLINE (585) 274-1000 The Welcome Center answers the main phone line for the Eastman School…

TBD, Accounting and Human Resources Coordinator

By Noah Lapidus February 7, 2013

Messinger Hall 250 Office Phone: 585.274.1039 Fax: 585.274.1087 In this role in Financial and Human Resource Services, candidate will take on the responsibility of providing professional support to the Finance and Human Resource functions at Eastman utilizing her knowledge of the University accounting/bookkeeping procedures to provide proper review and control over activities which impact the…

Eastman School of Music Hosts Composer David Crumb

News RoomBy Jessica Kaufman February 7, 2013

Highly recognized composer and Eastman School of Music alumnus David Crumb will be a guest composer at the School to hear his works performed by Eastman musicians and to meet with composition students. A recital of his compositions on Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 8 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall features Red Desert Triptych, performed by…

Alarm Will Sound Brings ‘1969’ to Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre

News RoomBy Jessica Kaufman February 5, 2013

Rumors of a meeting between the Beatles and Karlheinz Stockhausen – icons of 1960s rock and avant-garde composition, respectively – are untrue, even though Stockhausen appears on the cover of the group’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album and the composer’s Hymnen echoes in John Lennon’s Revolution 9. But the idea of the-meeting-that-never-was is…

Kennedy Center Concert Showcases Eastman School of Music Students

News RoomBy Jessica Kaufman February 5, 2013

Thirteen students have been chosen to represent the Eastman School of Music in the prestigious Conservatory Project at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Feb. 12. The Conservatory Project is designed to present the best young musical artists in classical, jazz, musical theater, opera and more from…

Finding the Right Fit – My Graduate School Search

Apply, General, GraduateBy Christina Crispin February 5, 2013

What are you looking for in a graduate school? Knowing what you want and what you’d like to see, both in a graduate program and in the school at large, is an important part of your audition and interview process. Perhaps you want a school that will challenge and motivate you to be better at your instrument. Or,…

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