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.) Eastman Faculty And Alumni Win Grammys (WXXI 02/16/2016) Eastman School of Music alumni Maria Schneider and Bob Ludwig were among the winners in Monday night’s Grammy…
By John Fatuzzo Last Friday, February 12, Eastman vocalists performed in the annual Friends of Eastman Opera Voice Competition in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School. The Vocal Competition is supported by the organization Friends of Eastman Opera and showcases many of Eastman’s most talented and hard-working students, as selected by faculty. This is the…
Adjudicator Kim Witman of the Wolf Trap Opera Company, with the prizewinners of the 2016 Friends of Eastman Opera Voice Competition. From left to right: Keely Futterer, Emily Helenbrook, Alan Cline, and Emily Siar. By John Fatuzzo Last Friday, February 12, Eastman vocalists performed in the annual Friends of Eastman Opera (FEO) Voice Competition in…
Alexander Borodin by Garrett Wellenstein The Eastman School Symphony Orchestra (ESSO) will present its second concert of the semester tomorrow, Saturday, February 20, 2016, in Kodak Hall. Maestro Neil Varon opens the concert with a bang, conducting Alexander Borodin’s Overture to Prince Igor, followed by the lush, mystical harmonies of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on…
JoAnn Falletta, Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, who has been hailed as “…one of the finest conductors of her generation” by the New York Times, will be visiting the Eastman School of Music to present a lecture as part of the Glenn E. Watkins Series on February 29 from 3 to 4 p.m..…
The manuscript title page of Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony. showing the composer’s violent correction of the dedication to Napoleon. Eastman students have been providing program notes for this semester’s concerts by Eastman orchestras: the Philharmonia, Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, and Graduate Chamber Orchestra. Here are the notes from the Friday, February 19 Philharmonia concert, featuring works…
by Peter Folliard Eastman Philharmonia presents its second free concert of the semester this Friday night at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall. The program opens with Beethoven’s tragic Coriolan Overture conducted by second year DMA student Peter J. Folliard, and concludes with Beethoven’s heroic Third Symphony. Contrasting quite perfectly, Maestro Varon programmed Mahler’s Rückert Lieder…
(Left to Right) Adjudicator, Kim Pensinger Witman, Sr. Director, Wolf Trap Opera, Keely Futterer, Soprano, 1st place Emily Helenbrook, Soprano, 2nd place, Alan Cline, Baritone, 3rd place, Emily Siar, Soprano, Honorable mention The Eastman School of Music is proud to announce the winners of the 2016 Friends of Eastman Opera Voice Competition, which took place…
Contemporary music theory in Paris: the 2014 “Study Abroad in Paris” group with director Robert Hasegawa (back row, in striped shirt). by Andrea Schuler, Summer@Eastman Program Coordinator Paris vacations never really need justification, but if you’re seeking intellectual and musical validation for your next June trip, Summer@Eastman can help. Professor Robert Hasegawa, who taught music…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 16, 2016 Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the Eastman School of Music Ralph P. Locke was recently awarded an honorable mention by the PROSE Awards, from the Association of American Publishers—in the category of Music & the Performing Arts—for his book, Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart Locke’s…