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.) Conducting from the keyboard, Rei Hotoda set to make Utah Symphony debut (Salt Lake Tribune 07/04/2015) Eighty-eight keys aren’t enough for Rei Hotoda. Leading 88 musicians…
Here are some select clippings from the past week 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.) Arrangers Workshop was city’s first jazz showcase (Rochester Democrat & Chronicle © 06/24/2015) Before the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival brought some…
As Europeans explored distant lands and settled new continents from the 1500s to around 1800, their impressions of foreign cultures were reflected in the performing arts, notably those involving music. Depictions of Middle Eastern harem women, Incan priests, fortune-telling Gypsies (Roma), and other inhabitants of exotic locales often reveal a mixture of attraction to the…
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.) Your guide to mapping out a classic classical summer in Utah | The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake Tribune © 06/13/2015) Summer has come to Utah,…
John Hunter and Zach Sheets after the first Tal Perkes Competition in April 2015. This spring, one Eastman alumnus remembered another by supporting a current student. A flute competition, open to all Eastman graduate and undergraduate flute students, was held to honor the memory of Eastman flutist Tallon Perkes (BM ’84). Tal’s friends and family…
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.) WATCH: ‘House of Cards’ Symphony by Netflix Series Composer Jeff Beal with Eastman School’s Empire Film Music Ensemble [VIDEO] (Classicalite © 06/11/2015) Jeff Beal is the…
From renowned drums master and Eastman alumnus Steve Gadd to current Eastman School of Music and Eastman Community Music School students and faculty, many Eastman musicians will be appearing on various stages throughout the 2015 Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (XRIJF). This year the XRIJF will run from Friday, June 19, to Saturday, June 27,…
PLEASE NOTE: Two of the competitors were unable to attend. The release below has been updated to reflect the changes. Twenty-two of the world’s top teen-aged pianists will vie for prizes in the Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition next month. The week-long event of adjudicated performances, master classes, and recitals by award-winning guest artists—all…
