Jamal Rossi, Joan and Martin Messinger Dean of the Eastman School of Music Eastman School Background Jamal J. Rossi has been named the Joan and Martin Messinger Dean of the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, pending board approval, University President Joel Seligman announced today. Rossi, 55, came to Eastman in 2005 as senior…
Large-scale, rediscovered works by two composers with ties to Eastman were performed in Carnegie Hall’s recent (and unfortunately its last) “Spring for Music” Festival, dedicated to innovative concerts by North American orchestras. Last Tuesday night, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Eastman Rochester Chorus, Bach Children’s Chorus of Nazareth College, and many soloists – about 250 performers…
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.) May Festival rewards listeners with rousing opener (Cincinnati Enquirer © 05/08/2014) Somehow, Wednesday evening didn’t quite feel like a May Festival opening…
Samuel Hope, a longtime unceasing advocate for arts education who recently retired as executive director of the National Association of Schools of Music, will return to his alma mater as the commencement speaker for the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music graduation on Sunday, May 18. In addition, Associate Professor of Music Theory William…
RocMusic, a community-based program that provides after-school tuition-free music and string instruction to children in the City of Rochester, will hold its first annual benefit event on Friday, May 16. Funds raised will be used to purchase instruments for current and future students. The benefit event, which will be held at the David F. Gantt…
The vengeful Puritans of Howard Hanson’s opera Merry Mount — as embodied by the Eastman-Rochester Chorus — take the stage of Carnegie Hall tonight, along with soloists,the Nazareth Bach Children’s Chorus, and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, all led by Michael Christie. (They shown here in last month’s performance in Kodak Hall.) Merry Mount is…
Saxophonist Phil Pierick, a doctoral student at the Eastman School of Music, has received a Fulbright Study/Research Grant and will spend the 2014-2015 academic year in Austria. There, he will be studying contemporary music performance practice with Lars Mlekusch at the Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität in Vienna. A staunch advocate for new music, Pierick has commissioned…
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.) Opera & Classical Music Listings for May 2-8 (New York Times © 05/01/2014) The Mexican tenor Javier Camarena, stepping in for Juan…
DownBeat, often described as “the bible of jazz,” has recognized the Eastman School of Music’s Eastman Chamber Jazz Ensemble under director Jeff Campbell for outstanding undergraduate college performance in the magazine’s 37th annual Student Awards competition. The publication also chose a work by Eastman musician Michael Conrad as the best original composition for a large…
Elizabeth Bucura has been appointed Assistant Professor of Music Education at the Eastman School of Music beginning in the 2014-2015 academic year. Bucura is currently a lecturer at Arizona State University, where she recently earned her doctoral degree. She has also been an online course facilitator for Boston University. Her research has investigated music educators…