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.) Third Coast contributes to ‘youthquake’ in city’s new-music scene (Chicago Tribune © 02/25/2014) The players met as students at Northwestern University’s Bienen…
Graham Johnson, one of the world’s leading vocal accompanists and song scholars, will be in residence at the Eastman School of Music from Thursday, March 20, through Saturday, March 22. His schedule will include master classes for singers and pianists on art song in various languages as well as a talk on the vocal writing…
One of the most-recorded jazz bassists in history is an Eastman School of Music graduate: Ron Carter (1937 — ), who received a bachelor’s degree in 1959 and an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Rochester. (The photo shows him performing in Eastman’s Kilbourn Hall before the awarding of the doctorate in October…
Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon, one of America’s most frequently performed composers and a major figure in contemporary classical music, headlines this year’s Women in Music Festival at the Eastman School of Music March 24 to 29. As composer-in-residence, she will hold a master class and a forum with students, and her solo and chamber…
