Ramon Ricker has served as Senior Associate Dean for Professional Studies, Director of the Institute for Music Leadership, and Professor of Saxophone at Eastman. Dr. Ricker was instrumental in shaping Eastman’s innovative Institute for Music Leadership, whose Arts Leadership curriculum offers courses in entrepreneurship, careers, leadership, performance, contemporary orchestral issues, and musician’s injury prevention and…
Ralph Locke received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard and the master’s and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago. He joined the Eastman faculty in 1975 and taught here until his retirement in 2015. In addition to his Eastman appointment, he was a faculty associate of the University of Rochester’s Susan B. Anthony Institute for…
Patrick Macey earned the Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1985, and joined the Eastman faculty in the same year, teaching until his retirement in 2016. He served as chair of Eastman’s Musicology Department from spring 2007 to 2012, and in 1990 he was honored with the Eastman’s Eisenhart Award for Excellence…
Since Nelita True made her debut at age seventeen with the Chicago Symphony in Orchestra Hall and her New York debut with the Juilliard Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall, her career has taken her to the major cities of Western and Eastern Europe, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, Mexico, Iceland, New Zealand, Brazil, Australia, Canada, India, and…
Lynn Blakeslee was born in Los Angeles, and began violin studies at the age of four. Her teachers and mentors read as a stellar history of violin performance and pedagogy: Sascha Jacobsen (a student of Franz Kneisel), Efrem Zimbalist (Leopold Auer), Ricardo Odnoposoff (Karl Flesch), Franz Samobyl, and Sandor Vegh (Jenö Hubay). She received her…
Two members of the University of Rochester’s Board of Trustees—Cathy Minehan ’68 and Danny Wegman—this week announced gifts totaling $10 million to support faculty and students at the Eastman School of Music. “Since its founding in 1921, Eastman has been an invaluable treasure to the University, the city of Rochester, and the world,” says Richard…
By Sarah Forestieri Eastman Opera Theatre (EOT) presents The Tibetan Book of the Dead, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon, and libretto by Jean-Claude Van Itallie, November 1, 2, 3, and 4 at Kilbourn Hall. This piece is one of Ricky Ian Gordon’s most personal works, coming to fruition after the loss of his partner,…
Media only: Jessica Kaufman, (585) 274-1057, jkaufman@esm.rochester.edu Information: Mimi Hwang, Artistic Director: 585-615-0033; mhwang@esm.rochester.edu “If Music Be the Food…,” the chamber music series benefitting Rochester’s Foodlink, will open its tenth season on Sunday, October 28 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, at the corner of East Avenue and Westminster Road in Rochester.…
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.) CLASSICAL | Sandro Russo (City Newspaper 10/17/2018) Listen to just a few notes from masterful pianist Sandro Russo, and his command of…
The Barbara B. Smith World Music Series brings Aritmia Duo to Rochester, Friday, November 15, at 7:30 p.m., in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. All About Jazz noted that the duo is “A gorgeous pairing… more than sheer virtuosity… the two play with such serene authority that the listener is almost afraid…