The Chiara String Quartet will present the Rochester premiere of Milagros by Gabriela Lena Frank, a composer who often draws on her multicultural heritage, during its Eastman-Ranlet Series concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 3, in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. The ensemble’s program will open with Beethoven’s String Quartet in A…
Over the next few weeks, Eastman School of Music students will be reaching out into the community with classical music, presenting interactive concerts in schools, libraries, churches, nursing homes, hospitals, and other locations. The events are part of the School’s “Music for All” initiative, a chamber music program designed to take classical music out of…
Avant-garde jazz composer and trumpet virtuoso Cuong Vu, widely recognized by jazz critics as a leader of a generation of innovative musicians, will be in residence at the Eastman School of Music and will present free concerts with his trio on Thursday, March 31, and Friday, April 1. Vu’s trio features drummer Ted Poor, who…
Eastman alumnus wins composer Masterprize December 2003 On October 30 in London, Christopher Theofanidis won Masterprize 2003 for his orchestral composition Rainbow Body. Theofanidis, who received a Master of Music degree in piano from Eastman in 1992, now teaches at Peabody Conservatory and the Juilliard School. He accepted the award (equivalent to about $42,000) in…
It Take Five to Tango December 2004 “There are three ways to deal with turning 40,” says pianist Jeffery Watson (MM ’88): “You can have an affair, buy a new car, or join a tango band.” Watson chose the third, and he’s very happy he joined the tango ensemble QuinTango in 2003. What leads a…
Principal-ed Players December 2005 Many Eastman students dream of being first-chair players in a prominent orchestra. This year, the dream came true for quite a few, as several American orchestras — and in one case, an orchestra very far from America — hired recent Eastman graduates for first chair positions. They include: Erich Heckscher (BM…
Home for the Holidays December 2006 “I consider this the best holiday CD project I have ever been involved in,” says Jeff Tyzik (BM ’73, MM ’77), who leads the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in its latest CD, A Holiday Celebration. As the RPO’s Principal Pops Conductor and the veteran of two other holiday-music CDs, Tyzik…
Seven leading German organists and professors from the Hochschule für Künste (University of the Arts) in Bremen will be in residence at the Eastman School of Music and will give public performances, including two concerts on Sunday, March 27. As part of the Eastman at St. Michael’s Series of monthly recitals, Winfried Dahlke, Klaus Eichhorn,…
An Eastman Scholar in Italy November 2007 Professor Patrick Macey, scholar of Medieval and Renaissance music and chair of Eastman’s musicology department, recently traveled to Bologna, Italy, to take part in Il movimento domenicano al femminile: storia, figure, istituzioni – an international conference on women and spirituality in the early middle ages and early modern…
First Prize at Choral Composition November 2008 Composition graduate student Steven Danyew won first prize at the 2008 Ithaca College Choral Composition Competition for his Goodnight, Goodnight. The competition is designed to encourage the creation and performance of new choral music. Winners received cash prizes and six high school choirs performed the top two compositions…