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.) Schubert’s beloved song cycle to be performed at Colby Barn (Chicago Tribune 02/07/2018) Thomas Meglioranza first heard Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, a cycle…
By Katja Pennypacker Soprano Katja Pennypacker attended the Eastman Community Music School’s Music Horizons summer program in 2015. She is now a freshman vocal performance major at Eastman, studying with Kathryn Cowdrick. Participating in the Music Horizons voice program was a life-changing experience for me and the reason why Eastman was my first-choice school for…
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.) Igor Lipinski to Bring Magic to the Keyboard for College of Charleston Piano Series (Moultrie News 02/04/2018) He earned his Bachelor of Music in Piano…
Dynamic, creepy, and committed: the cast of Eastman Opera Theatre’s Les Enfants Terribles By Kameron Ghanavati Photographs by Nic Minetor Les Enfants Terribles officially opens this weekend at Eastman to a sold-out audience. And rightfully so, given the intricate staging juxtaposed with transcendent music and intimate performances by the cast. I was able to attend…
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.) Lesson of a lifetime (Delano.lu 01/29/2018) When prolific American composer and musician Richard Lane passed away in 2004, his protégé, Demosthenes Dimitrakoulakos,…
Bernard Herrmann, shown in Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much This Monday, January 29, Eastman offers the opportunity to go to a concert and to the movies, when the Empire Film Music Ensemble, collaborating with the Eastman School of Music’s Beal Institute of Film Music and Contemporary Media, presents an evening of music by…
The Faculty Artist Series presents Eastman Virtuosi, a trio of Eastman School of Music faculty members, Friday, March 2, at 8 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. Made up of Masumi Per Rostad, viola (Associate Professor), Alexander Kobrin, piano (Assistant Professor), and Alan Harris, cello (Distinguished Professor), the trio is performing…
The Faculty Artist Series presents: bass-baritone Jan Opalach, Associate Professor of Voice together with the Lilac String Quartet, including Haley Schricker and Julia Churchill, violins; Ethan Durrell, viola; Jordan Gunn, Violoncello; and Edward Rothmel, piano at the Eastman School of Music, Sunday, March 4, at 3 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall. The program is set to…
The Fernando Laires Piano Series presents George Li on Monday, March 5 at 8 p.m., in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. The program includes Beethoven’s Sonata No. 6 in F Major, Op. 10, No. 2, Chopin’s Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35, Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op.…
The Eastman School of Music is proud to celebrate the 95th birthday year of composer and pianist George Theophilus Walker in a special alumnus recital on Monday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m., in Hatch Recital Hall at Eastman, followed by a champagne toast and reception in Wolk Atrium for the audience. The recital, comprised of…