Last month’s blog post about the opening Eastman Philharmonia concert on January 29 was inadvertently deleted. We re-post it here and are sorry for any inconvenience the deletion may have caused. by Peter Folliard Soloist Wei-Han Wu rehearses Ravel’s Concerto in G with conductor Neil Varon and the Philharmonia The Eastman concert season kicks off…
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.) Vivek Jayaraman Named Concertmaster of the Canton Symphony Orchestra (Broadway World 2/2/2016) Jayaraman received a Master’s degree in Orchestral Performance from Manhattan…
Eastman School of Music’s 10th anniversary celebration of its Italian Baroque Organ continues with a Third Thursday concert titled “Adventurous Italians” on Thursday, February 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Memorial Art Gallery. In this concert, Publick Musick returns to the Memorial Art Gallery for a performance with one of Rochester’s hidden treasures: Eastman’s magnificent Italian Baroque Organ, the only…
NEA Jazz Master Bill Holman will visit the Eastman School of Music to offer workshops and performances with students from February 9-11. Holman is renowned as a composer, arranger, and saxophonist, and received one of the highest honors in music in 2010 from the National Endowment for the Arts as a Jazz Master. Additionally, he…
Photographs from the inaugural Ritsos project in Athens, July 2015. During a visit to her grandmother’s homeland in 2013, composer Aristea Mellos learned that the residents of the Greek island of Samos had few opportunities to hear live classical music. She set out to change that when she got back to Eastman. With the help…
Tonight at 8 p.m., the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra — comprised of first-year and sophomore musicians — gives it first concert of 2016. Neil Varon conducts, and the guest artist is Professor of Voice Jan Opalach — not singing, but reading Ogden Nash’s verses for Saint-Saens’s Carnival of the Animals. Popular works by Wagner and…
The Eastman Wind Orchestra performs Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Stucky’s Threnos this Wednesday in Kodak Hall. By Eric Laprade The Eastman Wind Orchestra, under the direction of Professor Mark Davis Scatterday, will present its first concert of the spring semester on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The program…
By Kevin Holzman On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, The Eastman Wind Ensemble, conducted by Kevin Holzman, presents A Celebration of the Symphony. Far from an outdated genre, the symphony continues to thrill and inspire musicians and audiences across the world. The power of this genre is…
Bassoonist Peter Kolkay (MM ’00) returns to Eastman for this summer’s NewBassoon Workshop by Andrea Schuler, Summer@Eastman Program Coordinator No matter how many chamber music concerts you’ve attended, you’ve probably never heard anything quite like Dark in the Song. This “contemporary bassoon collective” of five top-notch American bassoonists has essentially created its own repertoire since…
