Eastman New Jazz EnsembleDIRECTOR | Dave Rivello, Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media The Eastman New Jazz Ensemble was established to showcase the finest contemporary music from around the world written for jazz ensemble. Performing repertoire primarily from the last 20 years, the New Jazz Ensemble plays music not often heard or yet…
Eastman Jazz EnsembleDIRECTOR | Christine Jensen, Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media The Eastman Jazz Ensemble has been recognized as one of the world’s premier collegiate jazz performing organizations for three decades. Years before Eastman alumnus Chuck Mangione became the ensemble’s first faculty director, the band was established and governed by Eastman student…
Eastman Treble ChorusDIRECTOR | Philip Silvey, Associate Professor of Music Teaching & Learning Together, those who enroll in the Eastman School of Music / University of Rochester Treble Chorus create a vocal ensemble of students from across the university who sing a wide variety of music in class and in concert throughout the semester. Members closely study…
Eastman-Rochester ChorusDIRECTOR | William Weinert, Professor of Conducting & Ensembles Now in its fortieth season, the Eastman-Rochester Chorus is a select symphonic chorus consisting of singers from the greater Rochester community and students from the Eastman School of Music. The chorus presents works for chorus and orchestra in collaboration with the orchestras of the Eastman…
Eastman Repertory Singers The Eastman Repertory Singers is a mixed 60-voice chorus of Eastman students presenting frequent performances under the direction of graduate students in conducting, in styles ranging from Renaissance madrigals and motets to premieres of contemporary choral works. Recent concerts have included the Haydn Lord Nelson Mass, the Duruflé Requiem, and works of…
Eastman ChoraleDIRECTOR | William Weinert, Professor of Conducting & Ensembles The Eastman Chorale is a select ensemble of singers from the Eastman School of Music performing the finest choral repertoire from the past five centuries. The Chorale consists primarily of graduate and undergraduate students in vocal performance, conducting and music education. They have performed by…
Eastman Wind OrchestraCONDUCTOR | Dr. Mark Davis Scatterday, Professor of Conducting & Ensembles The Eastman Wind Orchestra (EWO) is comprised of first and second year woodwind, brass, and percussion students at the Eastman School of Music- and is the first component of the large ensemble rotation system. The repertoire and curriculum for EWO is similar…
The Eastman Wind EnsembleCONDUCTOR | Dr. Mark Davis Scatterday, Professor of Conducting & Ensembles The Eastman Wind Ensemble (EWE) is America’s first and leading wind ensemble. Its core of about 50 performers includes undergraduate and graduate students from The Eastman School of Music at The University of Rochester. Frederick Fennell first formulated the general concept…
eastman.school Last week Eastman gathered in Howard Hanson Hall t DEAN APPOINTMENT | Alumnus Kate Sheeran ’02E, an FACULTY APPOINTMENT: CELLO | Eastman School of Mus Eastman will join the worldwide observance of Yom FACULTY APPOINTMENT: COMPOSITION | Eastman School Rochester’s annual Day of Giving returns on Wedn Believe it or not, there are just…
Eastman School Symphony OrchestraCONDUCTOR | Neil Varon, Professor of Conducting & Ensembles The Eastman School of Music has three orchestras, regularly performing repertoire representative of all musical style periods. Two performing venues at Eastman allow students and faculty to present concerts in an acoustically fine and artistically well-conceived concert space: the newly-renovated Kodak Hall at…