Congratulations to Xiaoliang Qian, a DMA piano candidate in the studio of Marina Lomazov, for winning the first prize and audience choice award at the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition. In addition to a cash award, Xiaoliang will perform with the orchestra in the 2025-26 season.
Congratulations to Jacob Eichhorn, a PhD candidate in Music Theory, for winning the 2025 Dorothy Payne Award, named for alumna and legendary former Eastman professor Dorothy Payne ’56E, ’67E (MM), ’74E (DMA). This award is given annually to the best student paper delivered at The Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic conference. Jacob’s winning paper…
Congratulations to Isabel Chen for winning the Fenimore Chamber Orchestra’s first-ever nationally advertised Young Persons Concerto Competition. She will be featured in the Orchestra’s fourth concert of their 2024-2025 season on Saturday, March 15 at 3:00 PM at Christ Church Episcopal in Cooperstown, NY. Isabel is completing her final year towards receiving a Bachelor’s degree in Violin…
Congratulations to Yunxin (Dorothy) Nie for winning the Neva Stevens Pilgrim Award at the Civic Morning Musicals 48th Annual Competition for Singers, taking home a $500 prize. The competition was held on February 8 in Syracuse, NY. Dorothy is a second-year, undergraduate soprano from the studio of Professor Kathryn Cowdrick.
Congratulations to Evan Martschenko, a first-year PhD Theory student, for publishing an article in Music Theory Online, one of the discipline’s top peer-reviewed journals. Evan’s article, “‘Feel the Emptiness’: Micro-Schemata in the Music of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki,” demonstrates that a few key threads define Górecki’s compositional language even as his style ranged from Polish sonorism…
Eastman’s songSLAM took place Saturday, February 1, with a standing-room only crowd in Sproull Atrium! Hosted by Associate Professor of Vocal Coaching Alison d’Amato and co-founder of Sparks and Wiry Cries Martha Guth, the celebration of new song works premiered fourteen composer-performer teams with a wide range of styles, texts, and duo collaborations. Winners were…
Congratulations to Paul David Flood, PhD Musicology candidate, for being the 2024 winner of the Presser Graduate Music Award, a substantial grant from the Presser Foundation to support a professional-development project by a graduate student. During the summer of 2024, he traveled to Malmö, Sweden to pursue innovative ethnographic research into the cultural significance of…
On Tuesday, January 14, 2025, the Monroe County Legislature presented baritone Holden Turner ’25E with a proclamation recognizing his achievements in music as the 2024-25 William Warfield Scholarship Fund recipient. Congratulations, Holden! “The legacy of William Warfield is deeply inspiring to me as a young artist,” says Turner. “It’s a privilege to honor his…
Congratulations to senior horn performance major Morgan Chalmers for winning a position with the horn section of The United States Army Field Band, the touring ensemble of the Army music program. She will begin her appointment after she graduates in May 2025. Morgan is from the studio of Peter Kurau.