This feature article originally appeared in the Summer 2022 issue of Eastman Notes. Eastman invited the Rochester community to its celebration of the 100th anniversary of the official opening of its doors to the public on March 3, 1922. This date marked the beginning of a long relationship between Rochesterians and the burgeoning new music…
This weekend, Eastman students, faculty members, and alumni will join together to pay tribute to Jane Günter-McCoy ‘59E, who taught voice from 1987 to 2010 in Eastman’s Community Music School, and who died in October 2021. (Her husband Seth McCoy was also a longtime Eastman voice faculty member, from 1982 until his death in 1997.)…
The response of educational institutions to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic has led to a greatly increased demand for online classes. This need coincides with Eastman Community Music School’s launch of an ambitious AP® Music Theory online course, the result of collaboration between ECMS and Eastman’s Institute for Music Leadership, with grant funding from the University…
Top: Andre Weinberger, ESM ‘23, who attended Summer Jazz Studies in 2018. Photo credit: Joy Yagid. Bottom: Robert Varon, ESM ‘23, a Summer Jazz Studies alumnus from 2017. Photo credit: Arian David Photography. By Eli Campbell, Media & Events Coordinator, Eastman Community Music School Eastman Experience: Summer Jazz Studies: “This rigorous two-week program provides…
ECMS instructor Kyle Peters with a student in the school’s Messinger Hall (“Messinger One”). By Kyle Peters School is almost out for the summer! It’s time to get ready for the beach, sleeping in, campfires and… summer music lessons? That’s right, summer music lessons! Taking lessons during the summer will prepare you to be…
Striking Strings Hammered Dulcimer Ensemble of the Eastman Community Music School, under the direction of Mitzie Collins and Linda Sniedze Taggart, will be featured at the upcoming Old Songs Festival in Altamont, New York, near Albany. The festival, celebrating its 36th year, is one of the largest and most prestigious gatherings of traditional folk musicians …
Eastman Community Music School’s String, Harp, and Guitar Department invites you to join them in celebrating 2014 World Violin Day—a chance for future violinists of the world to learn about and try the most prominent instrument in the orchestra. World Violin Day will take place on Saturday, December 13, and will feature a beginning strings…
Future violinists have a chance to learn about and try the most prominent instrument in the orchestra when the Eastman Community Music School celebrates Violin Day on Saturday, Dec. 13. Adults and children can enjoy recitals, watch classes, and try their hand at making music during a string instrument petting zoo. All the activities are…
Baritone Derrick Smith, whose career included opera roles such as Porgy, Crown, and Jake in Porgy and Bess as well as acclaimed solo performances, died Tuesday, Nov. 18, following a heart attack. He was 56. Mr. Smith received his master’s degree at the Eastman School of Music in 1988 and had been on the faculty…
Eastman was deeply saddened to hear of the death of Derrick Smith, a distinguished baritone soloist and a longtime faculty member of the Eastman Community Music School. Mr. Smith died on November 18 after a heart attack. A 1988 master’s degree recipient from the Eastman School of Music, Derrick Smith was known to Rochester audiences…