This July and August, the familiar summer sounds of Eastman – which this year have included flute and trombone workshops and a number of chamber and solo recitals – have also included opera, as participants in the Finger Lakes Opera have performed in concerts and recitals to celebrate the organization’s tenth anniversary. The company’s Young…
For the final week of Summer@Eastman 2022, the school is bright with the sounds of flutes – eighteen to be exact — as we host the return of The Artistic Flutist: the Bonita Boyd International Flute Masterclass. Held for the first time in 2016, this event, a major one for young and aspiring flutists, is…
Nicholas Goluses will give a faculty recital on August 3, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. in Hatch Hall. He is Professor of Guitar, founder and director of the guitar programs at Eastman, where he is the recipient of the Eisenhart Award for Excellence in Teaching. His concert tours as soloist, with orchestra, and as chamber musician…
Yoshiko Arahata Dr. Yoshiko Arahata ’11E, ’18E (DMA) is a concert pianist, collaborative pianist, chamber musician, educator, and composer currently based in Rochester, NY. To kick off the one week in-person portion of her Summer@Eastman program, “The Pianist’s Guide to Dance Accompaniment,” Dr. Arahata will be giving a faculty recital on Monday, July 19 at…
“To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist,” wrote the 19th-century composer Robert Schumann. To shed a bit of light during one of the darkest events of the 21st century, an Eastman professor will be presenting a recital this month to benefit displaced Ukrainian music students.…
Robert Freeman, shown during a return engagement in 2006, whose “absolutely tireless” leadership and initiatives still resonate at our school. Eastman’s School Historian, Vincent Lenti, recently published the third volume of his history of our school. In this excerpt from Nurturing the Love of Music: Robert Freeman and the Eastman School of Music (Meliora…
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.)…
Jonathan Sauceda just completed his first academic year as Associate Dean and Head of the Sibley Music Library. It has been a very full year. As head of the library, he oversees all aspects of the library’s programs and services, including collection development, personnel management, budget management, technical services, client services, and library technology development.…
The original version of this article appeared in the printed edition of the Winter 2022 Eastman Notes magazine. Since it appeared, we’ve been able to update a number of commissioned titles and other facts, which are reflected in this online version. It officially began last fall, and it is still going strong. Eastman’s centennial celebration…
Tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Kodak Hall, the Eastman Jazz Ensemble presents its final concert of the 2022 spring semester – which will also be the final concert for Bill Dobbins as its director. The occasion includes the first performance of Dobbins’ latest work (and an Eastman Centennial commission), Legacy. We asked Bill about this…