October 8 – 11, 2015, marked the first year of Meliora@Eastman: the combining of two alumni traditions, the University of Rochester’s Meliora Weekend and Eastman Weekend. The long weekend was filled with interesting events on the Eastman campus. Our blogger Andrew Psarris was our “roving reporter” for Meliora@Eastman and will file several posts on different…
For Eastman students studying Music Education, the student teaching semester is more trying than any other. A new schedule, daily travel, hours of lesson planning and many more practicing piano, conducting, and secondary instruments, are only some of the typical challenges student teachers face every day. But most agree that it is also the most…
The members of Midic: Quinn Delaney, Rebecca Tobin, June Kim, Johanna Gruskin, Russell Rybicki The Eastman Wind Ensemble is gearing up for an exciting second concert of the year, this Friday, October 16, at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. As part of an effort by conductor Mark Davis Scatterday to bring young…
The renowned composer Dr. Eric Ewazen (BM ’76) was celebrated as an honored alumnus during Meliora Weekend at Eastman. Ewazen’s visit included a master class of his music performed by Eastman students on Friday, October 9, and receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award during Saturday afternoon’s Brass Cavalcade (October 10). As a brass player and performer…
Kelly Hall-Tompkins, ESM BM ’93 and founder of Music Kitchen: Food for the Soul. The Eastman School of Music boasts prominent alumni in virtually every field of music: performers, teachers, composers, theorists, conductors, and so on. What better time of the year to celebrate the career paths of our distinguished alumni than the days leading…
The seismic shifts in America’s cultural and political landscapes are reflected in words and music in Hydrogen Jukebox, a music theatre piece that will be presented by Eastman Opera Theatre November 5 through 8 in the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall. Setting the counterculture poems of Allen Ginsberg to the repetitive structures of Philip…
We often hear about great performances given by Eastman students, but we hardly ever hear about the “academic side” of music. My good friend and colleague Braden Maxwell has had experiences in both. As an accomplished undergraduate piano player, brain and cognitive scientist, and music theorist, Braden has worked to transcend the boundaries of music…
The next Eastman Faculty Artist Series performance is tomorrow evening, October 8, at 8 p.m. in Hatch Hall, and will feature Natalya Antonova, Professor of Piano. Antonova will be giving a solo recital of music by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) in celebration of the 205th anniversary of the composer’s birth year. The program includes Chopin’s Rondo…
On Sunday, September 27, the Principal Brass, a quintet of principal brass players from the New York Philharmonic. performed at Eastman in the school’s Kilbourn Concert Series. A nearly sold-out Kilbourn Hall audience was treated to an impressive performance of famous French and American brass quintets and several virtuosic transcriptions. As an added bonus, Eastman…
Violist Alex McLaughlin and conductor Peter Folliard rehearse Nicolas Bacri’s Piccolo Concerto Notturno with the Eastman Viola Ensemble in Kodak Hall. (Photograph by Carol Rodland.) It’s rare to see the Eastman Student Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia share the stage in Kodak Hall, but Maestro Neil Varon wanted to feature both orchestras during this special “homecoming”…