Eastman Harmonie (photo credit: Kaila Delany) By John Fatuzzo From May 25 to June 5, Eastman Wind Ensemble Harmonie will be touring Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic, with planned performances in in Salzburg, Vienna, Prague, Pilsen, Bayreuth, and Wurzburg. A subset of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Harmonie is a wind octet: 2 oboes, 2…
By Tahlia Cott On Thursday February 25, join us for a special opportunity to engage in an informal exchange with Bela Fleck about his career, and watch as he collaborates with two Eastman student music groups in an informal rehearsal setting. (And there just might be a few minutes of him performing!) Mr. Fleck will…
By Kevin Holzman The Eastman Wind orchestra presents “A Salute to Donald Hunsberger”, conducted by Mark Davis Scatterday, Eric LaPrade, and Kevin Holzman, this Wednesday, November 11, at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall. Admission is free. Few people have impacted the history and development of an ensemble and its repertoire more than Donald Hunsberger. The…
By Eric Laprade The Eastman Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Professor Mark Davis Scatterday, presents their third concert of the 2015-2016 season on Wednesday, November 4 at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The concert will feature a pair of prominent works by composers Olivier Messiaen and John Mackey. Messiaen’s Et exspecto…
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…
Composer Steven Stucky with Mark Davis Scatterday and the Eastman Wind Ensemble, December 2011 Tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall, I have the pleasure of playing again with the country’s favorite wind ensemble. The program will be opened by Eastman’s Harmonie—a chamber ensemble of wind players — who will be playing the Serenade…
Come out this Wednesday, January 28, at 8 p.m. for the Eastman Wind Ensemble’s first concert of the new semester. The program features Michael Daugherty’s Raise the Roof, a powerful timpani concerto that crosses many styles and idioms. It is replete with standing trombone players, lead trumpet solos, and unrelenting timpani, played by Eastman student…
On Friday, October 17 and on Sunday, October 19, during Eastman Weekend 2014, the community, students, faculty, and visiting alumni were invited to two auspicious occasions celebrating our late, great Eastman Wind Ensemble director and founder, Frederick Fennell. The Friday afternoon session started with EWE director Mark Scatterday speaking about Fennell’s influence on him…
Conductor of the world’s great orchestras, composer for the concert hall, opera house, movies, Broadway, and the West End, classical and jazz pianist, writer, and television personality, André Previn is one of the most celebrated, distinctive, and varied contemporary musicians in the world. Tonight, the Eastman Wind Ensemble will be celebrating Andre Previn and his…
Today is the 132nd birthday of one of the greatest 20th-century composers, Igor Stravinsky. Besides being one of the greatest composers, he was one of the most-traveled, living in pre-Soviet Russia, in Paris, and in the United States and traveling just about everywhere else in the world as a guest composer, pianist, and conductor. In…