Spring 2008 events calendar (updated weekly)
See Also: Eastman School of Music Coming Events : Composition Past Events
Thursday, April 10, 8:00 pm, Kilbourn Hall - Eastman Percussion Ensemble
Featuring the world premiere of a work by ESM student Jairo Duarte-Lopez
Monday, April 7, 8:00 pm, Kilbourn Hall - First Annual Benson Forum on Creativity
Featuring new works for piano duo inspired by the works of sculptor Arthur Ganson as part of the first annual Warren and Patricia Benson Forum on Creativity. Featured composers are ESM Associate Professor Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez and current students Andrew Allen, Jennifer Bellor, Andrew Colella, Paul Coleman, Henry Henderson, Chad Latta, Feng-Hsu Lee, John Liberatore, Hiroyuki Sakurai and Symeon Waseen.
Also featuring a panel discussion with Ganson and faculty from both ESM and the University of Rochester.
Click here for the official ESM press release.
Monday, April 7, 7:30 pm, The Bop Shop* - Scott Worthington, double bass
Featuring new works for bass and electronics by Worthington, as well as ESM composers Andrew Allen, Scott Petersen and Steven Rice
Also featuring ESM student Matthew Barber's Interface Chapel
*Located at 274 N Goodman Street in Rochester.
Thursday, April 3, 6:30 pm, Ciminelli Lounge - New Chamber Music
Featuring chamber works by ESM students Andrew Colella, John Liberatore and Eugene Astapov
Wednesday, April 2, 8:30 pm, Ciminelli Lounge - Joung Bum Lee, composer
Featuring works by ESM student Joung Bum Lee
Saturday, March 29, 8:00 pm, Kilbourn Hall - Eastman Virtuosi
Sunday, March 30, 3:00 pm, Kilbourn Hall - Faculty Artist Series
Featuring the world premiere of ESM professor David Liptak's Sonata for Cello and Piano by ESM faculty members Steve Doane, cello and Barry Snyder, piano
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Friday, March 28, 4:00 pm, Station 55* - ArtAwake 2008
Featuring sound installation by ESM composer Scott Petersen
Also featuring a performance (6:00 pm) by Petersen and current ESM student Paul Coleman
*Located at 55 Railroad Street in Rochester.
Thursday, March 27, 7:00 pm, Interfaith Chapel* - ECMC Spring Concert II
Featuring works by guest composer Joel Chadabe
Also featuring works by ESM graduate Mikel Kuehn and current ESM students Matthew Barber and Andrew McManus
*Located at the University of Rochester's River Campus on Wilson Boulevard.
Friday, March 7, 8:00 pm, Bethel Christian Fellowship* - ECMC Spring Concert I
Featuring works by guest composers Reginald Bain and Luis Pena
Also featuring works by ESM students Andrew Allen, Hendel Almétus, Andrew Collela, John Liberatore and Steven Rice
*Bethel Christian Fellowship is located at 321 East Avenue in Rochester.
Wednesday, March 5, 8:00 pm, Kilbourn Hall - Faculty Artist Series
John Graham, viola
Featuring works by Ernest Bloch, Morton Feldman and Peter Sculthorpe
Also featuring ESM undergraduate Andrew Collela's Sketches for Viola
Monday, March 3, 8:00 pm, Ciminelli Lounge - Guest Artist Recital
Tony Arnold, soprano and Movses Pogossian, violin
Featuring a complete performance of Györgi Kurtág's Kafka Fragments
Monday, March 3, 3:00 pm, Ciminelli Lounge - Guest Master Class
Tony Arnold, soprano
Featuring vocal works by current ESM students
Wednesday, February 20, 8:00 pm, Eastman Theatre - Eastman Wind Ensemble
Featuring works by John McCabe, Christopher Rouse and Bernard Hoffer
Also featuring the world premiere of ESM PhD candidate Baljinder Sekhon's Scope
Tuesday, February 19, 8:00 pm, Kilbourn Hall - OSSIA New Music
Featuring works by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Franco Donatoni, Toru Takemitsu and ESM composers Matthew Barber and Paul Coleman
Also featuring works by the winners of the 2007 OSSIA Brass Ensemble Commission
Monday, February 18, 6:00 pm, ESM 320 - OSSIA: Paul Miller, guest lecturer
Pre-concert lecture on Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Kreuzspiel"
Friday, February 15, 8:00 pm, ESM Annex 804 - Musica Nova
Featuring works by
Steve Reich and Michael Gordon, as well as the US premiere of Lukas Ligeti's Castle of Turns
Saturday, February 2, 9:00 pm, Kilbourn Hall - Jung Sun Kang, Composer/Pianist
MM Degree Recital featuring works by Jung Sun Kang (MM 08)
Also featuring Kang performing works by ESM faculty members David Liptak, Robert Morris and Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez
FALL 2007:
Monday, December 10, 8:00 p.m., Eastman Theatre - Eastman Philharmonia
Featuring Angelfire by Joseph Schwantner
Also featuring works by Peter Sculthorpe and Graeme Koehne
Thursday, December 6, 3:30 pm, ESM 209 - Symposium: Joseph Schwantner
Friday, November 30, 8:00 pm, Kilbourn Hall - Musica Nova
Featuring works by Brad Lubman, Philip Glass and Frank Zappa
Tuesday, November 27th, 8:00 pm, Kilbourn Hall - OSSIA New Music
Featuring works by Giacinto Sclesi, Liza Lim, Andrew Colella and Robert Pierzak, Also featuring ESM Professor of Viola John Graham
Friday, November 16th, 8:00 pm, Eastman Theatre - Eastman Philharmonia
Featuring Gogi by Baljinder Sekhon
Wednesday, November 14th, 8:00 pm, Eastman Theatre - Eastman Wind Ensemble
Featuring the music of Michael Daugherty, David Dzubay and Michael Maslanka
Wednesday, November 14th, 8:00 pm, Kilbourn Hall - Composers Forum
Featuring the music of Hendel Almétus, Daniel Gil-Marca, Justin Hoke, Jung-Sun Kang, Joungbum Lee and John Liberatore
Tuesday, November 13th, 8:00 pm, Kilbourn Hall - Faculty Artist Series
Composer, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez
Tuesday, November 6th, 8:00 pm, Kilbourn Hall - Composers Sinfonietta
Featuring the works of Elizabeth Kelly, Jung Sun Kang and Michaela Eremiasova