Eastman Faculty

More than 130 highly regarded performers, composers, conductors, scholars, and educators make up the Eastman faculty: Pulitzer Prize-winners, Grammy winners, Guggenheim Fellows, ASCAP Award recipients, published authors, recording artists, and acclaimed musicians who have performed in the world's greatest concert halls. Eastman's full-time, resident faculty members know their students personally, becoming mentors to them and forging lifelong friendships:

Recent Faculty Highlights

March 2009 — In January, Associate Professor of Composition Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez received a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University. He is one of only 12 composers selected for one of the most prestigious awards in musical composition, which includes a $10,000 prize. (Eastman professor Allan Schindler won a Fromm award in 2007.) Carlos will write a work for the new-music ensemble eighth blackbird to perform at the 2010 Look and Listen Festival in New York.

March 2009 — Professor of Lute Paul O'Dette received his fifth Grammy nomination this winter, as conductor (with Stephen Stubbs) of Lully's opera Psyché, performed by the Boston Early Music Festival. Paul and the BEMF were also nominated last year for Best Opera Recording for their CD of Lully's Thésée.

March 2009 — Professor of Violin Mikhail Kopelman is featured in a program of string quartets by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich performed by the Borodin Quartet (Medici Arts 2072298). Recorded in London's Henry Wood Hall in October 1987, the leading proponents of Russian chamber music perform two of Tchaikovsky's three quartets, as well as the third and eighth Shostakovich quartets - all works closely associated with them.

March 2009 — On September 18, the University honored faculty members who hold named professorships or other distinctions. Each received a medal inscribed with the motto Meliora and his or her name, presented by President Joel Seligman. The recipients included Eastman's Donna Brink Fox, Eisenhart Professor of Music Education, and Professor of Musicology Kim Kowalke, who is the University's Turner Professor of Humanities.

March 2009 — Instructor of Clarinet and Woodwind Chamber Music Robert DiLutis explores music of the "French School" of classical clarinet and more in his new release Arlequin (available at CDBaby.com). The varied program includes music by Schumann, Stravinsky, Finzi, and Prokofiev.