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NEWS
Announcing a new array of free online services—the Rochester Alumni Exchange—to keep alumni from all of the University of Rochester’s schools connected to their alma mater and the 100,000 other Rochester alumni around the globe.
In advance of the launch of these new features, there is a new login procedure that alumni will need to complete. Watch your mail for important information about this new procedure, including a Promo Code that is necessary to access the site for the first time.
Rochester Alumni Exchange features:
- All-Alumni Directory. Search a directory of all Rochester alumni to find former classmates, other alumni in your hometown, or those working in your field.
- Class Notes. New job, getting married, having a baby, or looking to catch up? Use the Class Notes feature to leave a note and see what classmates are up to.
- Facebook Connections. Are you a member of the largest social networking community? With a few clicks, connect your Rochester and Facebook profiles and add Class Notes to your Facebook page.
- Rochester Career Advisory Network. Create a profile and help other alumni and students in their career choices. Interested in changing jobs or careers? Find other alumni willing to give advice.
- Events Calendar. Find and register for alumni events securely and quickly.
Pictures from the 2009 NEW GRADUATE'S SOIREE!
This year's celebration for Eastman's newest graduating class took place on May 13, 2009 at the George Eastman House. Thanks to Gerry Szymanski for the great photography!
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Alumni Showcase
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Caleb Burhans (BM ’03), described by the New York Times as a “man of many talents” whose “name stands out on a roster,” has been awarded a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts. The prestigious and selective grant recognizes young artists—nominated by institutions invited to submit a candidate, in this case Eastman—whose accomplishments predict a career of national renown...... read more |
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In November 2008, Shizuo Kuwahara (BM ‘98) won First Prize in the 2008 Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition in Frankfurt am Main. “Z” (as he calls himself) won after conducting Weber’s “Oberon” Overture and Stravinsky’s “Firebird” Suite, and concluded the final round by leading Glinka’s “Russlan and Ludmilla” Overture. First prize consists of a cash prize of 15,000 Euros and invitations to conduct several German and international orchestras... read more |
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Last November, Houston Grand Opera (HGO) presented The Refuge, an opera with music by Christopher Theofanidis (MM ‘92) and libretto by Leah Lax that brings together the stories of the many different immigrant populations in Houston... read more |
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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s vaunted brass section has shone for many years ... Christopher Martin (BM ’97) was appointed CSO first trumpet in 2005, a position at the top of the orchestral trumpet world... read more |
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It’s certainly not unusual for the acclaimed Ying Quartet to be featured in Strings magazine, as it is in the October 2007 issue. What is unusual is the composer under discussion – not Beethoven or Bartók, but Broadway’s Stephen Sondheim. At a recent “Wall to Wall” event at New York’s Symphony Space devoted to the composer of Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, and other hit musicals, the Yings premiered Night Waltzes, an arrangement by Michael Starobin of three songs from Sondheim’s 1973 show A Little Night Music... read more |
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When your music is compared to the work of Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, and Aaron Copland — not to mention Ernest Hemingway — you’re probably doing something right. Judging from critical response to her newest album, Sky Blue, Grammy-winning jazz composer Maria Schneider (MM ’85) definitely did it right....read more |
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When the great Russian cellist, conductor, and human rights advocate Mstislav Rostropovich died in April of this year, Eastman cello students wasted no time in arranging a musical tribute to him...read more |
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Before he became a world-famous jazz composer and performer, Chuck Mangione (BM '63) was an Eastman student and teacher (1968-1972). The event that made his name was a 1970 Eastman Theatre concert of his music called Friends and Love, which led to a record, a hit single, a TV special - and in time many Grammy nominations, two Grammys, and an Emmy. On Memorial Day weekend, Chuck returned to the scene of his original triumph, and triumphed again with a recreation of the concert. read more |