Women in Music Festival
Women in Music Festival 2022
Centennial Edition March 21-25, 2022
As part of the Eastman School of Music Centennial celebration, we are bringing back the weeklong Women in Music Festival that took place annually from 2005 to 2014 during Women’s History Month. For the 2022 edition, we are celebrating composer Florence B. Price, women in brass and in jazz, and Mexican composer Georgina Derbez. We are also welcoming back alumni Nicole Keller, organist, and Leonard Hayes, pianist. See the Festival Schedule below for an overview of the events.
Download the Women in Music Festival booklet HERE
Read the blog: “Failure Is Still Impossible! Eastman’s Women in Music Festival Returns“
Festival Schedule:
Monday, March 21, 2022
12:00-1:00 p.m. | Lunchtime Concert Lowry Hall, Eastman School of Music |
3:30-5:00 p.m. |
Panel Discussion: Women in Jazz PANELISTS: Roxy Coss, Musician, Composer, Bandleader, Educator, Activist, and Founder and President of Women In Jazz Organization (WIJO), based in NYC MODERATOR: Sarah Navratil, Jazz Saxophone major, Eastman School of Music Link to online panel: https://rochester.zoom.us/j/99364520284
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7:30 p.m. |
Kilbourn Concert Series: Lorelei Ensemble. Music by: Barbara Strozzi, BJÖRK, Caroline Shaw, and Laura Mvula. Full concert program at the door. TICKETED |
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
12:10-1:00 p.m. |
Tuesday Pipes: Organ Works by Florence B. Price Guest organist: Nicole Keller, Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music in Berea, Ohio; Associate Organist at Trinity Cathedral (Episcopal) in Cleveland Full concert program at the door.
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3:30-5:00 p.m. |
Panel Discussion: Women in Brass PANELISTS: Joanna Ross Hersey, Professor of Music, UNC Pembroke, President, IWBC Link to online panel: https://rochester.zoom.us/j/97305366528
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7:30 p.m. |
Eastman Horn Choir Premieres of Pamela Marshall’s Out of the Depths and Jennifer Bellor’s Ballad of a Wanderer.Full concert program at the door. Livestream: https://www.esm.rochester.edu/live/
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Wednesday, March 23
12:00-1:00 p.m. |
Lunchtime Concert
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2:00-3:00 p.m. |
Presentation: Negotiations for Women Rachel Roberts, Director of the Institute for Music Leadership, Eastman School of Music Find out more about Rachel Roberts: https://www.esm.rochester.edu/faculty/rachel-roberts/ Link to livestream: https://rochester.zoom.us/j/94008753193
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7:30 p.m. |
Eastman Wind Ensemble and Eastman Wind Orchestra Music by Nancy Galbraith, Shuying Li, Erica Muhl, Augusta Read Thomas, Diana Rosenblum, and Alex Shapiro Livestream: https://www.esm.rochester.edu/live/
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Thursday, March 24
12:00-1:00 p.m. |
Lunchtime concert “Eastman @ Washington Square.”
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3:30-5:00 p.m. |
Composers Forum: Georgina Derbez Learn more about Georgina Derbez at: http://www.georginaderbez.com/es_es/
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7:30 p.m. |
Special “Fourth Thursday” at the MAG: Song and Dance: Old and New Music by Women Composers on the Italian Baroque Organ Guest organist: Anne Laver, Assistant Professor of Organ and University Organist at Syracuse University’s Setnor School of Music. Premiere of Natalie Draper’s Pattern Dances for Meantone Organ with the collaboration of dancers from The School of the Arts. Concert FREE with MAG admission.
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Friday, March 25
9:00-11:45 a.m. |
Florence Price Symposium, Humanities Corridor Project. Welcome by Jamal Rossi, Joan and Martin Messinger Dean Session I: Black Idioms in the Music of Florence B. Price Session II: The Caged Bird: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price.
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12:00-1:00 p.m. |
Lunchtime Concert Lunch: pre-order by Tuesday, March 22 (midnight) from Java’s Café:
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1:30-5:00 p.m. |
Florence Price Symposium, Humanities Corridor Project. Session III – No Gender Equity Without Intersectionality: Eastman Student Panel Discussion Session V — Archival Work and Analysis of Florence Price’s Art Songs. Stephen Spinelli (Cornell University), Tamara Acosta (Cornell University and Ithaca College), Charity Lofthouse (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), Sarah Marlowe (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester) Livestream: https://www.esm.rochester.edu/live/
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7:30 p.m. |
Florence Price Legacy Concert.
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KEEP THE WOMEN IN MUSIC FESTIVAL GOING!
The Music She Writes: A Celebration of Asian Female Composers*
Virtual Festival
The Music She Writes is a virtual festival highlighting the diversity and significance of music by Asian Female Composers within the contemporary music landscape. Organized by Eastman School of Music alumne composer Ania Vu and pianist Eunmi Ko, this series of four virtual concerts will broadcast every other Friday at 7:00 p.m.from April 1st to May 13th 2022 as part of the Eastman Centennial “100 concerts to celebrate 100 years” at: https://www.rochester.edu/adv/eastman-centennial/get-involved/100-concerts/
April 1, 2022: Where There Are Mountains, Snow, and Trees
April 15, 2022: What Is Lost and What Remains
April 29, 2022: Old Made Anew
May 13, 2022: Giving a Voice
*This project is made possible by a grant from the
Eastman Departmental Diversity Initiative committee.