Here are some select recent clippings showing the variety of hits/mentions identifying musicians and scholars as Eastman School of Music alumni, faculty or students. (Note: Some links may have expired.)
(Portland Press-Herald 07/23/2015)
This year, 250 young players have come to Bowdoin for six weeks of study with musicians from orchestras, chamber groups and conservatories around the world. The concerts, in which students and faculty perform together as peers, are simply a part of the festival’s educational mission.
In Mozart’s Flute Quartet in D major (K. 285), which opened the concert, two students – Beomjae Kim, flutist, and Janet Sung, violinist – were joined by the violist Jeffrey Irvine and the cellist Rosemary Elliott from the faculty. It was a lovely reading that warmed as it unfolded.
The work at hand was Dvorak’s “Dumky” Trio (Op. 90), a big slice of Romanticism in which lush, slow passages morph into sizzling dances. The players were the violinist Frank Huang, who takes up his new position as the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic next season; the cellist David Ying, who shares the festival’s artistic direction with his brother Philip (they are both members of the Ying Quartet), and the pianist Elinor Freer, from the faculty of the Eastman School of Music (and David Ying’s wife).
Bermel’s evocative performance was supported by colorful playing from the violinist Renee Jolles and the cellist David Requiro, from the faculty, and two students, Emily Brandenberg, violist, and Seo Hee Min, violinist.
New show in Brockton museum shines with glass and metal
(Boston Globe 07/28/2015)
FOUR HANDS: Brothers James and Robert Freeman will perform a duo-piano concert including work by Gunther Schuller, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Francis Poulenc, performed on the Art Complex Museum’s two Steinway pianos. James Freeman is the artistic director and conductor of Orchestra 2001, Philadelphia’s award-winning ensemble for 20th- and 21st-century music. Robert Freeman has led several of America’s finest music schools, including Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., where he was director for more than two decades, and as president of the New England Conservatory.
The Symphonic Randall Thompson
(WRTI 90.1 07/29/2015)
Graduating from Harvard in 1920, he received his doctorate from the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. Thompson went on to teach at Wellesley College, Berkeley, the Curtis Institute of Music—where he was its director from 1941 to ’42—the University of Virginia, and Princeton; in 1948, he returned to Harvard to teach.
Howard Hanson conducted the premiere of Symphony No. 1 with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra at Eastman in 1930, as part of Hanson’s seminal American Composers Concerts series. In 1932, Symphony No. 2 began life under the same auspices.
Computer scientist, musician Liston an Asheville candidate
(Asheville Citizen-Times 07/21/2015)
A former computer science professor and musician said he wants to create “the transportation system of the future, right here.”
Richard Liston, who lists degrees including a doctorate in computer science from Georgia Tech and a masters of music from Eastman School of Music in New York, was one of several candidates to file shortly before Friday’s deadline to run for City Council.
BPO Dresses Down for Summer Knights
(ArtVoice 07/23/2015)
Luckily, the forces that be at the BPO feel exactly the same way, since this summer’s final concert in Kleinhans is another all-Mozart event that should be not be missed, since it features the fresh young singer, Emily Helenbrook. Last March Emily appeared with the BPO as the angelically voiced soprano in the orchestra’s highly effective semi-staged presentation of Beethoven’s complete incidental music to Goethe’s drama Egmont.
Helenbrook, who will be entering her senior year at the Eastman School of Music in the fall, will be singing Blondchen’s aria “Durch Zärtlichkeit und Schmeicheln”, from The Abduction from the Seraglio.
Ithaca school district names administrators
(Ithaca Journal 07/20/2015)
The Ithaca City School District recently filled two administrative positions by promoting from within. Liddy Coyle was appointed chief academic officer and David Brown was named chief administration officer.
Brown has spent 27 years in public education, earning degrees from Ithaca College and Nazareth College in music and theater, an advanced degree in public school administration from SUNY Brockport and doctoral work in music theory and opera at the Eastman School of Music. He is also an executive board member for the New York State School Music Association.
(SooToday.com 07/23/2015)
Join mezzo-soprano Reilly Nelson and pianist Brad Irwin for a special evening of song.
Reilly attended Eastman School of Music where she received a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance. A year later she completed her Masters Of Music in Vocal Performance at Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.
Penfield’s “Cool Jazz” Tuesday Series Brought the Jim Doser Group to the Amphitheater
(Rochester Democrat & Chronicle © 07/23/2015)
As part of “Cool Jazz” Tuesday, the Penfield Recreation Department scheduled the Jim Doser Group to perform at the Amphitheater on the evening of July 22nd. I had no idea – when Penfield Town Supervisor, Tony LaFountain, introduced the Jim Doser Group to the audience – how much more than a band leader Jim Doser is.
Some examples:
** He is the new Director of the Eastman School of Music‘s Institute for Music Leadership.