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.)
National Park Centennial Brings Music to Mammoth Cave
(WKU Public Radio June 9, 2016)
Imagine hearing music reverberating through caves or echoing across mountains. This summer, an ensemble of musicians from the Eastman School of Music in New York will be visiting national parks throughout the country and performing in the natural venues. It’s part of the national park service’s 100th anniversary.
The first stop on the tour is Mammoth Cave National Park in south central Kentucky. Emlyn Johnson is directing the project called Music in the American Wild. She visited the park in December to scout out the venue and test the acoustics. “I don’t think I had ever been in a cave before. I was just amazed,” Johnson told WKU Public Radio. “I got to play my flute in some of the big caverns and it was like playing in a glorious concert hall.” (Also reported by WKMS, WEKU)
Explore dinos, fish for free, take in a movie
(Knoxville News Sentinel June 9, 2016)
Music comes to Cades Cove
A performance by musicians with the Eastman School of Music in New York will perform June 15 at Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The event celebrates the National Park Service’s centennial.
The 7 p.m. June 15 performance is at the Cades Cove amphitheater. The program is free; reservations aren’t needed. Musicians perform on the flute, clarinet, horn, violin, viola, cello and percussion instruments. The concert is part of the Music in the American Wild program, which is held through a Imagine Your Parks grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the park service. (Also reported by The Courier-Journal, The Charlottesville Newsplex)
Winston-Salem organ concerts reveal variety of sounds
(Winston-Salem Journal June 12, 2016)
For the fourth year, Dreama Lovitt, Ray Ebert and Tim Olsen have programmed concerts on pipe organs throughout Winston-Salem, designed to show what these mighty, mighty instruments can do.
Lovitt, 37, has been music director at Ardmore Methodist for 13 years. She grew up in Floyd, Va., and has a master’s degree from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y.
Local college camps explore new frontiers in technology
(Democrat and Chronicle June 10, 2016)
One of the more far-reaching programs of the summer is being offered by Roberts Wesleyan College’s International Music Camp, which runs from July 25 through July 30 and will host 62 students from Nanjing # 1 High School in China and 15 U.S. high school students.
The orchestra for this camp will be under the supervision of Paul Shewan, director of instrumental studies at Roberts Wesleyan, while the band will be under the direction of Mark Scatterday, conductor of the Eastman School of Music Wind Ensemble.
Leelanau Summer Music Festival’s Music of the British Isles
(MyNorth.com June 9, 2016)
Flutist Richard Sherman and pianist Genadi Zago will perform at the Leelanau Summer Music Festival.
Flutist Richard Sherman has performed across the state, country and world. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, …
Inside Look: The 2016 MIPC Judges
(Iowa Public Radio June 9, 2016)
The second Midwest International Piano Competition is in full swing at UNI’s Gallagher-Bluedorn in Cedar Falls! The world-renowned pianists and teachers serving as this year’s judges include Eric Larsen, Craig Sheppard, and Nelita True.
Nelita True made her debut at age seventeen with the Chicago Symphony in Orchestra Hall and her New York debut with the Juilliard Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall. Her career has taken her to all the major cities of Europe, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, Mexico, Iceland, New Zealand, Brazil, Australia, Canada, India, and the U.S. along with Hong Kong and Singapore. Formerly Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland, Ms. True is currently Professor of Music at the Eastman School of Music.
Scholastic Fantastic: The Music of Science
(Inlander June 9, 2016)
Using Arduino technology, a Whitworth University professor has expanded music into a new realm of possibilities
Brent Edstrom is a jazzman. His mind was never satisfied with the confines of classical piano, his chosen instrument, but within jazz music’s infinite improvisation, there was pure freedom.
Edstrom, who holds a master’s degree from the prestigious Eastman School of Music and has composed and arranged for the publishing giant Hal …
Guitar stars align for Falletta concerto competition
(Buffalo.com June 8, 2016)
French guitarist Thomas Viloteau is among the guitarists participating in this year’s JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition. Viloteau is finishing his doctoral studies at the Eastman School of Music. He is the author of a book on classical guitar technique and has recorded for Naxos, Mel Bay and La Ma de Guido.
Author Marianne Langner Zeitlin dead at 90
(Democrat and Chronicle June 7, 2016)
While working at the American Israel Cultural Foundation in 1950, she met concert violinist Zvi Zeitlin and the couple wed and enjoyed 61 years of marriage. In 1967, the family moved to Rochester.
Zvi became a professor of violin at the Eastman School of Music, where he taught for 45 years. The internationally renowned performer would go on to become one of the Eastman School’s brightest stars, but Mrs. Langner Zeitlin left her mark on the community, too.
Summer’s Here and the Time is Right for Live Theatre in The ROC!
(Democrat and Chronicle (blog) June 6, 2016)
And, by the way, don’t forget to check out The Downstairs Cabaret’s Grove Street Jazz Project during the Jazz Fest. I just got the line-up from their website and there’s going to be great stuff there every night during Rochester’s premier music fest! The Grove Place Jazz Project is presented weekly on Tuesday’s at 7:00 pm in association with Eastman School of Music jazz students. It’s co-sponsored by the Friends of The Grove Place Jazz Project and plays at 20 Windsor St.
(Montana Standard June 6, 2016)
Aug. 7 — St. Timothy’s Summer Festival at the chapel near Georgetown Lake presents The Young Montana Musician’s Spotlight which features Stephanie Anderson, sophomore at Eastman School of Music performing a trumpet solo with
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