Here are some select clippings from the past week 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.)
(Decorah Journal 09/07/2018)
Cellist Philip Borter, Luther College assistant professor of music, along with violinist Hirono Borter and Luther pianist Nicholas Shaneyfelt, will perform a recital as part of the Faculty Artist Series.
An assistant professor of music at Luther College, P. Borter holds a doctoral degree from Eastman School of Music. Studying with Steven Doane, P. Borter also earned a Master of Music in cello performance at the Eastman School. …
H. Borter earned a performance diploma from the Universität der Künste Berlin in Germany and a Master of Music at the Eastman School of Music. ….
Introducing Dr. Tracy Cowden, DMA
(UTSA The Paisano 09/06/2018)
This semester, the music department has acquired an ambitious new staff member who believes she can help propel the program forward. Dr. Tracy Cowden, DMA has been named the new chair of the music department. Notably, she is the first woman to hold the title in the department’s history. …
This particular passion for working collaboratively became her motive in attending graduate school, which led to earning her master’s degree in piano accompanying and chamber music. Later on, she also earned her doctorate of musical arts for the same degree at the distinguished Eastman School of Music.
(DC Metro Theater Arts 09/06/2018)
After a dramatic auditioning process that lasted the entirety of their 40th season, Washington Bach Consort has selected their new Artistic Director. The premiere Baroque chorus and orchestra that uses period instruments and was founded by the beloved J. Reilly Lewis in 1977, announced their appointment of Dr. Dana Marsh earlier this summer through a media partnership with Classical WETA 90.9 FM. …
Seemingly training for this position his whole life, Marsh’s musical career began as a boy chorister at St. Thomas Choir School in New York and at Salisbury Cathedral in England. He earned his undergraduate degree in organ performance from the Eastman School of Music, …
Former Sanford man joins Richmond Symphony as principal trumpet
(Midland Daily News 09/06/2018)
Sam Huss is living his dream of playing the trumpet. The former Sanford resident began playing the instrument in fifth grade and now is employed with the Richmond Symphony in Virginia. …
Huss worked hard learning the instrument. He practiced under the tutelage of Matthew Shephard at Meridian High School before earning a bachelor of music performance from Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.
A rare violin from 1683, worth millions, will be a prize in Indy. Here’s why it’s special.
(Indianapolis Star 09/04/2018)
A Stradivarius violin worth millions of dollars is the major prize that 40 of the world’s best young violinists will compete to wrap their fingers around.
Whoever plays it next will join an eclectic cast, some of whom have reached the stratosphere of their craft and some of whom were just plain rich. […]
Durant didn’t keep the prized Strad for long. Before 1920 he sold it to Jacques Gordon, the child-prodigy-turned-virtuoso concertmaster of the Chicago Symphony in the 1920s, Reuning said his records show.
Classical music fans knew the Russian-born Gordon for his spectacular concert-hall performances and for teaching at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y. …
William & Mary celebrates 100 years of women with concert series
(Williamsburg Yorktown Daily 09/04/2018)
William & Mary became the first co-educational university in Virginia in the fall of 1918 when the college admitted 24 women as undergraduate students, according to a release from the college.
Laura Strickling and Joy Schreier will perform … to open the series. Strickling is a soprano who has performed with the American Liszt Society, the Brooklyn Art Song Society, the Richmond Symphony and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. Schreier is an accompanist from the Eastman School of Music.
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