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.)
(Rochester Business Journal 11/21/2018)
Eastman School of Music is hosting Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist Danilo Perez as a visiting guest artist this month.
Under the direction of Bill Dobbins, associate professor of jazz studies and contemporary media, Perez will perform alongside the Eastman Jazz Ensemble at their concert next week. […]
(RochesterFirst 11/20/2018)
The Rochester Broadway Theatre League will present “Les Miserables” … The touring production brings with it Eastman alum Matt Moisey, who discussed the show and its popularity […]
This week will be a homecoming of sorts for Moisey, who graduated from the Eastman School of Music in 2014. “I think what Eastman really teaches you, because you focus on lots of different kinds of music and art in such detail, that I think it taught me to love what I’m doing, love the score you’re doing and really love it by focusing on it and studying it and mining it for detail and expressive potential. It basically turned me into a loving musician.” (Also reported by WHEC)
Opera Club dazzles Villagers with young talent to raise scholarship money
(Villages-News 11/18/2018)
Pianist Moriah Trenk came from Boston, while classical guitarist Collin Holloway had to fly from Rochester, N.Y. Both battled winter weather.
“Florida is warm; it’s so cold in Rochester – we just got about six inches of snow,” said Holloway, who is studying at The Eastman School of Music. …
Flight of the Concord: Donna Coleman plays a great white whale of a sonata
(Santa Fe New Mexican 11/23/2018)
Pianist Donna Coleman is a woman obsessed. She has played plenty of music in her lifetime, enough to earn a master’s at the … and a doctor of musical arts degree at the Eastman School of Music. But ever since her student years, […]
Midlakes grad, RPO musician to return for Nov. 27 concert
(MPNnow.com 11/21/2018)
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra musician Lisa Albrecht learned how being last in line led to a career playing the trombone. […]
Albrecht, an Eastman School of Music graduate and a trombonist with the RPO, …. She has credits in more than 20 Broadway productions.
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