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.)
URMC, Eastman School to Study Music as Medicine
(Spectrum News 05/06/2019)
Music and medicine are meshing at the Rochester region’s largest hospital and music school. The new Eastman Performing Arts Medicine program …
CITY Newspaper’s 2019 Festival Preview Guide
(City Newspaper 05/08/2019)
Tuesday, August 6 through Sunday, August 11
Get classical. This event features African-American classical musicians and composers participating in 50 performances. The concerts are in association with the Eastman School of Music. gatewaysmusicfestival.org
(The United States Navy Band 05/13/2019)
Meet the Musician
Chief Musician Eric Lopez, … He earned a Bachelor of Music from Western Illinois University in 1995 and a Master of Music from The Eastman School of Music in 1997. He is also a recipient of a Performer’s Certificate from The Eastman School of Music. His teachers include …
The Fearless Curiosity of the Ying Quartet
(Image Journal © 05/08/2019)
Of all the arts, music is the most difficult to write about. Maybe because it exists only through time — only in the moment that you hear it? Maybe because it has no verbal or visual dimensions?
What I can say is that the Ying Quartet — one of the leading string quartets in the world — plays as if it’s a single performer. That togetherness among the four musicians is astounding. I don’t mean just that they hit the right notes at the same time; any professional string quartet does that. I mean I witness, when I watch them perform, an extraordinary togetherness of interpretation.
This togetherness is all the more remarkable because the Ying is no longer composed of the four siblings who first created the quartet: Timothy and Janet on violin, Philip on viola, David on cello.
I’ve followed the Ying Quartet since their founding in 1988, when they were doctoral students at the Eastman School of Music in my home town of Rochester, New York.
In 1997, only five years after their graduation from Eastman, the Ying were appointed Faculty Quartet-in-Residence at the Eastman School of Music.
Concert series continues May 19
(MyEasternShoreMD 05/07/2019)
The Christ Church Concert Series will continue …, with Peter DuBois, organist, host and producer of nationally syndicated public radio program “With Heart and Voice.” …
From 2000 to 2014, he also served as assistant professor of sacred music at the Eastman School of Music and was director of the Sacred Music …
From 2000 to 2014, he also served as assistant professor of sacred music at the Eastman School of Music and was director of the Sacred Music Diploma program there. … He holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan, where his organ studies were with David Craighead and Robert Glasgow. …
Front-Row Seat: Coming up: Chamber festivals, recital winners
(MPNnow.com 05/09/2019)
Clarinetist Sam Reeder of Pittsford and violinist Andrew Guo of Brighton — winners of the 2019 David Hochstein Recital Competition — …
Reeder is a senior … and currently studies with Kenneth Grant at the Eastman School of Music. …
Guo, a sophomore at Brighton High School, began playing the violin at age 8 and studies with Renée Jolles at the Eastman School of Music. Guo has …
Tuesday Arts Miscellany: May 7, 2019
(artsknoxville.com 05/07/2019)
The Knoxville Concert Series is funded in part by a grant by the Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation and Research at the Eastman School of Music.
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