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.)
Endowed gift boosts humanities education at UR
(Rochester Beacon 10/16/2020)
The undisclosed amount establishes the Arthur Satz Department of Music and funds a minimum of five … Honey Meconi, a professor at the School of Arts and Sciences and Eastman School of Music, is the first to receive the honor. …
Gateways Music Fest announces fall program, schedule
(Monroe County Post 10/13/2020)
Gateways Music Festival, in association with Eastman School of Music, announced this year’s lineup of chamber music performances, solo recitals, …
Carmen Intorre Jr. QUARTET Makes LaZingara Debut
(HamletHub 10/15/2020)
Pat Bianchi, Grammy-nominated organist, winner of Downbeat Magazine’s 2016 rising star poll, and Hot House magazine’s 2019 poll, Pat Bianchi has established himself as one of the premier organists on the international scene today. …
Born in Rochester New York, Bianchi … While in grade school, he enrolled in The Eastman School of Music’s preparatory program for piano and music theory while at the same time being …
Sequoia Symphony goes virtual with ‘Musical Uplinks’
(Visalia Times-Delta 10/15/2020)
The first virtual concert on Oct. 23 will feature music by Walter Piston and George Walker, both American composers. …
Walker is one of two African-American composers featured in the series. He was the first African-American composer to graduate from the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, get a doctorate from Eastman School of Music and receive the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
(Chinadaily USA 10/12/2020)
Key, note presentation
Two young Chinese pianists, Li Jinhong and Shen Zeyu, will perform repertories including …, Li was enrolled to study at the Juilliard School in New York in 2018 and now he is pursuing his PhD at Eastman School of Music …
Waving her magic baton: MU music professor performs leadership role in arts community
(The Independent 10/16/2020)
Dr. Elizabeth Reed Smith, a professor of violin, viola and chamber music and conductor of the Marshall Symphony Orchestra, said she never thought she would conduct, in part, because there were so few opportunities for women, so she never took a conducting class while she studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. It wasn’t required for her degree in violin performance, either, and she never really aspired to be a conductor.
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