Summer@Eastman is thrilled to announce its 2022 Summer Concert Series. This year’s Summer Concert Series starts June 27, 2022 with the Dave Rivello Ensemble in Kilbourn Hall and continues through August 6. All Summer Concerts are ticketed except for Eastman Summer Sings and all the Summer programs participants concerts.
Singers of all ages and abilities are invited to take part in “Eastman Summer Sings!,” the popular Eastman-Rochester Chorus series of choral music reading sessions under director William Weinert, Professor of Conducting and Director of Choral Activities at the Eastman School of Music. The series offers the Rochester community the opportunity to perform choral masterworks with Eastman faculty, Eastman students, and outstanding soloists from the area. Hundreds of Rochesterians have participated in these relaxed and engaging singing experiences through the years.
“Each summer, Eastman welcomes around 300 students from all over the country and the world who come to participate in our several in-person institutes and residential programs. Eastman faculty members perform every Summer to inspire their students as well as the entire Rochester community through a variety of concerts from jazz to classical guitar, music of Brazil to France and Italy, as well as contemporary music inspired by the Finger Lakes. The concerts are performed in a relaxed atmosphere, perfect for summer entertainment.”
The Eastman Community will be able to see various Eastman musicians and ensembles on different stages as part of the Summer Concert Series, such as:
Monday, June 27
- 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall: Dave Rivello Ensemble
Tuesday, June 28
- 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall: French Horn Institute Faculty Concert
- 7:30 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall: Rosa Boemia, Brazilian Choro
Wednesday, June 29
- 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall: Bob Sneider, Jazz Guitar
- 7:30 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall: Keyboard Explorations Faculty Concert
Thursday, June 30
- 7:30 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall: Clay Jenkins, Jazz Trumpet
Friday, July 1
- 7:30 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall: Cello Institute Faculty Concert
Tuesday, July 5
- Summer Sings! (Not ticketed but donations welcome)
- 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall: Vaughan Wiliams, Dona nobis pacem, William Weinert conducting
- CANCELLED 7:30 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall: Mark Kellogg, Trombone
Wednesday, July 6
- 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall: Mike Kaupa, Jazz Trumpet
Thursday, July 7
- 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall: Rich Thompson, Jazz Drums
- 7:30 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall: Kenneth Kam and Shiuen-Huang Suen, Guitar Solo and Duo
Tuesday, July 12
- Summer Sings! (Not ticketed but donations welcome)
- 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall: Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem, Choral Masterworks institute participants conducting
- 7:30 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall: American Wind Ensemble, Music of the Great Lakes
Monday, July 18
- 7:30 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall: Yoshiko Arahata, Piano
Tuesday, July 19
- Summer Sings! (Not ticketed but donations welcome)
- 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall: Choruses from Handel’s Messiah, conductors TBD
- 7:30 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall: Hats + Heels Duo, Music for Bassoon and Harp
Wednesday, July 20
- 7:30 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall: A Musical Travel Log from France to Italy with Carl Galland, Clarinet and Evelyn Lam, Piano
Thursday, July 21
- 7:30 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall: Leyendas y Paisajes (Legends and Landscapes) with Lynn McGrath, Guitar
Friday, July 22
- 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall: Music Without Borders
Tuesday, July 26
- Summer Sings! (Not ticketed but donations welcome)
- 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall: Mozart, Requiem, Colin Mann conducting
Monday, August 1
- 7:30 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall: The Artistic Flutist, Faculty Concert
Wednesday, August 3
- 7:30 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall: Nicholas Goluses, Guitar
For full event listings and tickets visit: https://www.esm.rochester.edu/theatre/events/
Visit the Summer@Eastman website at: https://summer.esm.rochester.edu/.
Program Contact: Sylvie Beaudette, Summer@Eastman Director, sbeaudette@esm.rochester.edu
Media only: Jessica Kaufman, Director of Communications, (585) 278-4743, jkaufman@esm.rochester.edu
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About Eastman School of Music:
The Eastman School of Music was founded in 1921 by industrialist and philanthropist George Eastman (1854-1932), founder of Eastman Kodak Company. It was the first professional school of the University of Rochester. Mr. Eastman’s dream was that his school would provide a broad education in the liberal arts as well as superb musical training.
More than 900 students are enrolled in the Collegiate Division of the Eastman School of Music—about 500 undergraduates and 400 graduate students. They come from almost every state, and approximately 23 percent are from other countries. They are taught by a faculty comprised of more than 130 highly regarded performers, composers, conductors, scholars, and educators. They are Pulitzer Prize winners, Grammy winners, Emmy winners, Guggenheim fellows, ASCAP Award recipients, published authors, recording artists, and acclaimed musicians who have performed in the world’s greatest concert halls. Each year, Eastman’s students, faculty members, and guest artists present more than 900 concerts to the Rochester community. Additionally, more than 1,700 members of the Rochester community, from young children through senior citizens, are enrolled in the Eastman Community Music School.
The three-semester-long Eastman Centennial celebration began in Fall 2021 and continues throughout 2022. Highlights include acclaimed guest artists performing alongside Eastman’s ensembles; national academic and music conferences; alumni events throughout the country; a documentary being produced in partnership with WXXI, and more. For up-to-date information on the Eastman Centennial, including feature stories, future events, videos, testimonials, ways to engage, and more, please visit our Centennial website at https://www.esm.rochester.edu/100.
About Summer@Eastman:
Summer@Eastman has played a significant role in the Eastman School of Music’s curriculum since the school’s beginnings in 1921. The first summer sessions mostly offered classes in “public school music,” now called MusicTeaching and Learning. Between 1954 and 1972, under Allen Irvine McHose’s leadership, Eastman’s Summer Session grew rapidly, thanks in part to innovative programs such as ‘Opera Under the Stars’ at the Highland Park, the Eastman Chamber Orchestra, and workshops for piano teachers, church musicians, librarians, saxophonists, and arrangers. The Summer Session was also instrumental (pun intended) in promoting the Suzuki method in the United States.
Today, Summer@Eastman—as Summer Session is now known–offers nearly 50 programs and courses every year including: a summers-only masters degree in Music Education; collegiate classes in Music Theory and Musicology; two pre-collegiate programs: Eastman Experience: Summer Classical Studies (for classical musicians), and Eastman Experience: Summer Jazz Studies; as well as various institutes, online workshops, and a full-day music camp.
About the University of Rochester:
The University of Rochester is one of the nation’s leading private research universities, one of only 62-member institutions in the Association of American Universities. Located in Rochester, N.Y., the University gives undergraduates exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close collaboration with faculty through its unique cluster-based curriculum. Its College, School of Arts and Sciences, and Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are complemented by the Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, School of Medicine and Dentistry, School of Nursing, Eastman Institute for Oral Health, and the Memorial Art Gallery.