Eastman School of Music alumna Maria Schneider (MM ’85) won a Grammy Award February 10 in the Best Instrumental Composition category for her work “Cerulean Skies.” The win is the second Grammy for the jazz composer, who won the 2005 award for Best Ensemble Album for Concert in the Garden, the first Grammy-winning recording with…
The beautiful pictures from the High Baroque that surround the Italian organ in the Memorial Art Gallery create the perfect backdrop for the next Organ Showcase Concert at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17. “Musical Pictures from the High Baroque” will explore the importance of visual images to Baroque composers. From Biblical stories to Greek classical…
Roland Vazquez, whose innovative jazz-fusion compositions and concerts have earned praise for three decades, will coach and rehearse ensembles and perform with students as part of his residency at the Eastman School of Music this month. Eastman Chamber Jazz will present a concert of all-Vazquez works on Monday, Feb. 11, and Vazquez will join the…
Local audiences have another opportunity to enjoy the Ying Quartet in performance this season when the Eastman School of Music’s string quartet-in-residence appears at Kilbourn Hall at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 17. The recital will feature new works from composers Sebastian Currier and Lowell Liebermann which were commissioned by the Ying Quartet for its…
Ensemble East will bring the rich and unique sounds of Japanese music to Kilbourn Hall when the group performs at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, as part of the Eastman School of Music’s World Music Series. Performing traditional and modern music, Ensemble East combines the haunting sound of the shakuhachi (vertical bamboo flute) with the…
Renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Yehudi Wyner is this year’s Howard Hanson Visiting Professor of Composition at the Eastman School of Music and will be at the School from Feb. 12 to March 7. During his residency, Wyner will present seminars and will meet with eight students each week in composition tutorials. He will return to…
One of the world’s most recorded and honored living composers of orchestra music, Nancy Van de Vate, will be in-residence at the Eastman School of Music for the 2008 Women in Music Festival and will be present for the premiere of “A Long Road Travelled: Suite for Viola and String Quartet.” Violist John Graham and…
Elinor Freer and David Ying have received a Special Recognition Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and Chamber Music America as artistic directors of the Skaneateles Chamber Music Festival. The festival was cited in the CMA/ASCAP Adventurous Programming Awards competition, which provides special recognition to ensembles, festivals, and presenters that prominently…
The Tokyo String Quartet will present an all-Beethoven program at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, in the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall as part of the annual Eastman-Ranlet Series of string quartet performances. Regarded as one of the supreme chamber ensembles of the world, the Tokyo String Quartet has released more than 40 landmark…