Vocal Quartet säje Performs at Eastman Following GRAMMY Win
The vocal quartet säje visits Eastman on Saturday, April 6 as part of their debut album release tour and just on the heels of a recent GRAMMY Award win.
Eastman Students find Faith and Agency in Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmélites”
EOT’s production of “Dialogues des Carmélites,” set during the French Revolution’s “Reign of Terror,” runs April 4-7, 2024.
“Encounters with the Schumanns” Merges Musical Scholarship with Performance on April 3
The music of Robert and Clara Schumann will be the subject of a multifaceted event that brings together scholarship and performance called “Encounters with the Schumanns: Listening, Thinking, Interpreting” on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. The three-part event includes a “Listening” roundtable with faculty and guest scholars at 9:30 a.m.; a “Thinking” seminar (for students only);…
Eastman Celebrates Named Professors For Women’s History Month
Celebrating Katherine Ciesinski, Martin E. and Corazon D. Sanders Professor of Voice; Renée Jolles, Wegman Family Professor of Violin; and Holly Watkins, Minehan Family Professor, for Women’s History Month.
Celebrating Robert Morris’s Retirement in a Joint Faculty Artist Series Recital
Even for fans of serial music, the tightly constructed nature of pitches arranged without the safety net of functional harmony is hard to ascertain upon hearing. But for Robert Morris, the venerable professor of composition at the Eastman School of Music who retires at the end of the academic year after 44 years teaching at…
Celebrating Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez’s Retirement in a Joint Faculty Artist Series Recital
When composer Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez was growing up in Mexico, he started a rock band. He wrote the music and told his band members to go home and practice so they could show up prepared for rehearsals. “I ran my band like one would run a chamber ensemble,” he says. “I didn’t know that at the…
Ushering In the Next Generation of Chamber Musicians
The James E. Clark Chamber Music Residency welcomes The JACK Quartet and WindSync to Eastman this spring semester.
Introducing Lady Blackbird
The jazz and soul singer and songwriter Lady Blackbird debuts in the Kilbourn Series at the Eastman School of Music this Thursday, February 22 at 7:30 PM in Kilbourn Hall. The singer’s moniker came while recording Nina Simone’s 1966 song “Blackbird,” a song that captured the struggles of the Civil Rights movement with lyrics like…
Musica Nova Invites You On a Journey
Since it was established in the 1960s, the mission of Eastman’s Musica Nova ensemble has been to expose Eastman students to hearing and performing the music of their time. The styles of “new music” have changed a lot in nearly 60 years, and the ensemble, under its current director Brad Lubman, has kept pace with…
Keeping the New in New Music
Originally published in the Fall 2023 issue of Notes, Eastman’s alumni magazine. New Music at the Eastman School of Music was built into the school’s foundations by its first director, Howard Hanson, a celebrated composer. His American Composers Concerts, which began in 1925 to perform the works of living, American composers, gave way to a…