Congratulations to Yunxin (Dorothy) Nie for winning the Neva Stevens Pilgrim Award at the Civic Morning Musicals 48th Annual Competition for Singers, taking home a $500 prize. The competition was held on February 8 in Syracuse, NY. Dorothy is a second-year, undergraduate soprano from the studio of Professor Kathryn Cowdrick.
Congratulations to Evan Martschenko, a first-year PhD Theory student, for publishing an article in Music Theory Online, one of the discipline’s top peer-reviewed journals. Evan’s article, “‘Feel the Emptiness’: Micro-Schemata in the Music of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki,” demonstrates that a few key threads define Górecki’s compositional language even as his style ranged from Polish sonorism…
Congratulations to Sō Percussion including Jason Treuting ’99E for winning Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals in the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.’s 67th GRAMMY Awards that took place on Sunday, February 2, 2025. Jason earned his Bachelors in Music and the Performer’s Certificate at Eastman where he studied percussion with John Beck…
Eastman’s songSLAM took place Saturday, February 1, with a standing-room only crowd in Sproull Atrium! Hosted by Associate Professor of Vocal Coaching Alison d’Amato and co-founder of Sparks and Wiry Cries Martha Guth, the celebration of new song works premiered fourteen composer-performer teams with a wide range of styles, texts, and duo collaborations. Winners were…
Tenor Travon D. Walker ’21E has joined IMG Artists’ roster for general management, where he will be represented by Associate Artist Manager, Noah Sesling ’22E. Travon, a current second-year young artist at The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, graduated from Eastman with a Bachelor of Music degree in vocal performance. Noah, also…
Congratulations to Alexandra Rose Hotz ’20E (MM), ’23E (DMA) for winning the Joy In Singing’s 60th International Art Song Competition, where she received a cash prize and will be singing in a debut performance at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 7:00 pm. Alexandra is formerly from the studio…
Congratulations to Paul David Flood, PhD Musicology candidate, for being the 2024 winner of the Presser Graduate Music Award, a substantial grant from the Presser Foundation to support a professional-development project by a graduate student. During the summer of 2024, he traveled to Malmö, Sweden to pursue innovative ethnographic research into the cultural significance of…
Congratulations to senior horn performance major Morgan Chalmers for winning a position with the horn section of The United States Army Field Band, the touring ensemble of the Army music program. She will begin her appointment after she graduates in May 2025. Morgan is from the studio of Peter Kurau.
Congratulations to Yiran Zhao, a DMA conducting student, who is the winner of the American Prize in Composition in the college/university division for shorter works for chorus.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Freimuth ’96E on her appointment as professor of horn at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. Freimuth received bachelor’s degrees from Eastman in French horn and music education. She is currently the principal horn and Mary M. & Charles F. Yeiser Chair of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO).