Guy Johnston. Photograph by Kaupo Kikkas By Jessica Kaufman Assistant Director of Content and Public Relations, Eastman School of Music The incoming and current cello classes are gaining an additional valued member to our faculty, as Guy Johnston joins Eastman this fall. Born into a musical family, Guy started his musical journey as a chorister…
by Katie Fittipaldi When musicians I meet find out that I teach Alexander Technique, their first response is usually something like: “Wow, that is so cool! I have always wanted to study Alexander Technique!” Why are musicians so excited about Alexander Technique? Developed by F. Matthias Alexander, the Alexander Technique is an educational method used…
Adam Sadberry. Photographs by Kaila Delany On Tuesday, April 24, flutist Adam Sadberry will perform live on WXXI-FM’s show Backstage Pass. But this Eastman senior from the studio of Bonnie Boyd has already had a momentous year. In February, Adam won the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s African-American Fellowship. Adam will be a member of the DSO…
Participants in the 2017 Trumpet Retreat, in the chapel of Keuka College This year, Summer@Eastman offers a Trumpet and Trombone Retreat at Keuka for adult players (June 24 through June 30) as well as a Trumpet Institute on the Eastman campus for high school and collegiate students (July 29 through August 3). Both feature Eastman…
Marian McPartland at Eastman in 2006 By Dan Gross An accomplished jazz pianist, Marian McPartland (1918-2013) was a much-beloved presence on National Public Radio as host of Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz for more than three decades. Piano Jazz offered listeners an intimate, insider’s perspective on the elusive world of jazz improvisation. On her weekly broadcast,…
Eastman Associate Professor Edoardo Bellotti introduces Summer Organ Academy students to Eastman’s Italian Baroque Organ at the Memorial Art Gallery By Caroline Robinson, Coordinator, Eastman High School Organ Academy In the summer of 2015, the Eastman Organ Department held its first official Summer Academy for High School Organists, having hosted a Pipe Organ Encounter via…
By Hattie Bestul Clarinetist Hattie Bestul is currently completing her Master’s degree in Performance and Literature at Eastman and working as an Arts Leadership Program intern at the Eastman Community Music School. At Eastman’s Summer Jazz Studies, students play in jam sessions, learn jazz theory, try their hand with improvisation and composing, and perform in…
By Katja Pennypacker Soprano Katja Pennypacker attended the Eastman Community Music School’s Music Horizons summer program in 2015. She is now a freshman vocal performance major at Eastman, studying with Kathryn Cowdrick. Participating in the Music Horizons voice program was a life-changing experience for me and the reason why Eastman was my first-choice school for…
Dynamic, creepy, and committed: the cast of Eastman Opera Theatre’s Les Enfants Terribles By Kameron Ghanavati Photographs by Nic Minetor Les Enfants Terribles officially opens this weekend at Eastman to a sold-out audience. And rightfully so, given the intricate staging juxtaposed with transcendent music and intimate performances by the cast. I was able to attend…
Bernard Herrmann, shown in Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much This Monday, January 29, Eastman offers the opportunity to go to a concert and to the movies, when the Empire Film Music Ensemble, collaborating with the Eastman School of Music’s Beal Institute of Film Music and Contemporary Media, presents an evening of music by…