Post and photographs by Dan Gross On April 1, 2016, jazz bassist Scott Colley visited Eastman to talk with jazz students and to perform with them in an Eastman “Jazz Cafe.” Here’s a report from blogger Dan Gross on Colley’s visit. They seem like a pair out of a movie. A professorial-looking man, with beard,…
On April 9, 2016, Eastman hosted the second Tallon Perkes Flute Competition, held in memory of Eastman alumnus Tallon Perkes (BM ’84) to inspire the next generation of Eastman flute players. This year’s winner is Chris Wong, a sophomore student of Bonita Boyd. Chris is pictured here with the competition judges – from left to…
Dalcroze Eurhythmics teacher Monica Dale by Andrea Schuler, Summer@Eastman Program Coordinator “Pity the musicians; they never get to dance.” One of the central paradoxes of being a performing musician is the fact that so often, while playing, we experience our performance almost abstractly, as a collection of mechanical processes in our brains, hands, and vocal…
By Eric Laprade The Eastman Wind Orchestra, under the direction of Professor Mark Davis Scatterday, will present its final concert of the 2015-2016 season on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 8:00pm in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The concert is free and open to the public. Karel Husa on the campus of Ithaca College The…
By Andrew Psarris Collaboration is one of the greatest gifts of playing music. Eastman’s viola and composition studios have teamed up because of it. Recently the two studios performed a collaborative concert in which composition majors wrote pieces for their peers in the viola department, as a follow-up to a similar successful concert in spring…
By Tahlia Cott The new student organization Eastman Americana is excited to present its special spring semester event, 10 String Symphony. Rachel Baiman and Christian Sedelmyer, two veterans of the Nashville music scene, take the influences of traditional American music and add their own spin. Baiman, a former Illinois state fiddle champion, and Sedelmyer, a…
By John Fatuzzo The Eastman Opera Theatre will present Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro next week at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The production will be sung in Italian with projected English supertitles and a full orchestra. The performances will feature two rotating casts of Eastman School of Music undergraduate and graduate students. Performance dates…
Rochesterians have a rare chance to see one of the greatest American composers, and hear some of his most recent music, this evening when the Eastman School hosts Steve Reich in a concert beginning at 8 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall. Eastman Musica Nova under Brad Lubman will be featured in several recent Reich works: the…
By Andrew Psarris This year the Eastman Opera Theatre will present Mozart’s perennial favorite Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro). (Performance dates and times are listed at the end of this post.) It will be performed by two student casts in alternating performances, with musical direction by Benton Hess and stage direction by…
By John Fatuzzo As an editor and contributor for the Eastman Blog this year, I have enjoyed learning about the success stories of my peers, friends and teachers. Getting the personal account from students who win competitions, alumni who create exciting projects and faculty who prepare masterful performances is truly the highlight of my internship-turned-job…