Two concerts of electroacoustic performances, featuring works by leading composers in the genre, will be presented by the Eastman Computer Music Center at the Eastman School of Music. Tristan Murail is an award-winning French composer associated with the “spectral” technique of composition, which uses the fundamental properties of sound as a basis for harmony, as…
From composer to performer to producer, the different roles women occupy in the music field will be celebrated during an annual festival at the Eastman School of Music. The 2011 Women in Music Festival includes a program of silent short films with live original music, a preview of a one-act musical by a local composing-playwriting…
Organ and orchestra performances by Eastman School of Music graduate students will be presented at Sacred Heart Cathedral during “A Concert of Concertos” at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 1. Four soloists will be joined by the Eastman Graduate Chamber Orchestra under Professor Neil Varon and assistant conductors Conner Gray Covington and Christopher Unger. The concert…
The original American genre of ragtime gets the spotlight from the Ying Quartet when the ensemble presents its annual LifeMusic concert as part of the Eastman-Ranlet Series on Sunday, Feb. 27, at 3 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall. The recital will feature Three Rags for String Quartet by pianist and composer John Novacek, who’s embraced the…
A new work by award-winning jazz artist Bob Brookmeyer will headline an upcoming concert by the Eastman School of Music’s New Jazz Ensemble. Rochester audiences will be treated to the first public performance of Brookmeyer’s “Christmas Tree” at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, in Kilbourn Hall. The work was commissioned by the NDR Big Band…
Grammy-winning ensemble eighth blackbird, known for its energetic performances making new music accessible to wide audiences, will appear in the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Concert Series on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 8 p.m. The program features a new work titled 5 Memos by Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez, Associate Professor of Composition at the Eastman School of…
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an extraordinary musician, perhaps history’s greatest composer. He should have amassed a fortune. Instead, he died penniless. Many musicians throughout history have suffered a similar fate, unable to turn their dedication and talent into a successful career. A new book by Ramon Ricker, a senior administrator at the University of Rochester’s…
The Eastman School of Music’s Eastman Chamber Jazz will perform arrangements by pianist, composer, and bandleader Gil Evans that have not been heard in more than five decades on Thursday, Feb. 17, at 8 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall. The program features Evans’s arrangements from the Claude Thornhill Orchestra that have not been performed in 50-plus…
A film and music festival program in Berlin put the spotlight on composers and musicians from the Eastman School of Music. “Old Films and New Music,” presented by the Kurt Weill Festival, featured little-known short films from the 1920s and 1930s by Bauhaus master and avant-garde artist László Moholy-Nagy. The music accompanying the works was…
Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, will present a paper on “Diversity Is, Diversity Ain’t: Multiculturalism and Teaching in a Post-Disciplinary Music Academy” at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3, in Room 404 of the Sibley Music Library at the Eastman School of Music. The event, which is sponsored by…