An evening of silent film entertainment, part of a collaborative project involving the University of Rochester, its Eastman School of Music, and the George Eastman House, will include a series of short films scored by Eastman School of Music students. Titled “Film Lost and Found: The Experience of Pre- and Silent Cinema,” the collaborative project…
Two ensembles boasting Eastman School of Music alumni and known for their performances of new works will be joined by iconoclastic German composer Helmut Lachenmann for a guest recital at the Eastman School on Friday, March 26. SIGNAL and JACK Quartet are performing a concert spanning 40 years of Lachenmann’s compositions in honor of his…
Events in several locations around the Rochester area will give local audiences more opportunities to attend and enjoy the activities presented during the Eastman School of Music’s sixth annual Women in Music Festival. Recitals featuring musicians from the Eastman School and Nazareth College, guest artists, lectures, and poetry readings will spotlight the many achievements and…
University of Rochester Vice President Paul Burgett will launch a series of three presentations this spring as part of the Eastman School of Music’s “Expanding Our Horizons” guest speaker series. The presentations, which are sponsored by the School’s Diversity Committee, are open to the community and address issues and challenges of diversity in music schools.…
The Ying Quartet’s annual LifeMusic presentation of commissioned works will feature a new work by Richard Danielpour during the next Eastman-Ranlet Series concert on Sunday, Feb. 21. Danielpour is one of the most sought-after contemporary composers and has been commissioned by some of the world’s leading music institutions, including the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia…
Pulitzer Prize winner Shulamit Ran, who has been writing music since she was seven years old, will spend three separate weeks at the Eastman School of Music this semester as Howard Hanson Visiting Professor of Composition. During that time, she will meet with students in composition symposiums, hold private lessons, and attend Eastman School concerts…
Three Eastman School of Music graduates, soprano Renée Fleming, tenor Anthony Dean Griffey, and composer/arranger Bill Cunliffe, won awards in the 52nd annual Grammy Awards competition. Fleming and Griffey, who already had two Grammys apiece, received two more Grammys each, while Cunliffe picked up his first Grammy. Fleming (MM ’83) won in the Best Classical…
The Eastman Youth Jazz Orchestra will be traveling to New York City in February to defend their Best Big Band title in the national Charles Mingus High School Competition and Festival. The orchestra, an ensemble of the Eastman Community Music School, was also selected as one of the finalists in the Combo Category. Directed by…
On Monday, Feb. 1, Eastman School of Music faculty and students will be joined by special guests for the second in a series of chamber music concerts to benefit Rochester’s Foodlink, a non-profit regional food bank that distributes food to soup kitchens, shelters and emergency food pantries, and to non-emergency programs such as group homes,…
Jazz fills Rochester venues year-round and this spring Eastman School of Music will be hosting noted guest artists who’ll give public performances with Eastman musicians. Pianist and composer Michael Weiss, known for his work with such jazz luminaries as Johnny Griffin, Art Farmer, Wynton Marsalis, Charles McPherson, Slide Hampton, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, and others,…