Members of the Red Line Saxophone Quartet are, from left: Brandon Kies, Douglas O’Connor, Gao Qun, and Quinn Lewis. Photo by Gerry Szymanski. # # # For the second time in less than two months, the Red Line Saxophone Quartet has taken home a top honor from a major national chamber music competition. The ensemble…
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra music director Christopher Seaman will receive an honorary degree and Boston Symphony Orchestra managing director Mark Volpe will give the address and receive the Eastman School of Music’s Alumni Achievement Award during the School’s 84th annual commencement ceremony. The ceremony for students receiving their undergraduate and master’s degrees will be held at…
The Eastman New Jazz Ensemble and Jeremy Siskind have each been named in the latest DownBeat Student Music Awards. # # # DownBeat, often described as “the bible of jazz,” has named the Eastman New Jazz Ensemble as the best college big band in the magazine’s 32nd annual music awards issue. The publication also chose…
Members of the Arabesque Winds quintet are, from left: Deidre Huckabay, Elizabeth Spector, Sophia Goluses, Isabel Kim, and Eryn Bauer. Photo by Gerry Szymanski. # # # Arabesque Winds, a woodwind quintet of Eastman School of Music musicians, has added another major award to its resume. The ensemble has won the Coleman-Saunderson Prize for Woodwinds…
Well into its second decade as a string ensemble, the Grammy-winning Ying Quartet is embarking on a journey with a new member. Violin virtuoso Frank Huang, who has established a major international career, will join the quartet this summer. He will also be appointed associate professor of violin and associate professor of chamber music at…
Four young singing and acting hopefuls will be chosen in upcoming auditions to share the stage with Eastman School of Music students for a production of The Secret Garden this fall. The musical, which premiered on Broadway in 1991, is based on a popular 1909 novel of an orphan and her sickly cousin whose own…
A work by Jairo Duarte-López and Michaela Eremiášová will be performed by New York City Opera this weekend. Photo by Gerry Szymanski. # # # Two Eastman School of Music graduate composition students, Michaela Eremiášová and Jairo Duarte-López, will have their work featured in New York City Opera’s acclaimed “VOX: Showcasing American Opera” series. The…
John Celentano, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chamber Music at the Eastman School of Music, died Monday, April 13. He was 96 years old. A violinist, Professor Celentano had a long and notable career as a performing artist, teacher, lecturer, writer, and broadcast commentator. He taught violin and chamber music at the Eastman School for 35…
A program of the finest but seldom-heard French Baroque sacred works will be presented by Voices, Rochester’s professional choral chamber ensemble, at historic St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 26. The performance, part of the “Eastman at St. Michael’s” series of monthly recitals, will precede the Church’s annual Homecoming Mass, at…
Rochester audiences will experience a colorful program of traditional and newly composed musical works for Balinese gamelan as the Eastman School of Music’s Gamelan Lila Muni presents its annual concert. Translated as “orchestra of heavenly sound,” Gamelan Lila Muni is a percussion ensemble of metallophones, gongs, drums, and flutes that presents music and dance from…