Eastman School of Music senior Ka Chun Gary Ngan will be one of 14 students from the nation’s leading conservatories performing at the Kennedy Center Sunday, Oct. 5, in a concert marking the fifth anniversary of the center’s Conservatory Project. A student of Professor of Violin Charles Castleman, Ngan will join other students selected to…
A work recorded at the Eastman School of Music and performed by an Eastman ensemble has been nominated for a Latin Grammy Award. “Barcelonazo,” which was performed by Musica Nova under conductor Mark Davis Scatterday, received a nomination for best classical contemporary composition in the 9th annual Latin Grammy Awards. The engineer on the recording,…
As a child, violinist David Oistrakh survived the upheavals and destruction of World War I and the Russian Revolution. During World War II, he performed for factory workers and for Russian soldiers on the front lines. Throughout the Cold War, he undertook a grueling performance and conducting schedule at home and abroad, his artistry exploited…
Download Hi Resolution Images National Press Kit (Opens as PDF) The Craighead-Saunders Organ, a breathtaking 30,000-pound instrument that is the only one of its kind in the United States, will make its highly anticipated public debut during a series of concerts over five days in October. The result of an eight-year research and construction project…
Two legendary performers of traditional Shona music of Zimbabwe launch this season’s World Music Series at the Eastman School of Music. Cosmas Magaya and Beauler Dyoko, who perform together as the “Mbira Masters of Zimbabwe,” will be joined by African Alchemies, an ensemble that presents traditional and new African music, in concert at 8 p.m.…
A concert of works by the first woman to receive a master’s degree in composition from a Chinese institution, and who is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, will cap a two-day event on music and globalization at the Eastman School of Music. The event, at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20,…
Eastman School of Music musicians—faculty, students, and alumni—will be prominent at this year’s Chihuahua International Festival: Associate professor Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez is the festival’s composer-in-residence; the Eastman BroadBand Ensemble is the resident ensemble for the festival’s contemporary music component; guitarist Dieter Hennings and the woodwind quintet Arabesque Winds will each present a recital; and the JACK…
Key leaders from 21 of the country’s largest orchestras have been invited to come to Eastman School of Music on Monday, Sept. 8, to discuss the impact of Polyphonic.org, a website for professional orchestra musicians and aspiring students. Launched more than two years ago by Eastman’s Institute for Music Leadership, the site offers news and…
This fall, three musicians have joined Eastman School of Music’s incoming freshman class as this year’s recipients of the Rochester International Jazz Festival (RIJF)/Eastman School of Music scholarship. Adrian DiMatteo and Evan Henry of Rochester and Daniel Ziemann of Amherst are the latest students to earn the awards sponsored by RIJF producers John Nugent and…
The Eastman School of Music has announced the following faculty appointments: Michael Burritt, Professor of Percussion. Having performed on four continents and nearly 40 states, Michael Burritt is one of the world’s leading percussion soloists. He is in frequent demand performing concert tours and master classes throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Canada.…