Roland Vazquez, whose innovative jazz-fusion compositions and concerts have earned praise for three decades, will coach and rehearse ensembles and perform with students as part of his residency at the Eastman School of Music this month. Eastman Chamber Jazz will present a concert of all-Vazquez works on Monday, Feb. 11, and Vazquez will join the…
Local audiences have another opportunity to enjoy the Ying Quartet in performance this season when the Eastman School of Music’s string quartet-in-residence appears at Kilbourn Hall at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 17. The recital will feature new works from composers Sebastian Currier and Lowell Liebermann which were commissioned by the Ying Quartet for its…
Ensemble East will bring the rich and unique sounds of Japanese music to Kilbourn Hall when the group performs at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, as part of the Eastman School of Music’s World Music Series. Performing traditional and modern music, Ensemble East combines the haunting sound of the shakuhachi (vertical bamboo flute) with the…
Renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Yehudi Wyner is this year’s Howard Hanson Visiting Professor of Composition at the Eastman School of Music and will be at the School from Feb. 12 to March 7. During his residency, Wyner will present seminars and will meet with eight students each week in composition tutorials. He will return to…
Elinor Freer and David Ying have received a Special Recognition Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and Chamber Music America as artistic directors of the Skaneateles Chamber Music Festival. The festival was cited in the CMA/ASCAP Adventurous Programming Awards competition, which provides special recognition to ensembles, festivals, and presenters that prominently…
One of the world’s most recorded and honored living composers of orchestra music, Nancy Van de Vate, will be in-residence at the Eastman School of Music for the 2008 Women in Music Festival and will be present for the premiere of “A Long Road Travelled: Suite for Viola and String Quartet.” Violist John Graham and…
The Tokyo String Quartet will present an all-Beethoven program at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, in the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall as part of the annual Eastman-Ranlet Series of string quartet performances. Regarded as one of the supreme chamber ensembles of the world, the Tokyo String Quartet has released more than 40 landmark…
Eastman School of Music faculty are renowned soloists and chamber musicians who fill concert halls around the world. Their local recitals give music lovers the opportunity to catch these internationally lauded artists during their busy schedules. The Eastman Faculty Artist Series continues this spring. Tickets for the Eastman Faculty Artist Series are available at the…
The Eastman School of Music’s organ department and Pegasus Early Music, a Rochester arts organization that presents an early music concert series, are collaborating on a concert on the Italian Baroque Organ in the Memorial Art Gallery. “Italians in the Fountain Court” will feature two performances of a program of Italianate chamber music, at 7:30…
Preparations for the renovation of the Eastman Theatre and construction of a new addition to the Eastman School of Music are progressing, with construction scheduled to occur between July 2008 through December 2009. While the construction of the new addition will occur throughout the entire 18-month construction period, the renovation of the Eastman Theatre will…