ROCHESTER, NY — As the Eastman School of Music prepares for its third annual Eastman-Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI) Festival, so does an international contingent of influential organ builders, prominent organ scholars and researchers, and important Lithuanian dignitaries. A major highlight of this year’s festival, October 21-24, is the first ever global cultural heritage project of…
ROCHESTER, NY — It’s a homecoming unlike any other for music legend Mitch Miller. On Thursday, September 9, the Rochester native and recipient of a 2000 Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement will return to his alma mater, the Eastman School of Music, for a special ceremony in his honor. During it, Eastman School Director James…
ROCHESTER, NY — When Eastman School of Music Dean James Undercofler asked acclaimed composer and alumnus Dominick Argento (PhD ’58) to write a piece for the October 2004 centennial celebration of the School’s famed Sibley Music Library, it was clearly a match made in heaven. Considered America’s pre-eminent composer of lyric opera, the Pulitzer- and…
ROCHESTER, NY — An outstanding performance of Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 1 made Natalia Kazaryan, a 17-year-old originally from the Republic of Georgia, the first-place winner last night in the Eastman School of Music’s Eighth Annual Young Artists International Piano Competition. As top winner of the weeklong competition for talented 14- to 18-year-old pianists, Kazaryan receives…
ROCHESTER, NY — Obtaining tickets to concerts and events presented by the Eastman School of Music just got easier and more convenient. Beginning August 16, tickets for all Eastman School performances will be sold through the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Box Office, located at 108 East Avenue — just around the corner from the School. As…
ROCHESTER, NY — Long before the new fast ferry started bringing Canadians to Rochester, Canada’s — and the world’s — best known brass quintet, the Canadian Brass, has been bringing their acclaimed music to our city. So for the third consecutive summer, the men who “put brass music on the map” will be in Rochester…
ROCHESTER, NY — Eastman Theatre temporarily becomes a construction zone today, as the Eastman School of Music’s $5 million dollar renovation to its Theatre’s stage begins in earnest at 60 Gibbs Street. The Theatre will be closed to the public throughout the remainder of the summer and into the early fall, with a grand reopening…
Rochester, NY — The Eastman School of Music announces the appointment of eight distinguished performers and scholars to its 2004-05 faculty, effective July 1, 2004: Edward (Ted) Christopher will be filling a new position as assistant professor of opera, working under the guidance of Benton Hess and Steven Daigle. As a singer, he has appeared…
ROCHESTER, NY — The Eastman School of Music heats up this summer with six weeks of outstanding music. The School will present more than 50 concerts and performances as part of its annual Summer Session (June 28-August 6). This year’s featured performers include members of the Eastman Community Music School faculty, Eastman’s collegiate faculty, special…
ROCHESTER, NY — Pursuing an avid interest in a particular musical niche has resulted in nationally acclaimed Fulbright Awards for two Eastman students fresh from graduation. Oboist Bethany Slater and violinist Will Knuth are winners of the 2004 Fulbright Study Grants, which cover tuition and expenses for a full academic year of study — including…