ROCHESTER, NY — The stage of the Eastman School of Music’s Eastman Theatre is about to get a dramatic “facelift” in the first phase of an historically-sensitive renovation to the magnificent theatre in downtown Rochester. The renovation, based on a design by the Rochester architectural firm of Macon Chaintreuil Jensen & Stark, will result in…
ROCHESTER, NY — The new year has proven to be a time of high achievement for four talented Eastman School of Music students who recently excelled in major competitions. Pianist Amy Sze, a first-year doctoral student at Eastman, won the Eastern Division of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA)-Steinway Collegiate Artist Piano Competition held in…
ROCHESTER, NY — The Beijing Viola Ensemble from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China, will pay a special visit to the Eastman School of Music on February 18-19, as part of a cultural tour to America. The group — featuring 15 Chinese national student violists — will present a special concert from noon-1p.m.,…
Rochester, NY — In January, when most university students will be preparing to head back to school, Eastman School of Music organ students will be packing their bags — and their music — to fly to Göteborg, Sweden for an opportunity of a lifetime. From January 6 – 13, 2003, 31 of the Eastman School’s…
ROCHESTER, NY — It’s a rare occurrence, in any city: The chance to hear the complete Bartók String Quartets — there are six of them — in succession in one single concert. Yet that’s exactly what’s in store for chamber music lovers as six talented student quartets from the Eastman School of Music perform the…
ROCHESTER, NY — The University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music has received a three-year, $1,000,000 grant under the Talented Students in the Arts Initiative, a collaboration of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Surdna Foundation that supports performing arts programs and endowments of leading national arts training institutions. The grant benefits Eastman Pathways…
ROCHESTER, NY — Friday lunch hours at Midtown Plaza are about to get jazzed up a bit, courtesy of the Eastman School of Music jazz department. Beginning in December, and continuing through May 2003, jazz students from the School will perform in Midtown Plaza’s main plaza area from 12:30-1:30 p.m. on the first and third…
ROCHESTER, NY — The award-winning Eastman Jazz Ensemble presents its much anticipated first concert of the season under its new director, Bill Dobbins, at 8 p.m., Thursday, December 5, in Kilbourn Hall (26 Gibbs St.). Dobbins — an acclaimed jazz conductor, composer, arranger, and performer who taught at Eastman from 1973-1994 — returned to the…
Rochester, NY — Achilles may have been one of the greatest warriors in Greek mythology, but for tenor Robert Swensen, the character is one of great fortune. The internationally acclaimed award-winning singer and associate professor of voice at the Eastman School of Music makes his La Scala debut next month in Milan singing the leading…
ROCHESTER, NY — It will be an anything-but-ordinary Thanksgiving for Eastman School of Music student John Richards. Instead of enjoying turkey and the trimmings of the all-American holiday at home (in Salt Lake City), the 22-year-old violist will be half-a-world-away, east of Turkey — in Armenia, a small country that was part of the former…