ROCHESTER, NY – Musica Nova, the Eastman School of Music’s new music ensemble, will present its final concert of the season at 8 p.m., Thursday, April 27, in Kilbourn Hall (26 Gibbs St.). The free concert features challenging works by Ligeti, Glass, and Reich – three prolific living composers, all of whom are innovators in…
ROCHESTER, NY – It’s no James Bond movie, but it easily could be called "From Russia, with love": A remarkable 13-year-old pianist, originally from Russia, with a love of American jazz is the rising star chosen to be showcased in concert by legendary jazz pianist Marian McPartland and the Eastman School of Music. The concert…
ROCHESTER, NY – Internationally known jazz artist Toots Thielemans — described by Quincy Jones as "one of the greatest musicians of our time" — comes to the Eastman School of Music for a concert April 22. Thielemans will perform with the Eastman Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Fred Sturm and the New Jazz Ensemble conducted…
ROCHESTER, NY – The intriguing music of an ancient Balinese gamelan will be performed in this season’s final concert of the Eastman School of Music’s World Music Series. The concert, featuring Eastman’s own gamelan ensemble "Lila Muni" ("Beautiful Sound"), will be at 8 p.m., Tuesday, April 4, in Kilbourn Hall (26 Gibbs St.). It is…
ROCHESTER, NY – The Eastman Opera Theatre will bring Mozart’s final comic opera, the entertaining Cosí fan tutte, to the Eastman Theatre stage this spring. Performances will be at 8 p.m., Thursday-Saturday, March 30-April 1, and at 2 p.m., Sunday, April 2. Best described as a morality play disguised as a bedroom farce, Cosí fan…
ROCHESTER, NY – Women take center stage this month in a community concert celebrating both Music in Our Schools Month and Women’s History Month. The newly formed Women’s Chorale at the Eastman School of Music has invited four local middle school and high school women’s choirs to join them for a benefit concert to take…
ROCHESTER, NY – March 21 becomes "Music-for-All Day" this year as string quartets, woodwind trios, brass quintets and other assorted chamber ensembles from the Eastman School of Music perform in city, private and suburban schools around the area. This marks the first time that a single day has been set aside for the classroom performances,…
ROCHESTER, NY – Teo Macero, acclaimed producer, arranger, saxophonist, and award-winning composer, will be in residence for five days at the Eastman School of Music, beginning March 18. During his residency, titled "The Producer’s Art," Macero will be in studio with Eastman jazz students to produce their forthcoming millennial CD, and present a concert at…
ROCHESTER, NY – With the creation of a chamber music department, the Eastman School of Music is renewing its longstanding commitment to a historically important form of music that holds significant potential for the future. Creation of the chamber music department builds on the "Eastman Initiatives" developed by the School over the past several years…
ROCHESTER, NY – The three winners of the Eastman School of Music’s annual Concerto Competition, held in January, will be showcased in a free concert with the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra at 8 p.m., Friday, March 3, in the Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.). David Gilbert will guest conduct. Pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout, an undergraduate from…