Here are some select clippings from the past week showing the variety of hits/mentions identifying musicians and scholars as Eastman School of Music alumni, faculty or students. Note: Some links may have expired.)
Marking 100 years of national parks
(The Blade © 07/03/2016)
As part of nearly $2 million in grants to the park centennial from the National Endowment for the Arts, Music in the American Wild (musicintheamericanwild.com), a collection of composers and musicians from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, will tour nationally, performing music inspired by the national parks. August dates include the San Juan Island National Historical Park, North Cascades National Park and Olympic National Park, all in Washington state. (Also reported by Houston Chronicle)
Music Mondays – Bach and Beyond – Aaron James, organ
(blogTO, 07/11/16)
Recent Doctor of Musical Arts graduate from the Eastman School of Music, Rochester N.Y., and winner of the 2012 National Organ Playing Competition of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, Aaron returns to his native Toronto to perform a program with a mixture of Baroque and modern music, including works by Bach, Böhm, Jan Welmers’s minimalist Laudate Dominum and Henry Cowell’s Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 14.
(Sleaford Today, 07/10/16)
Trio Alexander will be back on Lincolnshire soil at the … The group includes harpist Rosanna Moore, … also comprises American musicians Adam Paul Cordle on viola and Caroline Sonett on flute.
All three are studying for their doctoral degrees at the Eastman School of Music in the USA. Between them, they have performed at prestigious venues …
Musical ‘Austen’s Pride’ a tale of perseverance
(Democrat and Chronicle, 07/09/16)
Playwright/composers Lindsay Warren Baker and Amanda Jacobs have been collaborating together for so long, they can sometimes read each other’s minds — and finish each other’s sentences.
Baker, a Penfield native now living in Lima, Livingston County, is an acting instructor and dramatic coach at the Eastman School of Music. She is also …
The two started writing it in 2000, while Baker was working in the opera department of the Eastman School of Music. Steven Daigle, professor of opera and head of the Eastman Opera Theatre program, urged the two to finish the project, offering them, as a carrot, the opportunity to do it as an opera workshop.
Clemens Center organist honored
(Star-Gazette, 07/08/16)
David Peckham of Horseheads, resident organist at the Clemens Center in Elmira since 1977, was named Theatre Organist of the Year Thursday at the American Theatre Organ Society convention in Cleveland.
Peckham studied music at the Eastman School of Music. He works at his family’s pipe organ repair shop, L.A. Peckham and Son Pipe Organ Service.
Goal of concerts is to restore Antioch College grand piano
(Yellow Springs News, 07/07/16)
Pianist Sam Reich stands in front of the Antioch College’s Foundry Theater, which houses the college’s Steinway concert grand piano. Reich hopes to fund the restoration of the piano to peak form through the proceeds of the Yellow Springs Piano Fest, a series of performances he envisions over the next year. … Reich, who has a master’s in piano performance from the Eastman School of Music, is well known in town for hosting recitals in which he gives the proceeds to local organizations and nonprofits.
(Brainerd Dispatch, 07/07/16)
Scott Lykins and John Ward will perform in the bandstand …
John Taylor Ward’s performances have been praised by the New York Times for their “impressive clarity and color” and “velvety suaveness” and by the Washington Post for “finely calibrated precision and heart-rending expressivity.” … Originally from Boone, N.C., he is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, …
Scott Lykins’ career uniquely blends artistic performance as a cellist and pianist with administrative creativity as founding artistic and executive director of the Lakes Area Music Festival in his native Brainerd. … He has received both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in cello performance from the Eastman School of Music, studying with Steven Doane and Alan Harris, respectively. …
Arts Academy offers summer lessons
(Finger Lakes Times, 07/06/16)
The Arts Academy is expanding its strings program. Janneke Hoogland, in her second year at SPCAA, teaches private cello lessons in a satellite location at the First Congregational Church on Main Street in Canandaigua. Hoogland received her bachelor’s degree in music from San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a master’s of music degree in cello performance from Eastman School of Music. She performs with the Rochester Chamber Orchestra and the Genesee String Quartet. In lieu of purchasing a new cello, it is possible to rent a student-level cello for lessons, practice, and performances. For more information, contact Janneke (jannekecello@ yahoo.com).
Writers Theatre Extends Stephen Sondheim’s COMPANY
(Broadway World, 07/06/16)
Company features original orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick, Orchestral Reductions by Ian Weinberger, music direction by Tom Vendafreddo and choreography by …
In 2014, Tom became the founding artistic director of the Chicago Artists Chorale. Tom holds a B.M. from Eastman School of Music and a M.F.A. from …
Ann Patchett, Gloria Steinem in Talking Volumes lineup
(MinnPost 07/06/16)
André Watts out, Zhang Zuo in at Sommerfest
Born in 1988 in Shenzhen in China’s Guangdong Province, Zou (known as Zee Zee) began her musical training in Germany at age five, studied piano at the Shenzhen Arts School, then continued at the Eastman School and Juilliard. Not yet 30, she has already won several prizes and performed with many of the world’s great orchestras and conductors.
Thursday Night Jazz at Reverie: Phil Hey Quartet, Julian Manzara Quartet on July 7
(Jazz Police 07/05/16)
Vibes master Dave Hagedorn directs the award-winning jazz bands and percussion ensemble at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN. With degrees from the University of Minnesota, New England Conservatory and Eastman School of Music, and studies with George Russell,
From the community: July 31: UPC Concert Series presents jazz by the Jon Rarick Nonet
(Chicago Tribune 07/01/16)
The Jon Rarick Nonet will perform original jazz compositions and arrangements of bebop tunes and standards at … Rarick, a Grayslake resident, is a jazz composition graduate student and trumpet player at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester in New York.
Rarick was awarded in Downbeat Magazine’s 37th Annual Student Music Awards for an original composition and has written music for the Eastman New Jazz Ensemble, the Eastman Studio Orchestra and the Elmhurst College Jazz Band.
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