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.)
RTHK Radio 4’s ‘Christmas Concert in the Park’
(Asia Radio Today 1/03/2017)
And for the thirteenth year in a row, Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus was also heard featuring the young talented percussionist, Elise Liu, one of RTHK Radio 4’s Young Music Makers, as the soloist this year. Elise is a percussion performance major student at the prestigious Eastman School of Music, …
Canadian Opera Company Welcomes Five Student Musicians To 2018 COC Orchestra Academy
(Broadway World 1/05/2018)
A student at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, violinist Kimberly Durflinger is working towards the completion of a master’s degree in violin performance. In 2016, she graduated from the Eastman School of Music with a bachelor’s degree in violin performance and a minor in French.
Two renowned quartets to share stage at Fanny Bay Hall
(Comox Valley Record 1/05/2017)
As winners of the 1988 Cleveland String Quartet Competition, the LSQ had the opportunity to study for two years with the Cleveland Quartet at the Eastman School of Music, in Rochester, New York. In 1991, the four women became artists-in-residence at the University of Victoria’s School of Music, …
Spotlight on the UBC Symphony’s Jonathan Girard
(Vancouver Sun 1/04/2018)
To judge from what’s become the new normal, 2018 should be quite the year for conductor Jonathan Girard and the UBC Symphony Orchestra. Girard, who has a doctorate from Rochester’s famed Eastman School of Music, came to …
Are these America’s top 20 college orchestras?
(Slipped Disc 1/07/2018)
Shalom Rackovsky says: The Eastman School has two orchestras. The Eastman School Symphony Orchestra is the freshman/sophomore orchestra, and is very excellent. The Eastman Philarmonia is the junior/senior orchestra, and is spectacular. Neil Varon, the Professor of Conducting, is a terrific mentor, who achieves great results using kindness and reason, rather than fear and loathing. He follows in the footsteps of the late, lamented Mendi Rodan, who was the interim Professor of Conducting at ESM, and one of the nicest people I’ve ever seen on the podium. [He regularly addressed his 18-year-old students, fresh from high school, as “my dear colleagues”, and you could tell he meant it.]
Naumburg Trio to perform in Ramsey Concert Hall
(UGA Today 1/08/2018)
Before joining the Houston Symphony as concertmaster in 2010, Huang (Frank) held the position of first violinist of the Grammy Award–winning Ying Quartet and was a faculty member at the Eastman School of Music. He joined the faculty of the Juilliard School in 2017. Requiro won first prize in both the …
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