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.)
Ed Dixon To Lead One Night Only Concert Of DANCE A LITTLE CLOSER At Green Room 42
(Broadway World 02/23/2018)
The acclaimed Second Act Series, which has presented an array of lesser-known musicals in concert, will present the short-lived Charles Strouse tuner Dance A Little Closer this spring at New York’s Green Room 42. … Best known for his Tony Award-winning score for Annie, there may be no other living composer whose work is as integrated into the popular culture. … A graduate of The Eastman School of Music, Charles studied composition with Aaron Copland, and Nadia Boulanger. Like most composers, he found himself playing in bar rooms and strip-clubs (a particular boon for one who was to write the music for the film The Night They Raided Minsky’s). Having …
Jeffrey LaDeur Celebrates Debussy’s Centennial At Carnegie Hall
(Broadway World 02/21/2018)
As soloist with orchestra, Jeffrey made an auspicious debut with the Eastman Philharmonia performing César Franck’s Variations Symphoniques during his first semester of study at the Eastman School of Music. … Jeffrey completed his undergraduate education at the Eastman School of Music, studying with Douglas Humpherys and earned a Master’s Degree in chamber music from …
Rochester Music Hall of Fame 2018 inductees announced
(WXXI News 02/22/2018)
They are: drummer Steve Gadd, one of the most in-demand drummers ever, bassist Tony Levin, who has been part of Peter Gabriel’s group for forty years, composer and former DJ Ferdinand Jay Smith, who has written many familiar themes, sacred steel group The Campbell Brothers, and percussionist and long-time Eastman School of Music Faculty member John Beck. … (Also reported by City Newspaper, Democrat & Chronicle, Rochester Business Journal, Spectrum News)
Backstage Pass with Eastman Performer’s Certificate Students
(Classical 91.5 02/21/2018)
The highest honor a student at the Eastman School of Music can earn is the Performer’s Certificate. So what is that, and how does one get it? On the next Backstage Pass, Julia Figueras introduces you to three recipients of this honor: harpist Anna Dunlap, violinist Willa Finck, and cellist Brandon Xu. Also joining them will be Nicholas Goluses, the co-chair of the String Department. It’s all things stringed on Backstage Pass, …
Victoria Symphony to honor Black History Month
(Victoria Advocate 02/21/2018)
Throughout her performance experience, Adrienne Danrich said hearing a person’s voice soar effortlessly over an orchestra of 30 musicians is one of the most rewarding experiences for concertgoers. …
The concert presentation of Gershwin’s opera “Porgy and Bess” will feature soloists Danrich, soprano; … Danrich, who is an alumna of the Eastman School of Music and has performed “Porgy and Bess” with the San Francisco Symphony, said …
Eastman School flutist wins Detroit Symphony Fellowship
(Classical 91.5 02/21/2018)
Eastman School of Music: Flutist Adam Sadberry, a senior from the studio of Bonnie Boyd and an Eastman Community Music School (ECMS) instructor, won the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s African-American Fellowship. Adam will be a member of the DSO flute section for the next two years. The DSO …
Keuka concert to feature Eastman faculty
(Finger Lakes Times 02/22/2018)
Mark Kellogg and Priscilla Yuen … Kellogg (trombone) and Yuen (pianist), both faculty members at Eastman School of Music, will perform a program featuring several selections including “Suite for Unaccompanied Trombone” by Kellogg.
Yuen serves on the piano faculties of the Eastman School of Music and … Yuen has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri and a master’s degree from the Eastman School of Music. As a graduate student, she was awarded first prize for the Jessie Kneisel Competition and earned the Barbara M.H. Koeng Award for her work with vocal accompanying.
An associate professor at the Eastman School of Music, Kellogg is also on the faculty of Eastman’s Jazz and Contemporary Media Department. He also serves as co-director of the Eastman Trombone Choir and is the director of Eastman To Go, the school’s community engagement program. … A frequent guest with the Eastman Wind Ensemble, … His jazz recording with Eastman School of Music colleague pianist Tony Caramia, “Upstate Standards,” celebrates the music of upstate New York composers Harold Arlen, Alec Wilder, and Jimmy Van Heusen. (Also reported by <Olean Times Herald)
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