Here are some select recent clippings 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.)
Igor Lipinski to Bring Magic to the Keyboard for College of Charleston Piano Series
(Moultrie News 02/04/2018)
He earned his Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance and Musical Arts and Master of Music in Piano Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester where he studied piano under the tutelage of Douglas Humpherys. As a teaching assistant of Vincent Lenti and Tony Caramia, he received Eastman’s Teaching Assistant Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
Alexander native earns prestigious award in Houston
(The Daily News Online 02/02/2018)
Add another award for Alexander native and renowned vocalist Emily Helenbrook. … Helenbrook, 23, was the winner of the Richard E. McGinty Director Emeritus Award at the Third Annual Saengerbund Awards Competition in Houston Jan. 20. … She is a 2016 graduate of Eastman School of Music.
Friends of Eastman Opera announces 17th annual vocal competition
(Monroe County Post 01/31/2018)
Friends of Eastman Opera announces 17th annual vocal competition …. Eight Eastman School of Music voice and opera students will compete in the Friends of Eastman Opera Voice Competition at 8 p.m. on Feb. 9 in Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St., Rochester. Singers will compete for cash prizes and …
(Syracuse.com 02/04/2018)
Program notes explain that Honn, a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and a founding member of the Eclectet Wind Quintet, will blend elements from several editions of the concerto and add much of her own interpretation in the cadenzas, virtuoso flourishes in solo passages within a work.
No-Nonsense Drumming: Preview Cameron Leach’s Electroacoustic Percussion Concert ‘ELISION’
(WOSU Public Media 02/02/2018)
… vibraphones, bongos, cymbals, gongs — will have Leach hopping from one instrument to another in vivacious displays of what he describes as “percussive athleticism.” A Columbus native and Capital University alum, Leach is currently a graduate student at the prestigious Eastman School of Music.
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