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.)
The Cleveland Orchestra Announces Cleveland Native Jessica Sindell As Assistant Principal Flute
(Broadway World 10/29/2018)
Jessica Sindell graduated high school from Western Reserve Academy in Cleveland and received her Bachelors of Music in flute performance from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied under longtime flute professor Bonita Boyd. She was the recipient of consecutive fellowships to participate in the Aspen Music Festival and School during the summers of 2011 through 2013, as well as to the Music Academy of the West in 2014.
10 million in gifts committed to the Eastman School of Music
(Classical 91.5 10/25/2018)
The Eastman School of Music says that two gifts announced this week which total $10 million, will help support faculty and students at that music school in Rochester.
The gifts of $5 million each come from two members of the University of Rochester’s Board of Trustees, Cathy Minehan and Danny Wegman. …
Gateways Music Festival celebrates its 25th
(WXXI News 10/30/2018)
Gateways Music Festival, in association with the Eastman School of Music, is marking its 25th anniversary this week with special events and performances by professional musicians of African descent, and the celebration continues with the full festival in August of 2019. […] (Also reported by Rochester Business Journal)
Five Original Members of the Very First NH Band
(New Horizons NEWS | Fall 2018)
When in 1991, I first saw the Eastman School of Music’s ad in the Rochester newspaper, it literally changed my life. It asked people who might be interested in joining a band to attend a meeting at the Eastman school. […] Now over 27 years later, of those who joined the original Rochester band, only four or five are left. […]
5. The Tibetan Book of the Dead
(Rochester Business Journal 11/01/2018)
On Stage at Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music is “The Tibetan Book of the Dead,” presented by Eastman Opera Theatre. The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a manual that’s traditionally read aloud to the dying and the dead by a spiritual guide or friend. This piece of Ricky Ian Gordon’s most personal work—and it has only been performed twice—came to fruition after the loss of his partner, Jeffrey, to AIDS. Performances tonight, Saturday and Sunday. esm.rochester.edu
(WXXI 11/05/2018)
Renowned American composer Ricky Ian Gordon takes audiences on a deeply personal journey in his opera “The Tibetan Book of the Dead.” The work was inspired by his late partner, Jeffrey, a love Gordon lost to the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. This rarely performed opera being presented by the Eastman Opera Theatre teaches us how to transition from life to death without fear. Ricky Ian Gordon, in residency at Eastman, joins this edition of Need to Know to expand on the opera’s mission and intended impact.
Opera review: ‘The Tibetan Book of the Dead’
(City Newspaper 11/02/2018)
Eastman Opera Theatre’s new production of composer Ricky Ian Gordon’s “The Tibetan Book of the Dead” is thought-provoking, and most of all, curious. […]
Classical trio to play latest Ivory Evenings event Thursday at Waldomore in Clarksburg, WV
(WV News 10/28/2018)
RPS Collective, a recently formed classical trio, will perform a wide range of classical styles from Baroque to ultra-contemporary and will debut a commission by Matt Curlee, faculty composer at the Eastman School of Music.
Laube to give Dordt organ recital Nov. 3
(nwestiowa.com 10/31/2018)
Nathan Laube will perform as part of the Ringerwole Organ Recital Series at … Laube is assistant professor of organ at the Eastman School of Music in addition to being an international consultant in organ studies at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in the United Kingdom.
Rochester-area trombone quartet to perform at Wick Chapel
(Bradford Era 11/02/2018)
At the Harriett B. Wick Chapel at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, a free concert will be held featuring young performers from the famed Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.
The group, known as the Amendous Quartet, is made up of undergraduate students from the Eastman School. […] “This is the first of three concerts the museum will be presenting this year in collaboration with the Eastman School of Music.”
Each of the quartet’s members has performed and competed nationally and internationally from the United States to China. Student groups from the Eastman School are rigorously trained and vetted before they are allowed to represent the school at professional venues.
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