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.)
History Is in the Making at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Vanity Fair 12/13/2018)
Julia Bullock, one of opera’s fastest-rising stars, is using her artistic platform for social activism to glorious effect. […]
The soprano, who trained at Eastman School of Music and Bard College’s graduate vocal-arts program, is noteworthy in her field for a number of …
Eastman alumni, faculty receive Grammy nominations
(Monroe County Post 12/13/2018)
Several graduates and a faculty member of the Eastman School of Music recently received nominations in the 61st Grammy Awards by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Inc.
These nominations include best contemporary instrumental album: “Steve Gadd Band,” Steve Gadd Band; best jazz vocal album: “The Subject Tonight is Love” with Gary Versace; best large jazz ensemble album: “All Can Work,” John Hollenbeck; best musical theater album: “Carousel” featuring Renee Fleming; producer of the year classical: Blanton Alspaugh and David Frost; best opera recording: “Doctor Atomic” featuring Julia Bullock, and “Der Rosenkavalier” with Fleming and Erin Morley; best classical solo vocal album: “Winterreise” with Randall Scarlata and “Songs of Orpheus” with Karim Sulayman; and best contemporary classical composition: “Vespers for Violin” with Olivia De Prato.
Eastman alumni are included in orchestras that played on nominated albums, including the Pittsburgh, Seattle, Boston and San Francisco symphonies, and the Santa Fe and Metropolitan Opera orchestras. D.J. Sparr played a guitar concerto on “Spiritualist,” which is up for best classical compendium.
Feels so good: Jeff Tyzik conducts Florida Orchestra holiday concerts this week
(St Pete Catalyst 12/10/2018)
Armed with a satchel full of talent and ambition, and a Master’s from the Eastman School of Music, Jeff Tyzik launched a career in the mid ‘70s that would take him from one musical pinnacle to another. […]
You’ll hear the best musicians, over and over, talk about the inherent value of collaboration. Tyzik got a lesson in keeping his ears open from Mangione, under whom he’d studied at the Eastman School in the late 1960s and early ‘70s. …
Grammy Winner Credits Co-Op High
(New Haven Independent 12/11/2018)
Hot off the heels of winning a Latin Grammy for working with salsa star Victor Manuelle — and being nominated in four different categories — musician and producer Marcos Sánchez reflected back on his time growing up in New Haven, and going to Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School. … classes for Sánchez at Neighborhood Music School, which led him to Litchfield Jazz Camp and a summer conservatory at Eastman School of Music.
Musicians to perform at house concert
(Estevan Mercury 12/13/2018)
The next performance in the local house concert series will feature a talented young musician from southeast Saskatchewan. McKenzie Warriner and accompanist Danielle Guina […]
Warriner, a soprano, is passionate about bringing text to life through music, whether it’s Handel or a new composition. Though she is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., …
(Elmore Magazine 12/15/2018)
Brindica | Album Reviews
A little out of left field, we were re-introduced to the vibraphone—the pedal steel of jazz—by a master. A former trumpeter in Chuck Mangione’s Jazz Ensemble and the George Shearing Quintet, Ted Piltzecker was really a closet vibraphonist, practicing first in his dorm room at the Eastman School of Music, then honing his skills during his tenure with Mangione. After getting off one of the Shearing tours, Piltzecker said, “I put the trumpet in the case, and it was out of the house the next day. I never touched it again.” …
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