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.)
New Sounds from Eastman’s OSSIA
(WXXI News 02/24/2019)
A group of students at the Eastman School of Music wants to expand the range of sounds in your life: they’re the student-run new music ensemble, OSSIA. …
(Rochester City Newspaper 02/20/2019)
When classical superstar Martha Argerich needs a partner for a piano duo, she turns to another virtuoso, Lilya Zilberstein. When you hear her play, with equal shares of dazzling technique and exhilarating style, it’s easy to understand why. Zilberstein has a knack for fluid phrasing and effortless lyricism, while losing none of her characteristic articulation and precision. The resulting sound is equal parts sophisticated and accessible. The Russian-born pianist’s Thursday program at Kilbourn Hall will include some early Beethoven: 24 Variations on “Venni Amore” by Vincenzio Righini and Sonata No. 23, also known as “Appassionata.” Zilberstein will also play Scriabin’s Sonata in F# Minor, No. 3 and Rachmaninoff’s “Six moments musicaux.” …
Dominick Argento, 91, Celebrated American Composer of Lyric Operas and Songs, has Died
(Opera News 02/22/2019)
After receiving bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Peabody, Argento completed his doctorate at the Eastman School of Music. … (Also reported by MinnPost, NPR, York Daily Record/Sunday News)
Craig Harris: A man for all seasons
(Southwest Journal 02/21/2019)
Raised in Rochester, New York, home of Eastman School of Music and the Rochester Philharmonic, Harris sipped from the frothy brew of late ’50s and ’60s musical influences — classical, popular standards, Broadway musicals, jazz and the emerging world of rock. Schooled as a child in classical piano and music theory classes in Eastman School of Music Community Education program, his first appearance at age 5 on Eastman’s Kilbourn Hall stage was in a rhythm class performance. …
So, he moved to Canada to attend the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto, then returned to obtain his graduate degree at Eastman School of Music nine years later. It was there and then that Harris entered the budding musical realm of computer-assisted music and composition. Nothing was the same thereafter. …
Cahill Smith And Heather Smith To Perform Faculty Recital Tuesday
(The Chattanoogan 02/20/2019)
Lee University School of Music will host Dr. Cahill Smith, piano, and Heather Smith, cello, …
Dr. Smith completed his Doctor of Musical Arts from Eastman, where he was the inaugural recipient of the Douglas Lowry Award for excellence in degree recital performance, won the Eastman Concerto Competition, and received honors in chamber music as well as the Prize for Excellence in Teaching. …
Ms. Smith … She is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where she studied with David Ying of the Ying Quartet.
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