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.)
Contemporary composer: Christopher Rouse
(Gramophone 09/23/2019)
Indeed, Rouse led a course on the history of rock while teaching at the Eastman School of Music. The influence of rock is at its most overt in such … (Also reported by Washington Post, Washington Classical Review, New York Classical Review, Broadway World)
New York Philharmonic Announces Three New Section Violinists
(The Violin Channel 09/17/2019)
The New York Philharmonic has this week announced the appointment of violinists Dasol Jeong, Andi Zhang and Kyung Ji Min to the ensemble’s violin section.
A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, The Juilliard School and the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Ida Kavafian, Pinchas Zukerman, Patinka Kopec, Oleh Krysa, Leo Wigdorchik, Glenn Dicterow and Lisa Kim, Dasol is former 1st Prize winner at the Oleh Krysa International Violin Competition. …
(City Newspaper 09/18/2019)
For its opening concert on September 29, the Society for Chamber Music in Rochester comes out swinging with one of the great works of the Romantic chamber music repertoire, Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet, which for good measure will feature Michael Wayne, the Eastman School of Music‘s new clarinet professor and Boston Symphony Orchestra clarinetist …
Eastman School of Music‘s 2019-20 concert offerings are as rich and varied as ever, from a steady stream of student and faculty concerts to performances from high-profile guest artists. …
In Studio A with Nicholas Goluses
(Interlochen 09/19/2019)
Nicholas Goluses is professor of guitar at the Eastman School of Music. He is at Interlochen Arts Academy this week teaching master classes and …
Composer Gregory Spears to deliver Walter Harding Lecture at SUNY Geneseo
(The Livingston County News 09/19/2019)
Spears’ lecture, “Thoreau and Music,” is free and open to the public. … Music, and a bachelor’s degree in composition from Eastman School of Music.
Edmonds Center for the Arts presents Kelly Hall-Tompkins in “The Fiddler Expanding Tradition …
(Monroe Monitor 09/18/2019)
Prior to that, she earned a Bachelor of Music degree with honors in violin performance with a minor in French from the Eastman School of Music, studying with Charles Castleman. While at Eastman she won the school’s Performer’s Certificate Competition, several scholarship awards from the New York Philharmonic, and was invited to perform chamber music on the school’s Kilbourn Concert Series with members of the faculty. …
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