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.)
SF Music Day Incubates Fresh Artistry and Ideas
(San Francisco Classical Voice 09/28/2019)
The event’s eclecticism reflects the breadth of the affiliated-artist and musical-grant programs at InterMusic SF, which in 2017 rebranded from its original moniker as the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music and hired Combs (Cory), who fit the change. He’d served SFJAZZ as director of education and had performed as a jazz bassist, but had studied the classics with his musical family in Wichita, Kansas, and at the Eastman School of Music. “I grew up playing music that could be called ‘chamber jazz,’” he recounts, “like Miles Davis’s Birth of the Cool, and the Modern Jazz Quartet.”
Guest artists to give recital at Fall String Festival
(Evening Observer 09/26/2019)
The annual Fall String Festival will feature two guest artists, violinist Sibbi Bernhardsson and violist Masumi Per Rostad, formerly of the internationally renowned Pacifica Quartet, for a master class and public recital at the …
Mr. Rostad, associate professor of viola at Eastman School of Music, has been praised for his rich and expressive tone, energy and commanding presence, and described by critics as an “electrifying, poetic and sensitive musician.” …
(City Newspaper 09/18/2019)
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. The “Eastman Presents” season, comprising mostly visiting musicians, includes the Kodak Hall Series of headlining acts. As always, there are also the stylistically diverse Kilbourn Concert Series, the Eastman-Ranlet Series dedicated to string quartets, the virtuosic Eastman Piano Series, and the evocative Barbara B. Smith World Music Series. If you had to choose just concert from each of these four series, here are our recommendations.
(Rochester Business Journal 09/30/2019)
Daniil Trifonov and Sergei Babayan will perform as part of the Eastman Piano Series next week. Trifonov, a Grammy Award winner, is Musical …
Classical review: SCMR with Michael Wayne
(City Newspaper 09/30/2019)
Wayne, the new associate professor of clarinet at Eastman School of Music, came to Rochester from the Boston Symphony Orchestra. If he wanted to …
Nashville Symphony Composer Lab Showcases Five Unique Voices Of New Music
(WPLN 09/25/2019)
SiHyun Uhm is currently still a student at the Eastman School of Music. Her piece “Ladybug in the Room” is based on a cold evening in her dorm room. She portrayed her futile attempts at containing a stray ladybug in order to keep it warm with running musical lines and a slamming moment of capture at the end of the work. …
Leah reviews ‘The Memory Palace Live’
(City Newspaper 09/20/2019)
A brass quintet from the Eastman School of Music accompanies for a little while onstage, and the rest of DiMeo’s eloquent mood-setting music is …
UR schools offering combined master’s degree
(Monroe County Post 09/24/2019)
The Eastman School of Music and Simon Business School at the University of Rochester are offering a Master of Arts in music leadership combined …
Violist Finds His Home at Eastman School of Music
(Baltimore School for the Arts 09/24/2019)
Jaffe Chase ’19 overcame numerous challenges on his pathway to college. Through hard work and determination, he received multiple college scholarship offers before deciding to continue his studies at the Eastman School of Music.
Jafrè Chase Accepts Full-Tuition Scholarship
(The Peabody Post 09/27/2019)
Former violist with Peabody Preparatory’s Peabody Youth Orchestra Jafrè Chase will go to Eastman School of Music with a full-tuition scholarship this …
Violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins to perform at Edmonds Center for Arts Oct. 12
(MLT News 09/27/2019)
Prior to that, Hall-Tompkins 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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