Here are some select recent clippings 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.)
Sean Connors, Bob Ludwig, et al
(Rochester Business Journal 12/04/2019)
The following graduates and faculty members from the Eastman School of Music received nominations from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Inc.’s 62nd GRAMMY Awards: Bob Ludwig, ’66 and ’01, Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical; Sean Connors, ’04, Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance; Bob Ludwig, ’66, and Sunny Yang, ’04, Best Engineered Album, Classical; Ludwig, Best Immersive Audio Album; Paul O’Dette, Best Opera Recording.
Music: Quincy’s Danilo Perez leads a celebration of jazz
(Wicked Local 12/10/2019)
…The night will also see the debut performance of a “Charlie Parker Suite,” a new work composed by Bill Dobbins, a professor at the Eastman School in Rochester, N.Y. that celebrates and updates the late alto saxophonist’s vast impact on modern music. (Also reported by The Patriot Ledger)
Mountain Top to host ‘Jazz for the Holidays’ Dec. 7
(Conway Daily Sun 12/05/2019)
Back to the valley for the 11th year are two of New England’s most versatile jazz musicians, Seacoast pianist Tom Snow and local saxophonist Mike Sakash, performing “Jazz for the Holidays” in a mountaintop home decorated for the season and overlooking Silver Lake. […]
Sakash holds a bachelor’s degree from …, as well as a master’s degree in jazz studies and contemporary media from the Eastman School of Music.
He has studied saxophone with Lynn Klock and Raymond Ricker, improvisation with Yusef Lateef, and jazz composition and arranging with Fred Sturm. Before joining the ….
Wahoo prepares for 30th Annual Christmas on the Prairie
(Fremont Tribune 12/04/2019)
The historic Hanson House, at 12th and Linden streets, will offer tours of the home where American music educator and Pulitzer Prize winner Howard Hanson was born and grew up. […] a composer who won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1944 and ran the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., for 40 years.
A constructively critiqued concert
(Experience 12/05/2019)
After each soloist performed, special guest and clinician Dr. Chadwick Somers instructed them on how they could improve their singing skills.
The most common relayed message of Somers, operatic Tenor and Doctor of Musical Arts at the Eastman School of Music, was to “sing as if you are speaking.” …
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