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.)
Jazz At Lincoln Center Announces Inaugural Jack Rudin Jazz Championship Top-Placing Band Programs
(Broadway World 01/20/2020)
OUTSTANDING TROMBONE SECTION:
EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
OUTSTANDING SOPRANO SAXOPHONE:
MATTHEW INCONTRO (EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC)
OUTSTANDING TRUMPET:
EMIEL DEJAEGHER (EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC)
(Billy Strayhorn.com 01/18/2020)
Year in and year out, The Eastman School of Music Jazz Studies Program is considered one of the best in the country. We are proud to be a scholarship partner with Eastman and its great tradition. This year we congratulate Justice Freeman, trumpeter and first year jazz performance major. Justice is a native of Rochester, New York and is highly thought of by his music professors and fellow musicians. Continued success to Justice and his budding music career!
Los Angeles Master Chorale to Premiere SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS with New Score by Jeff Beal
(Broadway World 01/09/2020)
A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, he and his wife Joan recently endowed and established the Beal Institute at their alma mater, to promote the study of film and contemporary media music creation.
Soprano Brianna Robinson, Carnegie Competition Winner, to Sing at Water Island Festival
(St, Thomas Source 01/16/2020)
At the Eastman School of Music, she was been involved in the production of Massenet’s “Cendrillon” and Ralph Vaughan “Williams’ Riders to the Sea.
Alarm Will Sound Returns To St. Louis February 1 With World Premieres
(Broadway World 01/14/2020)
Since our earliest days playing together at the Eastman School of Music, we have collaborated with composers, designers, writers, choreographers, …
And then there were four: Kneebody settle into life as a quartet
(Chicago Reader 01/17/2020)
As far as album titles go, Kneebody’s Chapters is pretty damn on the nose. The record, which came out in October, is the instrumental avant-pop-jazz omnivores’ first full-length since they announced the departure of founding bassist Kaveh Rastegar last February, along with their transformation from a lean five-piece into an even leaner quartet. It’s the group’s only personnel change since they formed in 2001, after Rastegar, keyboardist Adam Benjamin, trumpeter Shane Endsley, and saxophonist Ben Wendel (who’d come together as students at Rochester’s prestigious Eastman School of Music) headed to Los Angeles and began gigging with drummer Nate Wood. …
Porchlight Music Theatre Has Announced the Host and Cast for NEW FACES SING BROADWAY NOW
(Broadway World 01/16/20)
Tom Vendafreddo has music directed most of the Paramount Theatre’s Broadway Series since the fall of 2013, including … He received his Bachelor of Music degree from Eastman School of Music and …
The music of Rochester composer David Temperley
(City Newspaper 01/07/2020)
… He has written extensively about music theory, language, and cognitive science. These pursuits brought him to Rochester. David Temperley has been a professor of music theory at the Eastman School of Music for the past 20 years. … (Also reported by WXXI)
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