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.)
Putting Rochester First: Eastman Community Music School
(RochesterFirst 08/31/2020)
Dr. Petar Kodzas, Eastman Community Music School Associate Dean & Director, joined us in studio Monday to talk about how the pandemic has …
Eastman Opera Theatre announces 2020-21 season
(Monroe County Post 08/25/2020)
As the Eastman School of Music prepares to celebrate its upcoming centennial, EOT plans to continue the season in 2021 with two operas by Eastman …
(Rochester Business Journal 08/26/2020)
Eastman School of Music announces the following new faculty members: Benjamin Baker ’18; Nicole Cabell ’01; Yoojin Jang; Sarah Marlowe, ’13; …
Entrepreneurship And Professional Development Expert Casey Molino Dunn Joins The Music …
(Broadway World 08/31/2020)
Mr. Molino Dunn previously coordinated the Eastman School of Music‘s Office of Careers and Professional Development and … This fall he is a guest lecturer in career classes at the Eastman School of Music and at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Casey holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Also reported by Noozhawk)
Tenor Zach Finkelstein to Release New Album in 2021
(OperaWire 09/01/2020)
The recording will be produced in a collaboration with the famed guitarist Dieter Hennings Yeoman and is slated for release in fall of 2021. …
Dieter Hennings Yeomans has been a soloist with Canada’s New Music Concerts Ensemble, the Tito Sccipa Orchestra of Lecce, Italy, Eastman BroadBand Ensemble, Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de la Universidad de Guanajuato, Orquesta Filarmónica de Sonora, the University of Arizona Philharmonia, the Orquesta Filarmonica de Monterrey, among others. Hennings Yeomans is the Associate Professor of Music at the University of Kentucky.
Festival organizers say concert series not only survived, it thrived
(Brainerd Dispatch 08/26/2020)
They used the pandemic as an opportunity to take their concert series online as they didn’t want to cancel it. Scott Lykins, executive and artistic director; John Taylor Ward, associated artistic director; and Carol Russell, board member, are happy they did. …
Lykins founded the music festival in 2009 when he returned to his hometown of Brainerd with four musicians from the Eastman School of Music in New York. Lykins and his colleagues wanted to share their musical talents with the community and each year the audience base grew. The festival includes music from chamber music and symphonic orchestra, to productions of opera and ballet.
Vocal Artistry of Track Pageant options the music of Spain
(Publishing News 08/30/2020)
Followers can go online to the Vocal Artistry of Track Pageant in its digital debut on Friday, Sept. 4 and Saturday, Sept. 5. …
This system will open at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, with a free live performance by Dos Tenores!, tenors Matthew Valverde and André Garcia Nuthmann with Kristin Ditlow on piano at vocalartistryartsong.com. …
Valverde recently received his doctoral degree from the Eastman School of Music and teaches at Adams State University in Colorado. The students … (Also reported by Albuquerque Journal )
Chris Urquiaga reimagines ’90s Latin-pop hit ‘Macarena’ for his debut release as JChris
(Metro Weekly 08/28/2020)
… in the decade since first coming to attention as a classical composer and artist studying at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.
Friends University’s new director of choral studies appeared on Glee
(The Wichita Eagle 08/30/2020)
Aside from zipping through the state during cross-country moves, Rayvon T.J. Moore had never been in Kansas before. … California State University-Fullerton, and a doctor of musical arts degree in conducting from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.
Brown named Director of WIU School of Music
(McDonough Voice 08/26/2020)
Western Illinois University Professor Jeffrey Brown has been named director of the University’s School of Music, effective July 1, according to …
Brown is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, where he earned the Performer’s Certificate, the Master of Music and the Doctor of Musical Arts …
New faculty, staff, administrators announced
(Bethel College, KS 08/26/2020)
Bethel College has made new faculty, staff and administrative appointments for the 2020-21 school year.
Joel Boettger – director of bands (new position). He is a graduate of Bethel College in music and education, and has a master’s degree in jazz and contemporary media from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y. He was previously instructor of jazz studies at Bethel.
Why I am an activist artist, by JChris
(DC Metro Theater Arts 08/24/2020)
JChris graduated from The Eastman School of Music in 2014, where he majored in Music Composition. During his time at Eastman, he recorded, …
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