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.)
Eastman saxophone alumni lead Cowboys & Frenchmen on “Our Highway”
(City Newspaper 03/04/2021)
… saxophonists Owen Broder and Ethan Helm, who have played together since attending the Eastman School of Music. After graduating in 2012, they …
Singing about science, Hai-Ting Chinn brings together two worlds
(SF Chronicle Datebook 03/03/2021)
Chinn left California to study music at New York’s Eastman School of Music and at Yale, but she says her musical career — which includes everything …
Local students receive Howard Hanson awards
(Monroe County Post 03/02/2021)
Daniel Yihan Mao … He is a candidate for the Eastman Community Music School‘s pre-collegiate diploma in piano with honors. Mao is the producer for his school’s morning …
The certificate is named in honor of Howard Hanson, an American composer, conductor, educator and director of the Eastman School of Music from 1924 to 1964.
NSU to feature Hamar at Green Country Jazz Festival
(Tahlequah Daily Press 03/01/2021)
This year’s festival will feature Jon Hamar and the NSU Jazz Ensemble. …
He continued on to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he graduated with a master’s degree in jazz and contemporary media in 2001. While at Eastman, he studied the bass with Jeff Campbell and James VanDemark and worked closely with Harold Danko, Fred Sturm and Clay Jenkins. (Also reported by Muskogee Daily Phoenix)
Wolfeboro Friends of Music to offer virtual performance by Gathering Time
(Conway Daily Sun 02/25/2021)
Stuart Markus, … grew up in Rochester, N.Y., where he studied at the Eastman School of Music. Now, Markus is a leading organizer of folk music affairs on the Island, …
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