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.)
Jazz news: Eastman Community Music School World Campus: Launch of New World-Wide Program
(All About Jazz 10/12/2021)
For more than a century, Eastman School of Music‘s historic campus has attracted leading performers and teachers from around the world. With the launch of … (Also reported by 91.5 Jazz and More)
Gateways Music Festival awarded $800000 from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
(The Strad 10/21/21)
Founded in 1993 by concert pianist and retired Eastman School of Music associate professor Armenta Hummings Dumisani, Gateways comprises 125 musicians …
Kronos Quartet and young players build bridges at Merkin Hall – New York Classical Review
(New York Classical Review 10/22/2021)
Next, the Kodak Quartet, graduate artists-in-residence at Montclair State, performed Trey Spruance’s Séraphîta, a piece with a North African flavor inspired by Balzac’s metaphysical novel of the same name. (As for the ensemble’s name, it might suggest musical tourism à la Kronos, but in fact refers to Kodak Hall at the players’ alma mater, Eastman School of Music.)
The Sound of Music Returns | Music | yesweekly.com
(YES! Weekly 10/20/21)
Greensboro is alive with the sound of music once again as the 2020-2021 …
Anthony Dean Griffey and Warren Jones will perform on March 25 at 7:30 p.m. Griffey, a High Point native and four-time Grammy-winning artist, is a frequent performer at many prestigious opera houses and serves on faculty at the Eastman School of Music. …
Jazz Vespers Is Back with the Bill Cunliffe Trio!
(All Saints Church, Pasadena 10/19/2021)
He graduated from Duke University and the Eastman School of Music, where he won several Down Beat Awards. Bill was the 1989 winner of the $10,000 …
With ‘Prohibition’ concerts, Milwaukee Symphony salutes birthdate of new home
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 10/25/2021)
Tyzik orchestrated music for a smaller 1920s-type orchestra “to really play the music in a way that it should sound authentic,” he said.
He lives in Rochester, New York, where he is principal pops conductor for the Rochester Philmarmonic, which performs at the Eastman School of Music. Eastman houses many of the late composer Kurt Weill’s manuscripts, so Tyzik looked at Weill’s original score “Alabama Song” before orchestrating his version for “Prohibition.” …
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