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 School goes online for January, postpones performances – WXXI News
(WXXI News 01/08/2022)
The University of Rochester announced that all classes this month will be conducted online — and that includes the Eastman School of Music. (Also reported by Spectrum, CITY, NewsBreak)
American Classical Orchestra Presents REVISIT: THE CHACONNE PROJECT At Harlem Parish
(Broadway World 01/06/2022)
… led by ACO Founder and Artistic Director Thomas Crawford, features renowned …, he holds degrees in organ performance and composition from the Eastman School of Music and Columbia University. (Also reported by Harlem World Magazine)
QCSO oboist sings praises of our orchestra, while living and working in Austin, Texas …
(OurQuadCities 01/04/2022)
Andrew Parker loves the Quad City Symphony Orchestra (QCSO) so much, …
“I went to the Eastman School of Music to study with the amazing oboe teacher, Richard Killmer. I knew he was a guru, and I greatly enjoyed my audition/lesson with him,” he said. “He clearly cultivated an oboe studio that was supportive and passionate. At Eastman, the students were so focused on their art and that there existed an overt spirit of supportiveness and collaboration. It was a school in which each student was given the space they needed to discover the artist within.” …
Billings Symphony Orchestra and Chorale present Folk Musings program – The Billings Gazette
(The Billings Gazette 01/06/2022)
The Billings Symphony Orchestra and Chorale presents Folk Musings with Tyler Menzales and Elizabeth Adcock, an evening of music inspired by folk tunes from around the world, … Menzel obtained a Master of Music from The Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music. …
The Sisterhood of the Baton – Alta Journal
(Alta Journal 01/04/2022)
SHARE THE BATON
Nicole Paiement is one of many classical musicians who have been working consistently and persistently to change things. She knows from personal experience what it feels like to stand out as a “first.” In the late 1980s, when she attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, the petite French Canadian was that institution’s first-ever female conducting student. …
Marshall to present guest piano recital with New York pianist Michael Noble | Huntington News
(Huntington News 01/07/2022)
“Michael Noble studied piano performance at the Eastman School of Music, the Paris Conservatoire and the Royal Ghent Conservatory in Belgium.
Book Review: #ClassicalMusicSoWhite? – How It Got That Way and What to Do about It …
The Arts Fuse
Joseph Horowitz’s short, punchy, well-sourced, and compulsively readable book argues for bringing back the forgotten works of important Black composers. …
Horowitz is at his strongest when he advocates for specific works by Black composers. His enthusiasm for Dett’s The Ordering of Moses (the composer’s master’s thesis, written in his late 40s at the Eastman School of Music) will likely lead some conductors to get to know that work, especially as he helpfully compares two available recordings of the piece. The critic’s high praise for the arrangements of spirituals by Burleigh, Dawson, and others will, I hope, help encourage singers and choruses — regardless of their race and ethnicity — to perform these stirring and effective numbers. By Ralph P. Locke emeritus professor of musicology at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. …
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