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.)
A local country connection, and a couple of Eastman honors, at Grammys – WXXI News
(WXXI News 04/03/2022)
Jazz bassist Ron Carter was one of Sunday night’s Grammy winners with a local connection, as an Eastman School of Music graduate and inductee to …
Remembering the Ukraine we’ve lost in the classic documentary, ‘In Spring’ – WXXI News
(WXXI News 03/30/2022)
Ukraine is on our minds. The Ukrainian group Dakha Brakha has an April 5 show at the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall. I saw them at the 2017 Rochester International Jazz Festival. An unexpectedly theatrical quartet in black and red traditional garments, Dakha Brakha is a bearded bald man and three women in black fur hats 1½ feet tall.
‘Beautiful Small Things’ sets poetry by autistic youth to music – Chicago Tribune
(Chicago Tribune 04/02/2022)
LYNX Project, the Chicago-based nonprofit behind “Beautiful Small Things,” was founded by four Eastman School of Music students in 2015 who sought …
Lucas Meachem Makes House And Role Debut At Teatro Di San Carlo As ‘Baron Scarpia’ In TOSCA
(Broadway World 04/01/2022)
Born in North Carolina, Lucas Meachem studied music at Appalachian State University, the Eastman School of Music, and Yale University before becoming an Adler Fellow with the San Francisco Opera.
Allegrissimo! – Columbia Metropolitan Magazine
(Columbia Metropolitan Magazine April 2022)
For Columbia-based orchestra conductor extraordinaire Suzanna Pavlovsky, music is as important as the air she breathes, and she has dedicated her life to sharing its magic with others. …
When she entered into a doctorate program through Eastman School of Music in upstate New York, she said to herself, …
(Waupaca County Post 03/31/2022)
Series features live music, interactive exhibit, film, talks …
Bob Milne will perform ragtime piano … Milne attended the Eastman School of Music at the age of 17, and then became assistant first horn in the Rochester Philharmonic at age 19.
A classical music concert that shreds? Welcome to the world of DJ Sparr – Preview | Houston
(Preview | Houston – Houston Chronicle 03/28/2022)
Indeed, “The World Within” is not Sparr’s first rock-influenced work for Aperio, which performed his “The Glam Seduction” in 2018. (The composer also attended Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., with Aperio secretary/cellist Daniel Saenz.)
Nancy Kelly to be inducted in Rochester Music Hallof Fame on May 1, 2022 & The Release …
(minsk.by 03/2022)
Singer, composer, educator Nancy Kelly has always been drawn to the arts. From age four, in her hometown of Rochester, New York, Nancy first studied piano, which later led to clarinet, dramatic arts, dance and later voice – which was to be her calling – at the Eastman School of Music. …
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