The Eastman School of Music welcomes a wide-ranging group of guest artists and lecturers to the Eastman campus in March! Keep reading for information about each event and visit esm.rochester.edu/events for further details.
Zachary Sweet ’03E, ’06E (MM), cello
ECMS Guest Masterclass: Sunday, March 2 at 4:00 p.m. | Eastman Annex – OSL 101
Zachary Sweet ’03E, ’06E (MM) is a performer and teaching artist that enjoys a varied carrier of teaching and stage, performing both classical and new music, and teaching young beginners through college aged students alike. He encourages versatility in students and leads through curiosity. He is a registered Teacher Trainer for the Suzuki Association of the Americas, instructor of cello at Nazareth College and Binghamton University, and on the faculty at Ithaca Talent Education and Music Together of Ithaca.
Philip Stoecker, Hofstra University
Eastman Theory Colloquium: Friday, March 1, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. | Howard Hanson Hall
Guest presenter Philip Stoecker is Professor of Music and Director of Music Theory and Ear Training Department Chair at Hofstra University. His research interests include the music of Thomas Adès, Alban Berg, George Perle, and Arnold Schoenberg. He co-edited Thomas Adès Studies (Cambridge University Press) with Edward Venn, and this collection of essays on the music of Adès won the 2022 Outstanding Multi-Author Collection Award of the Society for Music Theory.
Robert Hasegewa, McGill University
Eastman Theory Colloquium: Friday, March 8, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. | Howard Hanson Hall
Robert Hasegawa taught as part of Eastman’s Music Theory faculty from 2009 to 2012, and currently is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in Montréal.
Kyong Mee Choi, Guest Composer
EMuSE Concert: Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. | Hatch Recital Hall
Kyong Mee Choi, composer, visual artist, painter, organist and poet, has received several prestigious awards and grants including John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Robert Helps Prize, Aaron Copland Award, John Donald Robb Musical Trust Fund Commission, and more. For Choi, music is a medium through which she presents her understanding of life… The act of composing comes from a moment of quietness, stillness, and peace when the struggles of life are temporarily suspended.
Constance (Connie) McKoy, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
EDII Grant Guest Lecture: Monday, March 18, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. | Howard Hanson Hall
“Will Students Be Able to See Themselves in Your Music Program?”
Dr. Constance McKoy, co-author of Culturally Responsive Teaching in Music Education: From Understanding to Application, will visit Eastman to discuss equity and inclusion in music teaching and learning. Her visit is supported by Eastman’s Department of Music Teaching and Learning (MTL) and an Eastman Departmental Inclusion Initiative (EDII) Grant. McKoy is Marion Stedman Covington Distinguished Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research has been published in numerous professional journals and she has presented at state, divisional, national, and international music conferences as a music researcher and clinician.
James E. Clark Chamber Music Residency: JACK Quartet
Guest Concert: Thursday, March 19, 2024 at 12:30 p.m. | Hatch Recital Hall
Deemed “superheroes of the new music world” (Boston Globe), the thrice GRAMMY-nominated JACK Quartet’s “stylistic range, precision and passion have made the group one of contemporary music’s indispensable ensembles.” (The New York Times)
Based in New York City, JACK is the Quartet in Residence at the Mannes School of Music at The New School. Comprising Eastman alumni Jonathan Pickford Richards ’02E, ’04E (MM), viola, and Christopher Otto ’06, ’06E, violin, as well as violinist Austin Wulliman and cellist Jay Campbell, the group was founded in 2005. Otto has shared that partaking in Eastman’s various ensembles “helped prepare them to start a professional string quartet.”
Tiffany Valvo ’12E (MM), ’16E (DMA), San Francisco Conservatory of Music
IML Workshop: Monday, March 25, 2024 at 12:35 p.m. | Miller Center
“Expanding Your Digital Presence”
Join us for this workshop presented by ESM and ALP alum Tiffany Valvo ’12E (MM), ’16E (DMA), Digital Marketing Professor at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music! This session will challenge you to consider what you care about, what you want to talk about, and how to promote a concert or get people to pay attention – even if they have no interest in a TikTok account!
Amy Zoloto, clarinet
Guest Masterclass: Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 8:30 p.m. | Howard Hanson Hall
Bass clarinetist Amy Zoloto started in The Cleveland Orchestra during the 2019-20 season and as of the 2021-22 season she is in Cleveland full time. Previously, she was bass clarinetist with the New York Philharmonic since 2016, and was the bass clarinet/utility clarinet of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (2014–16), played as a substitute with the New York Philharmonic (2009–14), and was a member of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Zoloto has performed and toured with The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, and American Symphony Orchestra. She has participated in the Bard Music Festival, Colorado Music Festival, and Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan.
Alejandro Madrid, Harvard University
Musicology Symposium: Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. | Sibley Music Library
“Listening through the Noise of the Colonial Archive: Things, Sound Objects, Legacy, and the Konrad T. Preuss Collection at the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv”
Alejandro L. Madrid is the Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music at Harvard University. He is a cultural theorist of sound and music working in Latin American and Latinx studies. He is a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award, presented by Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in recognition of lifelong accomplishments in research and teaching; a Guggenheim Fellowship; the Dent Medal, awarded by the International Musicological Society and the UK’s Royal Musical Association for “outstanding contributions to musicology”; Cuba’s Premio de Musicología Casa de las Américas; as well as top awards from the American Musicological Society, the Latin American Studies Association, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, the ASCAP Foundation, and the Society for Ethnomusicology.
Toru Momii, Harvard University
Eastman Theory Colloquium: Friday, March 29, 2024 at 4:00 p.m. | Howard Hanson Hall
Toru Momii is Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University. His research explores topics of musical interculturality, racial and colonial politics of U.S./Canadian music theory, performance analysis, gagaku, and popular music of Japan and the Japanese diaspora. His article “A Transformational Approach to Gesture in Shō Performance” (2020) was awarded the 2021 Outstanding Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory. His research has been recognized by the SMT-40 Dissertation Fellowship from the Society for Music Theory and the Junior Fellowship in Japan Studies from the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. His writing appears in Music Theory Online and Circuit.
Catherine Michel and Andrew Chan, harp
Andrew Chan Guest IML Class: Thursday, March 28 at 12:35 p.m. | Messinger 1 (10 Gibbs St.)
Catherine Michel Guest Masterclass: Friday, March 29, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. | Howard Hanson Hall
Guest Recital “From Versailles to Hollywood”: Saturday, March 30, 2024 at 2:30 p.m. | Hatch Recital Hall
Catherine Michel was born in Amiens, where she studied the harp, piano and music theory with her mother. After her mother’s untimely passing, Pierre Jamet took the young girl under his wing and she entered the National Conservatoire for Dance and Music (CNSM) in Paris, where she was awarded a First Prize diploma at the age of 15. She won two major international awards, in Israel and the United States, as well as a Gold Medal at the Paris Competition.
Applauded by the National Post as “a rare charisma,” Canadian harpist Andrew Chan has performed across Canada, USA, and in Asia as a solo, concerto, orchestral and chamber musician. For nine seasons, he performed successfully as Principal Harp for the Toronto Concert Orchestra under the baton of the late Kerry Stratton, who repeatedly featured him as a soloist performing concertos by Debussy (2014, 2018), Handel (2013, 2018), Mozart (2017 tour) and Ravel (2014).