The late Rita Shane, a dramatic coloratura soprano, joined the faculty of the Eastman School of Music as a professor of voice in 1989. She had also taught at Manhattan School of Music, conducted master classes, judged vocal competitions, and maintained a private teaching studio in New York City. Before her death in October of…
The Eastman School of Music will honor former director Robert Freeman for his long-time service to the school and to the Rochester community by naming the atrium of its Sibley Music Library in his honor. During the dedication ceremony, which will be held Tuesday, April 7, at 3 p.m. in the library, Freeman also will…
Fourteen exceptionally talented young singer-actors from the United States and Europe will compete for the top prize in the finals of the 2015 Lotte Lenya competition, which will be held at the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall on Saturday, April 18. Both the daytime finals and the evening concert are free and open to…
On Sunday, April 12, at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music faculty and students will perform works by select Jewish composers to mark Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). Titled “A Time to Remember . . .” the concert features music written by those who perished or survived the camps, and music written…
Ned Rorem’s opera treatment of Our Town, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Thornton Wilder, will be presented by Eastman Opera Theatre April 9 through 12 in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The production is the first in upstate New York since the opera’s professional debut at the Lake George Opera in July 2006. Wilder’s…
ROCHESTER, N.Y.–James C. Doser, an award-winning educator and administrator, musician, and businessman, has been named Director of the Eastman School of Music’s Institute for Music Leadership. He will be responsible for overseeing all Institute activities and programs, including the Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership Program, the Paul R. Judy Center for Applied Research, the Center…
The Eastman School of Music community was shocked and saddened to learn of the untimely death of prominent jazz trumpeter Lew Soloff from a heart attack on Sunday, March 8, in New York City. Mr. Soloff, who was 71, received his Bachelor of Music degree at Eastman in 1965. In a career spanning five decades,…
Rochester’s Publick Musick will be joined by Boston-based soprano Shari Alise Wilson and organist Edoardo Bellotti for two performances of music from the early Italian Baroque period on Thursday, March 19, at the Memorial Art Gallery. Titled “Tota pulchra es, amica mea,” the event is part of the series Third Thursday Concerts with Eastman’s Italian…
Within a year of starting their collaboration, pianist Dariusz Terefenko and alto saxophonist Alexa Tarantino gave concerts in Dallas, Rochester, Hartford, and New York City, and issued their recent album Crossing Paths. Now, the jazz duo is taking their show further afield, traveling to Poland in March to teach and perform, and to Brazil in…