The appointment of Jamal J. Rossi as the Joan and Martin Messinger Dean of the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music was formally celebrated today, Sunday, Oct. 26, during a ceremony in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. In his remarks, Rossi described the event as “our day to celebrate the future of our school.” …
Pianist Daria Rabotkina will present a concert in memory of former Eastman School of Music Joan and Martin Messinger Dean Douglas Lowry at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 28, at 8 p.m. Rabotkina, who graduated from Eastman School of Music with a Doctorate of Musical Arts in 2012, is the winner…
The Eastman School of Music will present two concerts to celebrate longtime conducting and composition faculty member and Eastman alumnus Sydney Hodkinson’s 80th birthday. The concerts will consist of an array of works by Hodkinson and repertoire that complements his compositions, performed by the Eastman Wind Ensemble and Musica Nova. The first concert, at 8…
Jazz and classical music performances by faculty, including the dean himself, will highlight the formal investiture of Jamal J. Rossi as the Joan and Martin Messinger Dean of the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. The inaugural ceremony, at 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26, in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, will also feature the…
Eastman Opera Theatre brings Albert Herring, a comedic opera about a young British man who sets out to relinquish his purity, to the Kilbourn Hall stage for four performances beginning Thursday, November 6. The three-act, two-and-a-half-hour production by Benjamin Britten is a witty comedy and a pointed satire of British small-town attitudes. The opera tells…
Trumpet virtuoso, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, and Grammy Award-winning jazz and classical icon Arturo Sandoval will perform in Kodak Hall at the Eastman Theater with his band Sunday, Nov. 2, at 3 p.m. His appearance is part of the Eastman School of Music’s new “Eastman Presents” series of guest artists. A protégé of the…
Dramatic coloratura soprano Rita Shane, who performed as Queen of the Night more than 250 times and originated the lead in Dominick Argento’s Miss Havisham’s Fire, died Thursday, October 9, in New York City after a brief and courageous battle with pancreatic and liver cancer. She was 78 years old and was Professor of Voice…
The art of organ accompaniment to silent film will be explored in an upcoming four-day event that includes screenings of several iconic movies from the early 20th century with live accompaniment by internationally known organists. The Organ and Film Festival, presented by the Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative and the Film/Music Cluster of the University of…
Paul O’Dette, professor of lute and professor of conducting and ensembles at the Eastman School of Music, is receiving international recognition for the albums My Favorite Dowland and Charpentier: La Descente d’Orphee aux enfers; La Couronne de Fleurs. My Favorite Dowland (Harmonia Mundi, May 2014), O’Dette’s personal selection of works by one of the lute’s…