A new work by André Previn, the celebrated conductor, composer, pianist, and Oscar and Grammy winner, will receive its world premiere in a concert by the Eastman Wind Ensemble at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. Under conductor Mark Davis Scatterday, the ensemble will perform Music for…
To most of us, Salomé is a salacious symbol of sexual excess. But that wasn’t always the case. A striking new production combines the illustrations of famed comic-book artist P. Craig Russell with music to tell the biblical story of a beautiful and sensuous young dancer. Russell’s evocative graphic novel, based on Richard Strauss’s opera Salomé,…
Korean musician Jang Hyun Won, a legendary performer on the daegum, or traditional Korean wooden flute, will be in residence at the Eastman School of Music Thursday, Sept. 18. Won will give a class about daegum and Korean traditional music from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18,in the Ciminelli Formal Lounge located in…
The Eastman School of Music, in conjunction with Ithaca College and The Juilliard School, is presenting the 9th annual Music College Fair in Upstate New York at Eastman on Thursday, Oct. 9, from 5 to 7 p.m. High school and college students who are interested in music will have the opportunity to meet one-on-one…
Concert organist and Eastman School of Music faculty member Nathan Laube will present “Rochester’s Italian Baroque Organ, A Musical Cosmopolite”at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, in the Fountain Court at the Memorial Art Gallery.Featuring works by Cabanilles, Frescobaldi, Phillips, Rameau, Rossi, and others, the concert opens the 2014-2015 season of Third Thursday Concerts on…
Internationally noted jazz composer, arranger, and teacher Fred Sturm, an Eastman School of Music alumnus and faculty member from 1991 to 2002, died Sunday, August 24, in De Pere, Wis., following a long battle with cancer. He was 63 and was the Kimberly-Clark Professor of Music and director of jazz and improvisational music at Lawrence…
Gabriel Condon, a master’s degree student at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, was awarded first place in the jazz category of the 2014 Wilson Center Guitar Competition & Festival. Sponsored by the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts in Brookfield, Wis., the annual competition is conducted in four areas: rock/blues, fingerstyle,…
High school students interested in enhancing their music studies can ramp up their knowledge of music theory through a new interactive online video course offered by the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. Developed and taught by internationally known music theorist Steven Laitz and offered through the School’s Institute for Music Leadership, eTheory LIVE…
The Eastman School of Music’s annual Faculty Artist Series, supported by Patricia Ward-Baker, starts in September and features performances of every kind, from violin to tuba to jazz piano. The recitals give local music lovers the chance to hear the talented artists perform on their home turf during their busy schedules of frequent appearances across…