Samuel Hope, a longtime unceasing advocate for arts education who recently retired as executive director of the National Association of Schools of Music, will return to his alma mater as the commencement speaker for the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music graduation on Sunday, May 18. In addition, Associate Professor of Music Theory William…
RocMusic, a community-based program that provides after-school tuition-free music and string instruction to children in the City of Rochester, will hold its first annual benefit event on Friday, May 16. Funds raised will be used to purchase instruments for current and future students. The benefit event, which will be held at the David F. Gantt…
Saxophonist Phil Pierick, a doctoral student at the Eastman School of Music, has received a Fulbright Study/Research Grant and will spend the 2014-2015 academic year in Austria. There, he will be studying contemporary music performance practice with Lars Mlekusch at the Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität in Vienna. A staunch advocate for new music, Pierick has commissioned…
DownBeat, often described as “the bible of jazz,” has recognized the Eastman School of Music’s Eastman Chamber Jazz Ensemble under director Jeff Campbell for outstanding undergraduate college performance in the magazine’s 37th annual Student Awards competition. The publication also chose a work by Eastman musician Michael Conrad as the best original composition for a large…
Elizabeth Bucura has been appointed Assistant Professor of Music Education at the Eastman School of Music beginning in the 2014-2015 academic year. Bucura is currently a lecturer at Arizona State University, where she recently earned her doctoral degree. She has also been an online course facilitator for Boston University. Her research has investigated music educators…
A wide variety of renowned guest artists, ranging from musical theater and television stars Jason Alexander and Bernadette Peters to the classical music world’s Emerson and Dover String Quartets, will appear on Eastman School of Music stages during the 2014-2015 concert season. Alexander and Peters are among the headliners for Eastman Presents, a new series…
The Eastman Community Music School’s New Horizons Concert and Symphonic Bands will present a free spring concert at 7 p.m. Monday, May 19, in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The 90-minute program will feature Broadway tunes, marches, and popular songs. Works performed by the Concert Band will include a tribute to Elvis Presley, while the…
Music and motion combine in an upcoming performance on the Eastman School of Music’s Italian Baroque Organ at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24, in the Fountain Court at the Memorial Art Gallery. Titled “Organ and the Body,” the program showcases the collaborative work of three choreographers and four musicians, each responding to the artwork and…
Holly Watkins, associate professor of musicology at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, has been awarded a 2014-2015 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship to support work on her new book, Echoes of the Nonhuman: Organicism, Biology, and Musical Aesthetics from the Enlightenment to the Present. One of only 65 scholars from…