Opera was a source of national identity and pride in 19th-century Italy. Church organists were even encouraged to bring the sounds of the opera into the sanctuary, where it could be available to all, including those who couldn’t afford an opera ticket. The unfamiliar but highly enjoyable 19th-century Italian organ repertoire will be featured alongside…
World-renowned flutist Sir James Galway will be awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Music by the University of Rochester when he performs on NPR’s From the Top with Host Christopher O’Riley at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 19. The series was brought to Rochester by WXXI and the University’s Eastman School of Music to record a…
Eastman School of Music saxophonists will be performing both as invited guest artists and as competition participants at the North American Saxophone Alliance (NASA) Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from Thursday, March 20, through Sunday, March 23. The Eastman Saxophone Project, created in 2010 as a conductor-less saxophone ensemble, will be featured…
The works of Italo Calvino, one of the most important Italian writers of the 20th century, are the inspiration for a collaborative music-literature-theater project spearheaded by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez and Elena Bellina of the Eastman School of Music. Together with the bilingual New York City–based troupe Kairos Italy Theater and its Artistic Director Laura Caparrotti, the…
Voice students who want to perfect how they sing their vowels could get help from a new simple, free application developed by a group of University of Rochester students who developed it as part of their Human-Computer Interaction computer science class. Ehsan Hoque, an assistant professor in computer science who recently joined the University and…
Dialogues of the Carmelites, a lushly melodic opera with a dramatic story inspired by real events, will receive four performances by Eastman Opera Theatre beginning Thursday, April 3. The Voice and Opera Department has dedicated the production of Dialogues of the Carmelites to the memory of Gerald Lee, who for more than 30 years worked…
Graham Johnson, one of the world’s leading vocal accompanists and song scholars, will be in residence at the Eastman School of Music from Thursday, March 20, through Saturday, March 22. His schedule will include master classes for singers and pianists on art song in various languages as well as a talk on the vocal writing…
Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon, one of America’s most frequently performed composers and a major figure in contemporary classical music, headlines this year’s Women in Music Festival at the Eastman School of Music March 24 to 29. As composer-in-residence, she will hold a master class and a forum with students, and her solo and chamber…
“Jubilee! A Celebration of African-American Composers”, a concert at the Eastman School of Music in honor of Black History Month, will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 27, in the school’s Hatch Recital Hall. The program will feature the works of such composers as Eastman graduate and Pulitzer Prize winner George Walker (’56 DMA);…