Ruth Cahn, senior instructor in percussion at the Eastman Community Music School (ECMS), has received the Lifetime Achievement in Education Award from The Percussive Arts Society. The award recognizes the contributions of the most highly regarded leaders in percussion education. Established in 2002, the award honors recipients for demonstrating the highest ideals and professional integrity…
Jonathan Wintringham, a master’s degree student at the Eastman School of Music, will be featured as a “Young Artist in Residence” on Performance Today, a national classical music radio series that airs locally on WXXI FM 91.5. (Read and watch the feature online.) A saxophonist and recording artist who made his professional debut at 17,…
Prize-winning French composer Philippe Leroux, whose work includes electronic, acousmatic, vocal, chamber, and symphonic music, will be in-residence in the Eastman School of Music Nov. 20 and 21. His visit, sponsored by the Eastman Computer Music Center (ECMC), includes a recital and public symposium. Leroux’s celebrated Voi(rex), a five-movement chamber piece based on a collection…
The Eastman Community Music School’s New Horizons Band will perform its annual Holiday Concert on Sunday, Dec. 8, at 2 p.m. in the University of Rochester’s Advancement Center Auditorium (formerly St. Agnes High School) located at 300 East River Rd. The event is free and open to the public; the venue is handicap accessible with…
Students from the Eastman School of Music’s Saxophone and Organ studios will collaborate on a concert titled “Saxophone and Organ: 18th-century Italian Music in New Perspectives” on Sunday, Nov. 17 at 5:30 p.m. As part of the Third Sunday Concert series, the concert will be held in the resonant Fountain Court at the Memorial Art…
Violin virtuoso and classical music icon Itzhak Perlman will perform with the Eastman School of Music’s Philharmonia orchestra under conductor Neil Varon on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. Beloved for his charm and humanity as well as his remarkable artistry, Perlman has appeared with every major orchestra…
Steven Laitz, professor of music theory at the Eastman School of Music, has been named director of the Gail Boyd de Stwolinski Center for Music Theory Pedagogy. He becomes only the second director of the Center, which was founded in 1985 at the University of Oklahoma. Laitz will continue to serve on the faculty at…
The Eastman School of Music, in conjunction with Ithaca College and The Juilliard School, is presenting the 8th annual Music College Fair in Upstate New York at Eastman on Wednesday, Nov. 6, from 5 to 7 p.m. High school and college students who are considering schools with programs in music will have the opportunity to…
As one of the winning ensembles of the Percussive Arts Society’s International Percussion Ensemble Competition, the Eastman Percussion Ensemble will perform a Showcase Concert at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) in Indianapolis on Saturday, Nov. 16. In their showcase concert, the Eastman Percussion Ensemble will present a program of contemporary percussion repertoire, featuring…