Scott Healy, John Hollenbeck, Bob Ludwig, Maria Schneider, David Slonaker, Martha Cluver, and Eric Dudley—all graduates of the Eastman School of Music—are among the artists who received nominations in the 56th Annual Grammy Awards Competition. In addition, alumnus Ken Knappenberger is one of 10 finalists, chosen from more than 30,000 initial nominations, nominated for the…
Eastman Community Music School (ECMS) students and ensembles will be showcased in this year’s Winter Festival Day, also known as Holiday Homecoming. The daylong celebration, which features a series of concurrent performance in several venues on the Eastman School of Music campus, will begin at 9:50 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 21. The performances will feature…
Pianist Tatiana Tchekina, assistant professor of accompanying at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, died Saturday, Dec. 7, in an automobile accident. Professor Tchekina, who was 69, was married to violinist Oleh Krysa and since 1967 was the duo-partner in most of his recitals and recordings. “Professor Tchekina was a valued…
The entire Eastman community is shocked and deeply saddened to have learned about the accident that took the life of Tatiana Tchekina. Tatiana was an assistant professor of piano accompanying and wife to violin faculty member Oleh Krysa. Professor Krysa was also involved in the accident, and is recovering. Professor Tchekina was a valued member…
Rochester audiences will have one last chance to hear the magnificent Brombaugh organ, Opus 9 in concert at St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church before the organ is packed up and shipped to its new home in California. Eastman School of Music organ faculty members will join with the St. Michael’s Chamber Choir in a special…
Eastman School of Music students Ryaan Ahmed (MM ’15) and Erika Pinkerton (MM ’15) have received prestigious national honors. The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans named Ahmed a 2013 Fellow, and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation selected Pinkerton as a Graduate Arts Award Recipient. The awards recognize both students for their past…
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…