Two ensembles of Eastman School of Music students were winners at the 2013 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition: in the Senior Wind Division, Project Fusion captured the Gold Medal and $3,500 prize, while The Midic Winds were awarded the Bronze Medal and $2,000. The Gold Medal prize added to the list of national honors this…
Jennifer Bellor, Paulo Perfeito, and Marc Schwartz of the Eastman School of Music have received DownBeat honors in the magazine’s 36th annual Student Awards competition. Schwartz was recognized in the Jazz Soloist/Graduate College category for a recording that included an alto saxophone performance on “Stella By Starlight,” and in the Jazz Arrangement/Graduate College category for…
To the Eastman Community: Filming of the The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is returning to the Eastman area Thursday May 9th, from 8 a.m to 5 p.m., and both Main Street and East Avenue will be closed to traffic west of Scio Street. I have attached a PDF of the closure areas for your information. Street Closings Main Street will…
This year’s graduates of the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music will receive parting advice from alumnus, faculty member, and School historian Vincent Lenti, who will offer his perspective on Eastman’s past 60 years and its future. Lenti, who was recently feted for five decades of service to the School, will speak at the…
The Eastman Community Music School’s Guitar Program will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a concert featuring current students and teachers as well as alumni and former faculty at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 17, in Hatch Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Approximately 150 area students have studied in the…
To the Eastman Community: Downtown Rochester will host the filming of the major Hollywood movie The Amazing Spider-Man 2 from Tuesday, April 30 to Thursday, May 9, and during this time Main Street and some surrounding streets will be shut down between 6 AM and 9 PM. Action sequences that include car chases and other…
Project Fusion, an award-winning saxophone quartet composed of Eastman School of Music doctoral students Dannel Espinoza and Matt Evans, master’s degree student Michael Sawzin, and Matt Amedio BM ‘13, claimed the Grand Prize at the 2013 Plowman Chamber Music competition. The competition, held earlier this month at the Missouri Theatre in Columbia, is a highly…
Michel Bouvard, one of today’s leading French concert organists, and a visiting professor of organ at the Eastman School of Music this spring, will be presenting two public concerts. On Sunday, April 21, at 5:30 p.m., Bouvard will perform in Eastman’s monthly Third Sunday Concerts with the Italian Baroque Organ series at the Memorial Art…
Robert Haskins, Associate Professor of Musicology and Graduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Music at the University of New Hampshire, will deliver the last of the John Cage Centennial Lectures of the Eastman School of Music on Thursday, April 18. Titled “John Cage and Zen: What Did He Know, When Did He Know It,…