Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Melinda Wagner, whose work has earned comparisons to music giants Elliott Carter and Olivier Messiaen, will be in-residence at the Eastman School of Music for this year’s Women in Music Festival. She will give a symposium, coach students, and attend rehearsals and performances of her works, including an all-Wagner concert by the…
Bard College President Leon Botstein, a noted writer on music as well as an adventurous conductor, will give the Eastman School of Music’s 2013 Glenn Watkins Lecture on Wednesday, March 6, at 4:30 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall, Eastman East Wing. He will speak on “The Future of Performance and Concert Life in Historical Perspective.”…
The Eastman School of Music’s Diversity Committee is hosting a discussion titled “Identities at Eastman: Talking about Religion on Campus” for Eastman and University of Rochester students, staff, and faculty on Monday, March 4, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in Ciminelli Formal Lounge in the Student Living Center. The discussion will explore how to talk…
Douglas Humpherys, department chair and professor of piano at the Eastman School of Music, has been named artistic director of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation. The foundation hosts festivals, concert series, and outreach educational programs to further pianistic art, and sponsors a major international piano competition. Humpherys, whose concert career has spanned more than…
Mezzo-soprano Melissa Fajardo won the Friends of Eastman Opera’s 12th annual competition for Eastman School of Music voice and opera students, held February 15 in the School’s Kilbourn Hall. She received the Lynne Clarke Vocal Prize in the amount of $1,500, donated by John Clarke in honor of his late wife, a founding member of…
Harking back to a golden era in recording – when the ensembles of the Eastman School of Music made dozens of pioneering LPs for the Mercury Living Presence label – the Eastman Wind Ensemble and Eastman Virtuosi team to release an all-Stravinsky album on Avie Records on February 12. The Eastman Wind Ensemble, traditionally a…
Eastman School of Music alumni Renée Fleming (MM ’83) and Robert (Bob) Ludwig (BM ’66 MM ’01) each won a Grammy during the 55th annual awards show Sunday, Feb. 10. Fleming was awarded her fourth Grammy for Best Classical Vocal Solo award for Poèmes, her album of four French orchestral song cycles. Ludwig, who is…
Highly recognized composer and Eastman School of Music alumnus David Crumb will be a guest composer at the School to hear his works performed by Eastman musicians and to meet with composition students. A recital of his compositions on Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 8 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall features Red Desert Triptych, performed by…
Rumors of a meeting between the Beatles and Karlheinz Stockhausen – icons of 1960s rock and avant-garde composition, respectively – are untrue, even though Stockhausen appears on the cover of the group’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album and the composer’s Hymnen echoes in John Lennon’s Revolution 9. But the idea of the-meeting-that-never-was is…