Tenor Matthew Grills, a second year master’s degree student at the Eastman School of Music, has been named a finalist in the 2012 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Along with eight other finalists, he will perform in a Grand Finals Concert this Sunday, March 18, in New York City. From this group, winners are chosen…
“True love prevails” is a universal story, whether the lovers live in a Czechoslovakian village or on the plains of Iowa. In Eastman Opera Theatre’s upcoming production of The Bartered Bride, a 1930s Midwestern county fair stands in for a 19th century church festival in central Europe, a scheming attorney replaces a scheming marriage broker,…
Canadian pianist and composer Lorraine Desmarais, a versatile jazz musician who’s also performed with classical artists, headlines this year’s Women in Music Festival at the Eastman School of Music March 26 to 31. As composer-in-residence, she will hold workshop and coaching sessions, attend recitals of her works, and rehearse and perform with the Eastman New…
The Eastman School of Music’s student chapter of the National Association for Music Education and the Rochester Education Foundation have announced that they are partnering on NAfME’s current initiative to benefit music programs in the Rochester City School District. The initiative includes an instrument drive through March 31, with several drop-off centers located throughout the…
The Eastman School of Music will present Voice of Eastman, a program featuring seven students from the Voice and Opera Department, as part of the prestigious Conservatory Project at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Sopranos Adelaide Boedecker, Joel Dyson, and Elizabeth Smith, mezzo-soprano Melissa Fajardo, tenor Matthew Grills, baritone Thomas Lehman,…
Eight organists, all faculty members from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, will present concerts on Sunday, Feb. 26, as part of a week-long study trip to the Eastman School of Music. The musicians, who are recording and prize-winning artists as well as renowned cathedral organists, will be featured in the Italian Baroque…
The benefit concert series If Music Be the Food . . . will continue its third season with a concert at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Rd. (at East Avenue) in Rochester, on Sunday, Feb. 26, at 7:30 p.m. Last year’s concert series, which involved Eastman School of Music faculty and students, members of…
Two Eastman School of Music graduates were recognized in the 54th Grammy Awards: Robert (Bob) Ludwig (BM ’66 music education and MM ’01 trumpet) was honored for Best Surround Sound Album and Christopher Lamb (BM ’81) won for Best Classical Instrumental Solo. Ludwig was the surround mastering engineer on the album Layla and Other Assorted…
The Eastman School of Music’s student chapter of the National Association for Music Education is organizing activities to benefit music programs in the Rochester City School District. A two-month “Instrument Drive” and a pair of concerts in March are planned to help boost programs for elementary and secondary school students. The instrument drive will take place…