When internationally renowned double bass soloist and Eastman School of Music Professor James VanDemark took up boxing two years ago, he saw immediate crossover benefits to his playing. VanDemark, a “lightweight” at only 5’6″ and 138 pounds, immediately thought of the impact boxing could have on his students, so he sent some of his women…
A Japanese legend promises that folding 1,000 paper cranes makes a wish come true. At the Eastman School of Music this Friday, April 1, members of the School’s community will show their support and raise funds for the victims of the earthquake in Japan with a “Day of One Thousand Cranes.” The event, which will…
Twelve exceptionally talented young singer-actors from the United States, United Kingdom, and China will compete for top prizes of $15,000, $10,000 and $7,500 in the finals of the 2011 Lotte Lenya Competition on Saturday, April 16, at the Eastman School of Music. The contestants will compete in front of a panel of judges composed of…
American and Russian music “From Times Square to Red Square” will fill the First Presbyterian Church of Albion at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 10. The concert, part of this season’s Eastman at Albion Courthouse Square concert series, will feature flutist Sophia Gibbs Kim and pianist Irina Lupines, faculty members at the Eastman Community Music…
Building upon more than four decades of generously supporting programs and initiatives across the University of Rochester, alumnus Martin E. Messinger and his wife Joan have made a commitment to endow the position of Dean of the Eastman School of Music. Douglas Lowry, the Eastman School’s sixth Dean, will be named the first Joan and…
The Chiara String Quartet will present the Rochester premiere of Milagros by Gabriela Lena Frank, a composer who often draws on her multicultural heritage, during its Eastman-Ranlet Series concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 3, in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. The ensemble’s program will open with Beethoven’s String Quartet in A…
Over the next few weeks, Eastman School of Music students will be reaching out into the community with classical music, presenting interactive concerts in schools, libraries, churches, nursing homes, hospitals, and other locations. The events are part of the School’s “Music for All” initiative, a chamber music program designed to take classical music out of…
Avant-garde jazz composer and trumpet virtuoso Cuong Vu, widely recognized by jazz critics as a leader of a generation of innovative musicians, will be in residence at the Eastman School of Music and will present free concerts with his trio on Thursday, March 31, and Friday, April 1. Vu’s trio features drummer Ted Poor, who…
Seven leading German organists and professors from the Hochschule für Künste (University of the Arts) in Bremen will be in residence at the Eastman School of Music and will give public performances, including two concerts on Sunday, March 27. As part of the Eastman at St. Michael’s Series of monthly recitals, Winfried Dahlke, Klaus Eichhorn,…