The Tonight Show with Jay Leno has tapped Eastman School of Music student David Aguila to reveal for the first time ever to a national audience a talent he’s developed alongside his musical ability. On Wednesday, Jan. 26, Aguila will surprise viewers with a skill he’s honed but kept hidden. He’ll appear in a segment…
During the 2009-2010 academic year, Eastman School of Music faculty and students, members of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and guest musicians helped to raise $575 and 781 pounds of food for Rochester’s Foodlink as part of a new benefit concert series titled “If Music Be the Food . . .” The first performance in the…
The continuing series of monthly “Eastman at St. Michael’s” recitals will feature a variety of music, from concerts for woodwinds, violins, and organ to sacred choral masterpieces. Presented in historic St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church by vocal and instrumental performance majors from the Eastman School of Music, upcoming concerts include a narrated presentation of Prokofiev’s…
Eastman School of music freshman Jennifer Zhou has been chosen as one of only three flutists in the 2011 YouTube Symphony Orchestra and will be performing under renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas at the Sydney Opera House. The YouTube Symphony Orchestra is made of up musicians from across the globe who went through an online…
Renée Fleming, the world’s most sought-after and beloved soprano, will be returning to her hometown and alma mater to perform with the Eastman Philharmonia under the direction of Neil Varon in a benefit concert for the Renée Fleming Endowed Scholarship Fund at the Eastman School of Music. “Renée Fleming’s performance at our official gala to…
A day-long series of concerts at the Eastman School of Music will highlight the opportunities and advantages for musicians of all ages and skill levels to perform or play together. The recitals, which start at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 22, mark the International Day of Collaborative Music, part of a year-long project by the…
The Eastman School of Music’s Eastman Opera Theatre, Madrigalia, and Geomantics Dance Theater are collaborating to offer local audiences an exciting production of an 18th-century opera based on the Greek legend of Orpheus. From January 27 to 30, the three arts organizations will present Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice), a work…
Graham Johnson, one of world’s leading vocal accompanists, will be in-residence at the Eastman School of Music on Tuesday, Jan. 11, and Wednesday, Jan.12, 2011, for several events in the School’s new Hatch Recital Hall. The events include a lecture on accompaniment, and master classes in French and German art songs. Johnson’s residency is sponsored…
An annual concert that supports the William Warfield Scholarship Fund and continues the legacy of one of the great vocal artists of the 20th century will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011, in the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall. The concert will feature this year’s scholarship recipient, bass-baritone Jamal Moore, a…