“Eastman at St. Michael’s,” a series of monthly recitals presented in historic St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church by vocal and instrumental performance majors from the Eastman School of Music, returns for a new season beginning Sunday, Sept. 27. The first fall concert will feature Voices, Rochester’s professional choral chamber ensemble, conducted by founder and Eastman…
The Eastman-Rochester Chorus is holding auditions for its 2009-2010 season, with openings for all voice parts. Auditions are open to all singers in the greater Rochester area. The chorus is scheduled to perform “Kyrie” and “Gloria” from Bach’s Mass in B-Minor and Poulenc’s Gloria on Dec. 4 with the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra. In the…
The Eastman School of Music has announced the following faculty appointments for the 2009-2010 academic year: Frank Huang, Associate Professor of Violin; Associate Professor of Chamber Music. Frank Huang is the new first violinist for the Ying Quartet, Eastman School’s string quartet-in-residence. First prize winner of the 2003 Naumburg Violin Competition and the 2000 Hannover…
What better way to celebrate Eastman Theatre’s reopening than with a schedule of great concerts? The newly renovated performance hall in the theatre will reopen as Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre with a new sound and ambience come October and the Eastman School of Music has an exciting line-up of fall concerts by guest artists,…
Roger Freitas, associate professor of musicology at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, provides a rare glimpse into the social and political contexts of 17th-century music in his book, Portrait of a Castrato: Politics, Patronage, and Music in the Life of Atto Melani. Born in 1626 into a bourgeois family in Pistoia, Italy,…
Current and new jazz festival scholarship recipients at Eastman posed with festival producers and Eastman School faculty following the annual scholarship concert; from left, Mark Iacona, Chris Ziemba, Nick Finzer, Tim Craig, Harold Danko, Bob Sneider, Gabe Condon, Matthew Krol, Howard Potter, Jeffrey Krol, and John Nugent. (Photo by Don Ver Ploeg, provided by Xerox…
Renowned musician Mitzie Collins and a host of popular folk musicians present the 16th annual “Mitzie Collins and Friends Concert” of world music, a blockbuster favorite among Eastman audiences, presented as part of the Eastman School of Music summer concerts. At 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 15, in Kilbourn Hall, the audience will be treated…
Why do so many beloved musical works—by Mozart, Puccini, Leonard Bernstein, and other composers—evoke cultures and peoples that are distant and somehow “different”? In his new book, Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections, Ralph P. Locke, professor of musicology at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, argues that Western attitudes about foreign cultures and stereotypes…
Eastman School of Music faculty, alumni, and students will play prominently in the line-up for the upcoming Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival. From faculty gigs and performances by Eastman Community Music School ensembles to a special jam session for aspiring jazz players, Eastman musicians will be appearing on various stages during the event June 12…