The eighth annual Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI)Festival will pay tribute to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy on the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The event, which includes the performance of Mendelssohn’s vocal music and complete works for organ in a series of concerts that are open to the public, will be held Thursday, Oct. 29,…
Eastman School of Music singers will share the stage with four talented young performers from the community in The Secret Garden, an Eastman Opera Theatre production that opens Thursday, Nov. 5, for four performances. Based on the popular novel of the same name, the musical features four singing actors alternating in the pivotal roles of…
The Eastman School of Music is hosting this year’s New York State Music Teachers Association Conference Friday, Oct. 16, to Sunday, Oct. 18. The annual event will feature several Eastman faculty members. Professor of Voice Katherine Ciesinski, mezzo-soprano, will present a recital at 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17, in Kilbourn Hall. Her program includes the…
After months of intensive construction, Eastman Theatre, the 1920s theatre that industrialist George Eastman built to teach the love of good music, reopens this fall as a 21st century concert hall. When audiences enter Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre for the first time this week, they will be met with a visual and acoustical transformation…
Omar Faruk Tekbilek, a multi-instrument virtuoso born in Turkey, and his ensemble will perform the first concert of the 2009-2010 World Music Series at the Eastman School of Music on Tuesday, Oct. 13. The concert, at 8 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall, will feature a range of music from traditional Sufi and folk music to contemporary…
In what promises to be a memorable and moving concert, jazz greats Chuck Mangione, Lew Soloff, and Pat LaBarbera will join musicians from the Eastman School of Music to pay tribute to the life and musical legacy of saxophonist Gerry Niewood. The event, at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre,…
The internationally renowned, award-winning Ying Quartet kicks off the 2009-2010 Eastman-Ranlet Series on Sunday, Oct. 11, at 3 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. This concert marks an exciting new era for the Ying Quartet with the Eastman debut of their new violinist, Frank Huang, and the start of a two-season-long…
A program of dramatic works presented by the Eastman Philharmonia launches a new era of Eastman School of Music performances in the transformed Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. While the hall retains its grand elegance, renovations will improve the audience’s and performers’ concert experience and enjoyment of the music chosen for the first Eastman School…
Howard Hanson directed the Eastman School of Music for 40 years. Handpicked by founder George Eastman to assume the leadership in 1924, a mere three years after the School opened, the composer shaped the institution as a reflection of his educational philosophy and musical vision. The history of the Eastman School under Hanson and his…