A work by Jairo Duarte-López and Michaela Eremiášová will be performed by New York City Opera this weekend. Photo by Gerry Szymanski. # # # Two Eastman School of Music graduate composition students, Michaela Eremiášová and Jairo Duarte-López, will have their work featured in New York City Opera’s acclaimed “VOX: Showcasing American Opera” series. The…
Four young singing and acting hopefuls will be chosen in upcoming auditions to share the stage with Eastman School of Music students for a production of The Secret Garden this fall. The musical, which premiered on Broadway in 1991, is based on a popular 1909 novel of an orphan and her sickly cousin whose own…
John Celentano, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chamber Music at the Eastman School of Music, died Monday, April 13. He was 96 years old. A violinist, Professor Celentano had a long and notable career as a performing artist, teacher, lecturer, writer, and broadcast commentator. He taught violin and chamber music at the Eastman School for 35…
Rochester audiences will experience a colorful program of traditional and newly composed musical works for Balinese gamelan as the Eastman School of Music’s Gamelan Lila Muni presents its annual concert. Translated as “orchestra of heavenly sound,” Gamelan Lila Muni is a percussion ensemble of metallophones, gongs, drums, and flutes that presents music and dance from…
A program of the finest but seldom-heard French Baroque sacred works will be presented by Voices, Rochester’s professional choral chamber ensemble, at historic St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 26. The performance, part of the “Eastman at St. Michael’s” series of monthly recitals, will precede the Church’s annual Homecoming Mass, at…
Steven Laitz, associate professor of theory and affiliate faculty of the Chamber Music Department at the Eastman School of Music, has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy. He will serve as editor from Volume 24 (2010) through Volume 27 (2013). “This appointment is a real tribute to Steve’s standing in the…
Members of the Red Line Saxophone Quartet are, from left: Brandon Kies, Douglas O’Connor, Gao Qun, and Quinn Lewis. Photos by Gerry Szymanski. # # # The Red Line Sax Quartet recently won first prize in the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Chamber Music Competition. The group, which includes Eastman students juniors Brandon Kies, alto…
Trombonists from the Eastman School of Music, Ithaca College, and Penn State University will help open the Rochester Red Wings’ home season as part of the “Frühling Posaunen Festival” (Springtime Trombone Festival) this Saturday, April 11. The annual festival, which alternates among the schools and is in its 20th year, will feature a free public…
Two luminaries in the performance of Early Music, soprano Ellen Hargis and lutenist and Eastman School of Music Professor Paul O’Dette, will present a recital of Italian Baroque songs and music in Kilbourn Hall at 8 p.m. Friday, April 24. The evening’s repertoire, ranging from an expressive cantata based on the Orpheus legend to a…