Musicians, scholars, and individuals around the world will have free online access to more rare and unique scores in the collections of the Eastman School of Music’s Sibley Music Library as a result of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The NEH has awarded the Sibley Music Library a two-year $273,820 grant…
Music by lutenist Dieter Hennings, cellist Matt Huber, organist Mark Edwards, and mezzo soprano Kate Maroney will highlight the next concert in the “Eastman at St. Michael’s Series.” The concert, part of a series of monthly recitals, will be presented at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 22, in the historic St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church.…
Eastman School of Music junior Zhang Zuo is one of only 30 pianists from around the world selected to compete in the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition this May. Founded in 1962 in honor of Van Cliburn, the American winner of the first Tchaikovsky International Competition, the quadrennial event has been described as “the…
An interactive concert, two silent film shorts, readings by local poets of their works, premieres of new compositions, and performances in the community are just some of the events highlighting the fifth annual Women in Music Festival at the Eastman School of Music. Running from Monday, March 23, through Friday, March 27, the festival celebrates…
Eastman School of Music sophomore Nicholas Fitton has been named a winner in the YouTube Symphony Orchestra Project and will be flown to New York City next month to participate in a classical music summit and a live performance in Carnegie Hall. Fitton will perform the piccolo part in composer Tan Dun’s “The Internet Symphony”…
The Eastman Youth Jazz Orchestra, a 23-member ensemble of the Eastman Community Music School (ECMS), won the Big Band Category in the first annual Charles Mingus High School Competition. The competition was part of a three-day festival held at the Manhattan School of Music Friday, Feb. 20, to Sunday, Feb. 22, celebrating Mingus, a renowned…
Acclaimed Norwegian organist Jon Laukvik will present a recital on the Craighead-Saunders Organ in Christ Church (Episcopal) at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27. In 1977, Laukvik was awarded both the First Prize and the Bach Prize in the International Organ Competition in Nuremberg. The same year, he was also a prize winner in the International…
Eastman School of Music sophomore Nicholas Fitton has been selected as a finalist for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra and the chance to perform under world-renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. Billed as the world’s first collaborative online orchestra, the YouTube Symphony Orchestra Project has two components: the creation of a symphony performance from video submissions, and…
The Eastman School of Music community was shocked and saddened to learn of the untimely death of prominent jazz saxophonist Gerry Niewood in an airplane crash on Thursday, Feb. 12. Mr. Niewood earned his Bachelor of Music degree in music education, with an emphasis in saxophone, at Eastman in 1970. Best known for his association…