A new series of monthly recitals featuring vocal and instrumental performance majors from the Eastman School of Music starts this month in the stunning and historic St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church. The first concert in the “Eastman at St. Michael’s Series” will be presented at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 25, and features harpist Hillary…
Rochester, N.Y. — A local company is putting world-class music education in the hands of students who may not otherwise be able to attain it. First Niagara has given the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music a $10,000 gift to support music lessons and mentorship of Rochester City School District students, many of whom…
Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley will appear in Rochester on Sunday, Jan. 25, at 3 p.m., performing in concert with the Clinch Mountain Boys in Eastman Theatre. Often described as “the elder statesman of bluegrass music,” Stanley is renowned for his banjo picking skills and distinctive tenor voice. Stanley and his late brother Carter first took…
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Mozart was an entrepreneur: without a patron or permanent paying job at a church or royal court, the 18th century master made a living from a variety of composing and performing assignments across Europe. Fast forward 200 years, and music school students in the United States are not so different. Approximately 330,000…
Members of the Arabesque Winds quintet are, from left: Deidre Huckabay, Elizabeth Spector, Sophia Goluses, Isabel Kim, and Eryn Bauer. Photos by Gerry Szymanski. # # # Arabesque Winds, a woodwind quintet of Eastman School of Music musicians, has won the Harvard Musical Association’s 2009 Arthur W. Foote Prize, the ensemble’s second major award this…
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. 11, in the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall. Since it was founded in 1977, the William Warfield Scholarship Fund has provided…
Students and ensembles of all ages at the Eastman Community Music School will be showcased during the School’s 11th annual “Holiday Homecoming” series of concerts beginning at 9:15 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 20. The performances, many of which include holiday favorites, are free and open to the public and feature ensembles made up of middle school…
Gabrielle Monachino, an Eastman Community Music School student, is heading to Washington, D.C., to present a 90-minute concert of Christmas music at the White House Holiday Open House on Monday, Dec. 15. The 16-year-old violinist was selected based on a DVD of a performance she presented in Eastman’s Kilbourn Hall which she submitted to the…
Paul O’Dette, Professor of Lute at the Eastman School of Music and an internationally respected performer and scholar of Renaissance and Baroque music, has been nominated for his fifth Grammy Award. He is up against two Eastman alumni in the Best Opera Recording category: soprano Renée Fleming (MM ’83) and tenor Anthony Dean Griffey (MM…