A concert of works by the first woman to receive a master’s degree in composition from a Chinese institution, and who is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, will cap a two-day event on music and globalization at the Eastman School of Music. The event, at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20,…
Eastman School of Music musicians—faculty, students, and alumni—will be prominent at this year’s Chihuahua International Festival: Associate professor Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez is the festival’s composer-in-residence; the Eastman BroadBand Ensemble is the resident ensemble for the festival’s contemporary music component; guitarist Dieter Hennings and the woodwind quintet Arabesque Winds will each present a recital; and the JACK…
Key leaders from 21 of the country’s largest orchestras have been invited to come to Eastman School of Music on Monday, Sept. 8, to discuss the impact of Polyphonic.org, a website for professional orchestra musicians and aspiring students. Launched more than two years ago by Eastman’s Institute for Music Leadership, the site offers news and…
This fall, three musicians have joined Eastman School of Music’s incoming freshman class as this year’s recipients of the Rochester International Jazz Festival (RIJF)/Eastman School of Music scholarship. Adrian DiMatteo and Evan Henry of Rochester and Daniel Ziemann of Amherst are the latest students to earn the awards sponsored by RIJF producers John Nugent and…
The Eastman School of Music has announced the following faculty appointments: Michael Burritt, Professor of Percussion. Having performed on four continents and nearly 40 states, Michael Burritt is one of the world’s leading percussion soloists. He is in frequent demand performing concert tours and master classes throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Canada.…
With performances by the Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble and the Ying Quartet, a celebration of one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century, the first concerts on a breathtaking new organ, exciting guest artists, and world-class music making by faculty and students, the Eastman School of Music’s upcoming concert season offers events…
Tie-Dan Yao, 16, of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, was awarded first prize after the final round of the 2008 Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition last night (Friday, Aug. 8) in Kilbourn Hall of the Eastman School of Music. As top winner of the weeklong event for talented 15-to-18-year-old pianists, Tie-Dan Yao receives a cash award…
After three rounds of intense judged competition, six finalists were selected from the field of 23 musical virtuosos in the 2008 Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition. The six will perform a movement of a piano concerto in the final round beginning at 7:30 p.m. tonight (Friday, Aug. 8) in Kilbourn Hall. Finalists are: Xue-Sha…
Twenty-five of the world’s finest young pianists, including an award-winning local teenager who was featured on National Public Radio, will vie for prizes in the Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition next month. The week-long event of adjudicated performances and master classes, all of which are open to the public, begins Saturday, Aug, 2, at…