From a new work by an internationally celebrated composer to new works written by Eastman School of Music students, numerous premieres will highlight the fourth annual Women in Music Festival. And using words, instruments ranging from a carillon to a marimba, and even dance, more than 70 artists will celebrate women’s achievements and contributions in…
The Afro-Brazilian ensemble Ologundê brings its exciting and dazzling synthesis of music, dance, and martial arts to Kilbourn Hall at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 25. Performing as part of the World Music Series at the Eastman School of Music, the ensemble will present a diverse repertoire which includes candomblé, a synthesis of religious performance rituals;…
Pieter Wispelwey, the first cellist to receive the Netherlands Music Prize for promising young musicians, will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 18, as part of the Kilbourn Concert Series at the Eastman School of Music. Equally comfortable playing metal- and gut-stringed modern cellos or four and five-stringed baroque cellos, Wispelwey performs a repertoire ranging…
Tenor saxophonist Rich Perry will be the guest artist with the Eastman New Jazz Ensemble, directed by Dave Rivello, at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, in the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall. The concert is free and open to the public. Perry has been living and performing in New York City since 1976. In…
Musicians from Marlboro, the touring extension of the renowned Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, as part of the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Concert Series. The touring program spotlights exceptional young musicians from the summer festival and seasoned artists in chamber music programs of rarely-heard works and…
The beautiful pictures from the High Baroque that surround the Italian organ in the Memorial Art Gallery create the perfect backdrop for the next Organ Showcase Concert at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17. “Musical Pictures from the High Baroque” will explore the importance of visual images to Baroque composers. From Biblical stories to Greek classical…
Eastman School of Music alumna Maria Schneider (MM ’85) won a Grammy Award February 10 in the Best Instrumental Composition category for her work “Cerulean Skies.” The win is the second Grammy for the jazz composer, who won the 2005 award for Best Ensemble Album for Concert in the Garden, the first Grammy-winning recording with…
Roland Vazquez, whose innovative jazz-fusion compositions and concerts have earned praise for three decades, will coach and rehearse ensembles and perform with students as part of his residency at the Eastman School of Music this month. Eastman Chamber Jazz will present a concert of all-Vazquez works on Monday, Feb. 11, and Vazquez will join the…
Local audiences have another opportunity to enjoy the Ying Quartet in performance this season when the Eastman School of Music’s string quartet-in-residence appears at Kilbourn Hall at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 17. The recital will feature new works from composers Sebastian Currier and Lowell Liebermann which were commissioned by the Ying Quartet for its…