Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and former Eastman School of Music faculty member Joseph Schwantner returns to Rochester to discuss his work with students and to attend rehearsals and performances of two of his works. Schwantner, who taught at Eastman from 1970 until 2001, will be in residence at the school from Thursday, Dec. 6, through Monday,…
Eastman School of Music students will present a concert of holiday fare on the Italian Baroque Organ in the Memorial Art Gallery at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16. “Christmas at the Memorial Art Gallery” will feature Buxtehude’s “How Brightly Shines the Morning Star” and Bach’s “In Dulci Jubilo” as well as the popular favorite “Merry…
Rachel Kincaid, a 21-year-old trumpet player and composer at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, has been awarded a prestigious Marshall Scholarship to pursue two advanced degrees in the United Kingdom. She will begin a one-year master’s degree program in trumpet performance next fall at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester,…
Allan Schindler, professor of composition at the Eastman School of Music, has been awarded one of the most prestigious awards in composition, a $10,000 commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University. The Fromm Music Foundation, administered by the music department of Harvard University, was founded by businessman Paul Fromm, founder of the Great…
Eastman musicians are shown rehearsing in Cagliari, Sardinia, for an international music festival earlier this month. Composer and conductor Juan Trigos conducted the ensemble of Eastman students and recent alumni for the performance of Comala, a chamber opera by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, associate professor of composition at Eastman. # # # A group of Eastman School…
Eastman School of Music students Evan Jones, Julia Cramer, and Quinn Patrick were named the winners of this year’s Friends of Eastman Opera voice competition, held November 17 in the School’s Kilbourn Hall. Jones, a baritone, placed first in this year’s competition and was awarded the Lynne Clarke Vocal Prize in the amount of $1,000.…
The Eastman-Rochester Chorus and the Eastman Wind Ensemble will present two free performances next month of Anton Bruckner’s Mass in E Minor, considered a masterpiece of blending Renaissance polyphony—independent melodic parts—with Romantic harmonies. The work, for eight voice parts, was commissioned in 1866 to inaugurate the new Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Linz, Austria.…
The Ying Quartet, the Eastman School of Music’s string quartet-in-residence, will perform in concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 2, in Kilbourn Hall. The concert, featuring the works of Beethoven, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky, is part of the Eastman-Ranlet Series sponsored by the Eastman School of Music. Now in its second decade of performance, the…
A concert of non-stop performances by Eastman School of Music vocal and instrumental ensembles will offer an array of musical styles and give audiences a multisensory experience of “The Gift of Music.” Using the “prism concert” format, in which groups perform in uninterrupted succession in different locations around the concert hall, the event surrounds listeners…