Eight voice and opera students at the Eastman School of Music will take center stage in the finals of the Friends of Eastman Opera Voice Competition at 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 17, in Kilbourn Hall. The annual event, which is free and open to the public, gives local audiences the exciting opportunity to hear rising…
The Eastman Horn Choir, under the direction of Peter Kurau, associate professor of horn at the Eastman School of Music, will present two concerts commemorating the feast day of St. Hubert. Both events, at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, at St. Andrew’s Church, and at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, in the Eastman School of…
The Eastman School of Music and Bowling Green State University will present the first production in modern times of Francesco Cavalli’s 1642 La virtù de’ strali d’Amore, a groundbreaking and highly entertaining early opera. The work will be performed in Rochester on Nov. 9, shortly after its North American premiere in Ohio. Translated as “The…
Tuba Mirum, the Eastman School of Music’s tuba and euphonium ensemble, has been invited to perform at the International Tuba and Euphonium Conference next summer in Cincinnati. The conference, which is held biannually, is attended by the top tuba and euphonium artists and ensembles from around the world. “It’s a great honor for the ensemble…
For the fifth time since 1992, Eastman School of Music Professor of Musicology Ralph P. Locke has won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music writing. The award is presented annually by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. The new honor cites his article “Liszt on the Artist in Society,” which…
After just one year in existence, the Eastman School of Music Clarinet Choir is getting invitations and going on the road. On Sunday, Oct. 28, the 15-member ensemble travels to Buffalo to perform as part of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s Community Night Concert Series. The Eastman students will warm up the audience with Rossini’s “Italian…
The performance of one of his own works will highlight the inaugural ceremony marking the investiture of Douglas Lowry as Dean of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester. The ceremony, at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, in Eastman Theatre, will also feature the presentation of the honorary degree Doctor of Music…
Concerts, lectures, and a tour of locally historic St. Michael’s Church highlight a four-day festival devoted to the life and work of Alfred Mann, the late Eastman School of Music professor and world-renowned scholar of Baroque choral music and the history of music theory. A collaboration of the Eastman School of Music and Publick Musick,…
Renowned Rochester musician Mitzie Collins, a member of the faculty of the Eastman Community Music School, has been named the recipient of the 2007 Artist Award for Music by the Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester. A performer of Celtic and traditional American folk music, Collins is known nationally and internationally as a virtuoso…