Simon Shaheen, whose performances range from the classic Arabic repertoire to an energetic fusion of Arab, jazz, Western classical, and Latin American music, will perform with his band Qantara at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, in Kilbourn Hall as part of the Eastman School of Music’s World Music Series. Described as a virtuoso on the…
Organist Ulrika Davidsson, violinist Christine Hauptly, and soprano Elizabeth Phillips join forces to kick off a new season of Italian Baroque Organ Showcase concerts at the Memorial Art Gallery on Sunday, Sept. 16. Their hour-long recital, at 5:30 p.m. in the Gallery’s Fountain Court, features music by Italian and German masters including Vivaldi, Alessandro Scarlatti,…
Eastman School of Music faculty are renowned soloists and chamber musicians who fill concert halls around the world, and recitals in the School’s Kilbourn Hall are an important part of their performing schedules. The Eastman Faculty Artist Series gives local music lovers the opportunity to catch these internationally lauded artists on their own home turf.…
Come September, the Rochester community will hear world-class music making by students, faculty, and guest artists at the Eastman School of Music almost every day of the week. From classical to New Music, from American Jazz to World Music, and with headliners like the Canadian Brass and Turtle Island String Quartet, the fall season is…
The Eastman-Rochester Chorus is holding auditions for its 2007-2008 season, with openings for all voice parts. Auditions are open to all singers in the greater Rochester area. The chorus is scheduled to perform Bruckner’s Mass in E Minor with the Eastman Wind Ensemble on Dec. 1 and 7; Santoro’s Symphony no. 4 with the Rochester…
The University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music has been named the “Hottest Music School” in the 2008 Kaplan/Newsweek “How to Get into College” guide. The Eastman School was one of 25 schools selected as noteworthy for offering top academic programs and also for generating “extra buzz” because of recent events or trend-setting initiatives. The…
On Monday, July 9, a massive shipping container arrived in downtown Rochester following a month-long, 4,000-mile, sea-and-land journey from Sweden. Carefully loaded inside were all the mechanical parts and the parts of the case for the city’s newest instrument: a 15-ton pipe organ to be built inside Christ Church. Workers unloaded and carried the pieces…
Karl Stabnau of Brighton is this year’s recipient of the Rochester International Jazz Festival/Eastman School of Music scholarship. He will start his studies in jazz saxophone at Eastman School and in physics in the University’s Colleges of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering this fall. For the past four years, Stabnau has taken lessons at the Eastman…
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Musicians from the Eastman School of Music are on the bill of the upcoming JVC Jazz Festival in New York City and will be participating in the North Sea Jazz Festival next month in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Reflecting the prize-winning caliber of Eastman’s jazz ensembles, a special Eastman Jazz Performance Workshop Honors Unit…