ROCHESTER, NY — The Eastman School of Music just has announced a new scholarship by multiple Grammy-award winning musician and entertainer Billy Joel, and the worthy recipient is 33-year old Eastman doctoral student Russell Scarbrough. The Billy Joel Endowment Fund has given Eastman a generous gift of $320,000. The majority of that gift ($314,000) will…
Rochester, NY – Students in the Eastman School of Music’s jazz programs responded to the Hurricane Katrina tragedy with a special perspective-after all, New Orleans is known as the Birthplace of Jazz. The Eastman students decided to turn their annual free Eastman Jazz Showcase into a benefit, with a suggested donation of $5. They chose…
ROCHESTER, NY — What a difference a weekend can make. Between midnight on Friday, September 2 and noon on Monday, September 5, hundreds of miles north of the flood-ravaged Gulf Coast, musical voices with big hearts at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music transformed grief and frustration into tangible action for three New…
Call this the “connect-the dots” Convocation message. Over the past five months, I encountered three seemingly unrelated items that have oddly come together to form a potent message. One, I served on a panel at the annual conference of the American Symphony Orchestra League (with two other dynamic speakers) on the topic of “Making the…
ROCHESTER, NY — After a week of fierce competition in three rounds of judged performances, first prize in the Eastman School of Music’s Eighth Annual Young Artists International Piano Competition was awarded to 17-year old Song-Yuan Tang from Shenyang, China. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle music critic John Pitcher called Tang a “firebrand” who consistently “stole…
Rochester, NY—Sixteen string students from the Eastman School of Music will play in the Hiroshima Peace Concert 2005, a special event that takes place in Phoenix Hall at the International Conference Center in Hiroshima, Japan on Friday, August 5 th. More than 180 people—including an orchestra, chorus and soloists—will perform Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. The…
ROCHESTER, NY – The Eastman School of Music will become a battleground of fluttering ivory keys and brilliant arpeggios next month when young pianists from around the world come to Rochester to compete for fame and fortune. The ninth-annual Young Artists International Piano Competition – a weeklong event of master classes, guest recitals, and judged…
ROCHESTER, NY — The world will seem a little smaller this week when the Eastman School of Music presents three concerts of music from around the globe. Mandolins, dulcimers, drums, and gongs will resonate inside the School and outside in the park in a series of concerts that highlight some of the world’s most beautiful…
ROCHESTER, NY — For the fourth consecutive year, Canadian Brass — long considered the world’s leading brass ensemble — comes to the Eastman School of Music for an exciting weekend workshop (July 8-10). The highlight of the group’s summer visits is a public performance, and last year’s show at Kilbourn Hall was a complete sellout.…