ROCHESTER, NY — The Eastman School of Music has plenty to crow about this spring, as a bumper crop of its talented students recently have won or are entering some of the world’s most prestigious instrumental music competitions. Pianist Thomas Rosenkranz Wins American Pianists Association Award Thomas Rosenkranz, a 26-year old doctoral student of Nelita…
ROCHESTER, NY — Down Beat, one of the country’s most respected jazz magazines, has selected pianist Harold Danko, chair of the Eastman School of Music’s Jazz and Contemporary Media department, as one of only three recipients of its 12th annual "Down Beat Achievement Awards for Jazz Education." The honor is announced in the June issue…
ROCHESTER, NY — The Eastman School of Music has appointed composer Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez to its faculty as associate professor of composition, effective July 1, 2003. Dr. Sanchez-Gutierrez comes to Eastman from the faculty of San Francisco State University, where he taught theory and composition since 1995. Born in Mexico City, Sanchez-Gutierrez received his undergraduate degree…
ROCHESTER, NY — Music lovers across America will have the chance to get to know the versatile pianist Tony Caramia a whole lot better in May. That’s because the Eastman School of Music Professor of Piano — acclaimed as a classical, jazz, and ragtime pianist — will be the featured guest on Marian McPartland’s Piano…
ROCHESTER, NY — Award-winning composer and lyricist Charles Strouse — perhaps best known for his smash hit musical Annie — will return to his alma mater, the Eastman School of Music, next month to address the School’s graduating class of 2003. The annual commencement ceremony for undergraduate and master’s degree students will begin at 11:30…
ROCHESTER, NY — The stages of the Eastman School of Music will reverberate with the music of internationally acclaimed composer Luciano Berio — including a New York premiere — as the School celebrates the innovative Italian musician with a festival in his honor. An unparalleled leader in the thinking, development, and creation of music from…
ROCHESTER, NY — The Eastman School of Music concludes its 2002-2003 World Music Series with a performance by the School’s own Gamelan Lila Muni (“orchestra of heavenly sound”), a traditional percussion orchestra of gongs, drums, metallophones, and flutes from the Indonesian island of Bali. The concert, which features sacred and secular Balinese music — as…
ROCHESTER, NY — A classic by Shakespeare — with a decidedly modern twist — comes to life this spring as Eastman Opera Theatre presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream, an opera by Benjamin Britten. Performances will be at 8 p.m., Thursday, April 3 through Saturday, April 5, and at 2 p.m., Sunday, April 6, in Eastman…
ROCHESTER, NY — Formed just last fall, the Eastman Youth Jazz Ensemble has been selected as one of the top 15 bands from around the nation — and one of only two from New York State — in the Eighth Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival, sponsored by Jazz at Lincoln…