Eastman School of Music, of the University of Rochester, is proud to announce two full-time faculty appointments to the Woodwinds, Brass and Percussion department for the 2023-24 academic year: Justin Benavidez, Associate Professor of Tuba Andrew McCandless, Associate Professor of Trumpet “The Winds, Brass and Percussion Department of the Eastman School of Music welcomes Justin…
Eastman School of Music, of the University of Rochester, is proud to announce a new full-time piano faculty appointment for the 2023-24 academic year: Ran Dank, Associate Professor of Piano. “The Piano Department is very excited to welcome Ran Dank to the faculty at Eastman,” shares Piano Department Chair Alan Chow. “He is a brilliant…
Jazz trumpeter Ingrid Jensen visits the Eastman School of Music to work with students and perform with the Eastman Jazz Ensemble and Eastman New Jazz Ensemble on Monday, May 1 at 7:30 in Kilbourn Hall. The visit serves double duty for the Vancouver native: she also gets to spend time with her sister, Christine Jensen,…
This year at Eastman, about 330 students are enrolled in chamber music groups. Most perform this weekend in Eastman’s Chamber Music Extravaganza, a multiday chamber music festival where audience members can spend full days catching a variety of chamber groups. The concerts primarily take place in the acoustically brilliant and intimate Hatch Recital Hall and…
When bass-baritone singer Jan Opalach came to the Eastman School of Music 15 years ago, he had been a principal opera singer with the New York City Opera for 30 years. New York City Opera at the time was going through fiscal troubles (and eventually folded) and coming to Eastman “just dovetailed into what had…
When Wegman Family Professor of Violin Renée Jolles first came to Eastman as a faculty member in 2013, she was surprised to find a lack of Rochester-area concerts that observe Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). She launched an annual Holocaust Remembrance Day concert in 2014 at the Eastman School of Music to pay tribute to…
In this weeklong Summer@Eastman program, students study the trumpet under the instruction of world-class faculty. Summer@Eastman’s Marketing Assistant Joyce Tseng talked with Eastman Summer Trumpet Institute Director Wesley Nance (Second Trumpet, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra; Trumpet Faculty, Eastman Community Music School) to learn more about the program. JT: Please tell us about the objectives and focus…
If Music Be the Food… (IMBTF), the chamber music series benefitting Rochester’s Foodlink, will conclude its fourteenth season with a live concert on Sunday, April 23 at 4:00 p.m. from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Road, 14607. Donations can be made online here or by scanning the QR code and checks can be mailed…
Eastman School of Music will host the final round of the Kurt Weill Foundation’s Lotte Lenya Competition, as well as its 25th Anniversary Gala Concert, on Saturday, April 29, 2023 as part of a celebratory weekend of events at the Lenya Competition’s original home. The Gala Concert invites past prizewinners of the Lenya Competition to…