ROCHESTER, NY — Friday lunch hours at Midtown Plaza are about to get jazzed up a bit, courtesy of the Eastman School of Music jazz department. Beginning in December, and continuing through May 2003, jazz students from the School will perform in Midtown Plaza’s main plaza area from 12:30-1:30 p.m. on the first and third…
ROCHESTER, NY — The award-winning Eastman Jazz Ensemble presents its much anticipated first concert of the season under its new director, Bill Dobbins, at 8 p.m., Thursday, December 5, in Kilbourn Hall (26 Gibbs St.). Dobbins — an acclaimed jazz conductor, composer, arranger, and performer who taught at Eastman from 1973-1994 — returned to the…
Rochester, NY — Achilles may have been one of the greatest warriors in Greek mythology, but for tenor Robert Swensen, the character is one of great fortune. The internationally acclaimed award-winning singer and associate professor of voice at the Eastman School of Music makes his La Scala debut next month in Milan singing the leading…
ROCHESTER, NY — It will be an anything-but-ordinary Thanksgiving for Eastman School of Music student John Richards. Instead of enjoying turkey and the trimmings of the all-American holiday at home (in Salt Lake City), the 22-year-old violist will be half-a-world-away, east of Turkey — in Armenia, a small country that was part of the former…
ROCHESTER, NY — Eight talented voice/opera students from the Eastman School of Music have been nominated to compete in the second annual voice competition presented by the Friends of Eastman Opera — a volunteer group that supports Eastman Opera students, programs, and productions as well as promotes Eastman Opera Theatre in the Rochester community. The…
ROCHESTER, NY — Ellen Koskoff, professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, has been chosen as one of this year’s ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award winners. These prestigious awards, presented annually by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), recognize excellence in music writing (books, articles, and liner notes) by…
Rochester, NY — The Eastman Chorale, a select graduate and undergraduate ensemble of 60 voices from the Eastman School of Music, conducted by William Weinert, is set for a five-concert Eastern United States tour next month. As is typical of this ensemble, the tour program reflects a wide variety of styles, and includes both a…
ROCHESTER, NY — The University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music has received a prestigious grant from the U.S. Department of Education to serve as the lead U.S. institution in a major international music project that addresses student and faculty exchanges and educational content. The School’s director and dean, James Undercofler, will head the U.S.…
ROCHESTER, NY — The Turk in Italy, an infrequently performed but always enjoyable comic opera by the influential Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, opens Eastman Opera Theatre’s 2002-2003 season. Performances will be at 8 p.m., Thursday-Saturday, October 31-November 2, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, November 3, in Kilbourn Hall (26 Gibbs St.) at the Eastman School…