ROCHESTER, NY – The prominent composer John Adams, whose orchestral works make him the most frequently performed living American composer, will pay a visit to the Eastman School of Music from March 17-19. In addition to working with composition students and presenting a master class at the School, he will attend rehearsals and a concert…
ROCHESTER, NY – Chicago Symphony Orchestra Resident Conductor William Eddins, who has rapidly established himself as one of America’s most promising young conductors, returns to his alma mater, the Eastman School of Music, to guest conduct the Eastman Philharmonia at 8 p.m., Friday, March 2, in the Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.). Admission is free.…
ROCHESTER, NY — The electrifying sounds of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, hailed by Billboard magazine as “a living testament to the beauty and artistry of big-band music,” will fill Eastman Theatre at 8 p.m., Saturday, February 24, as part of the Eastman School of Music’s “Day and Night of Jazz.” The concert is presented in…
ROCHESTER, NY – A rarely heard but historically significant instrument soon will join the Eastman School of Music’s collection of early instruments, the result of the School’s commissioning of a strict reproduction of a rare 18th-century pedal clavichord. (The original, built in 1766, is housed in the instrument collection of the Grassi Museum in Leipzig,…
ROCHESTER, NY – The Eastman School of Music will be the site for one of four regional auditions and the final judging in the 2001 Lotte Lenya Competition for Singers, sponsored by the Kurt Weill Foundation. Regional auditions will take place on Saturday, February 3, beginning at 10:30 a.m. in Kilbourn Hall (26 Gibbs St.),…
ROCHESTER, NY – A postage stamp is causing a lot of commotion at the Eastman School of Music. A special ceremony celebrating the "Rochester premiere" of a new U.S. postage stamp – based on Maxfield Parrish’s famous painting Interlude, which has graced Eastman Theatre since its opening in 1922 – will be held at 11…
Rochester, NY – Henry Fogel, who has led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through more than a decade of successful expansion and initiatives, will be the next presenter in the Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership Program Guest Speaker Series at the Eastman School of Music. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, takes…
ROCHESTER, NY – The internationally acclaimed Tokyo String Quartet, which has performed on most of the world’s stages and has received seven Grammy nominations, will perform in concert at 3 p.m., Sunday, February 4, in the Hochstein Performance Hall at the Hochstein Music School (50 N. Plymouth Ave.). The concert, featuring the works of Mozart,…
ROCHESTER, NY – It’s been a rewarding semester for Eastman School of Music student composer Todd Coleman: Since September, the 29-year-old doctoral student has received a substantial commission and won an online composition competition – resulting in a total of $8,000. In September, Coleman was one of eight composers from around the country who received…