ROCHESTER, NY – Felice Kuan, a 16-year-old from Menands, NY, was named the first-place winner last night in the Eastman School of Music’s Fourth Annual Young Artists International Piano Competition. This competition for students ages 14-18 is part of Eastman’s Summer Piano Festival, and attracted 27 competitors from around the world. As top winner, Kuan…
ROCHESTER, NY – The Eastman School of Music fared exceptionally well at the recent American Guild of Organists (AGO) national convention held earlier this month in Seattle. Doctoral candidate Ji-Yoen Choi, currently a student of Eastman Associate Professor of Organ David Higgs, was the first-prize winner in the National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance…
ROCHESTER, NY – The late opera singer, recitalist, and folklorist Dorothea Dix Lawrence (1899-1979) will be the subject of an upcoming lecture at the Eastman School of Music titled "Musically Mapping America: The Career of Dorothea Dix Lawrence." The presentation is at 7 p.m. Thursday, August 3, in Howard Hanson Hall at the School, 26…
ROCHESTER, NY — A gift of $3,263,000 from the Catherine Filene Shouse Foundation will go to the Eastman School of Music to support and extend the School’s innovative Arts Leadership Program. The funding, which will be given over three years, is the foundation’s first endowment grant as well as the largest single grant ever received…
ROCHESTER, NY – The Eastman School of Music announces the following new faculty appointments: Hans Davidsson will be taking a position on the organ faculty in January 2001. Davidsson is founder and director of the Göteborg Organ Art center (GOArt), an international center for research in performance practice and historical instrument building. He also is…
ROCHESTER, NY – Again this year, singers of all ages and abilities are invited to take part in five Eastman-Rochester "Summer Sings," a series of choral music reading sessions presented by the Eastman School of Music. Held on Tuesday evenings in Kilbourn Hall (26 Gibbs St.) beginning at 7:30 p.m. (with a 6:30 p.m. read-through),…
ROCHESTER, NY – It may be summer, but School and great music are in session at the Eastman School of Music. The School’s Community Education Division (CED) presents its annual summer concert series, as well as several other concerts connected to its Summer Session programs and workshops. The concerts – which range from classical to…
ROCHESTER, NY – Before flying to Frankfurt, Germany, for a 10-day, five-concert tour of Germany and Holland with conductor John Marcellus, the Eastman Trombone Choir will present a free concert of its tour program in the Main Hall of the Eastman School of Music (26 Gibbs St.) at noon, Thursday, June 29. The performance is…
EASTMAN NAMES NEW DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR ROCHESTER, NY – The Eastman School of Music recently appointed Bruce Van Hise of Rochester as its new director of development and campaign manager, effective July 17. In this position, he will direct the School’s overall development efforts, with a special focus on the management of major fundraising campaigns. Van…