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Since its establishment in 1977, the William Warfield Scholarship Fund, Inc. (WWSF) has provided financial aid to more than 50 African American classical singers, including Eastman students and high school-aged performers. Annually, the WWSF holds a benefit concert to spotlight Eastman’s WWSF scholarship recipients. On Sunday, January 22, 2023, at 3:00 PM, their 46th concert…

Each year, the Eastman School of Music and the Beal Institute of Film Music and Contemporary Media present a unique departmental recital. On January 12, 2023, at 8:00 PM in Kilbourn Hall, Visual Music 5.0 presents the Beal Institute’s second-year graduate students in a live-to-picture staging of their original compositions. Each composer will conduct the…

Gateways Music Festival in association with Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester is pleased to announce that Gateways Music Festival has received a $1.2M grant from the New York City-based Bay & Paul Foundations.  The Bay & Paul Foundations, a Gateways supporter since 2019, was a lead sponsor of the Gateways Orchestra’s…

Robert O. “Robin” Lehman, an internationally renowned Rochester-based glass artist and documentary filmmaker, has established the Marie Rolf Dean of Graduate Studies Endowed Fund at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. This gift creates two named positions: the Marie Rolf Dean of Graduate Studies and the Robert O. Lehman Graduate Fellowship. Both honor…

As the year draws to a close and we look ahead to 2023, we are delighted to spend the winter months in Eastman’s outstanding concert venues–Kodak Hall, Kilbourn Hall, and Hatch Recital Hall–presenting the music of world-class musicians. “This new year, make the resolution to immerse yourself in great music,” offers Mike Stefiuk, Director of Concert…