Several graduates and a faculty member of the Eastman School of Music have received nominations in the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.’s 61st GRAMMY Awards: Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: Steve Gadd (BM68), The Steve Gadd Band Best Jazz Vocal Album: The Subject Tonight is Love, with Gary Versace, Associate Professor of Jazz…
Eastman Community Music School (ECMS) will host its annual ‘Winterfest” Saturday, December 15 at the Eastman School of Music in several concert halls and classrooms across the campus. Each year since 1998, the Eastman Community Music School showcases the talent and musicianship of its students during an annual celebration of the winter season. An extravaganza…
MEDIA CONTACT: Sandra Knispel at sandra.knispel@rochester.edu, 585.200.7571 (cell) A culmination of Rochester’s 200th anniversary celebration of Frederick Douglass’s birth What? *Renowned Yale University historian and Douglass biographer David Blight will speak about Frederick Douglass’s life in Rochester *Live performance by two Eastman School of Music students (Jonathan Rhodes, tenor, and Lee Wright, piano) of…
The Faculty Artist Series presents Eastman Virtuosi Saturday, December 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. The performance is made up of faculty members Mikhail Kopelman, violin; Steven Doane, cello; Alexander Kobrin, piano; and George Taylor, viola, with additional violinist Willa Finck. The group will be playing Shostakovich’s Quintet…
The Faculty Artist Series presents pianist Bill Dobbins, Professor of Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media, Monday, December 3, at 7:30 p.m., in Hatch Recital Hall, at the Eastman School of Music. Bill Dobbins is professor of jazz studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he teaches the jazz composing and…
The Faculty Artist Series presents Marina Lomazov, Professor of Piano at Eastman, Saturday, December 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall. The concert features Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition with additional works by Alexander Scriabin, John Fitz Rogers, and Nikolai Kapustin. Praised by critics as “a diva of the piano” (Salt Lake City Tribune), “a…
The Kilbourn Concert Series presents New York Polyphony on December 11, 2018, at 7:30 p.m., in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. New York Polyphony consists of: Geoffrey Williams, countertenor; Steven Caldicott Wilson, tenor; Christopher Dylan Herbert, baritone; and Craig Phillips, bass. Praised for a “rich, natural sound that’s larger and more complex…
Grammy-award winning jazz pianist Danilo Pérez will be a visiting guest artist at the Eastman School of Music this month. He will perform alongside the Eastman Jazz Ensemble on their concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 29, in Kilbourn Hall, under the direction of Bill Dobbins, Associate Professor of Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media at…
Third Thursday concert series with Eastman’s Italian Baroque organ will be featuring Italian opera of the Nineteenth Century this November. This popular music genre had a vibrant life of its own outside the Italian theater, and the organ in the church became the vehicle of this music for a larger number of people who could…