Organist and DMA Candidate Thomas Gaynor Wins First Prize in St. Albans International Organ Festival Competition Eastman School of Music DMA and Artist Certificate candidate Thomas Gaynor has won First Prize Interpretation and Audience Prize in the 2017 St. Albans International Organ Festival Competition, one of the leading competitions in the world. The competition was…
Eastman Masterclass to Give Aspiring Conductors an Opportunity to Enhance Their Skills Up-and-coming orchestral conductors will have an opportunity to sharpen their skills at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music during a conducting masterclass on Friday, October 20, and Saturday, October 21. Professor of Conducting and Ensembles Neil Varon will lead the program,…
Voices, Rochester’s professional chamber chorus, will perform “My Spirit Sang All Day”, a concert of British choral works, on Sunday, July 16, at 3:00 p.m. in Hatch Recital Hall at the Eastman School of Music, 433 East Main Street. The concert, part of the Summer at Eastman Concert Series, will be conducted by Voices music…
Michael Stefiuk, an experienced leader in the orchestral field, has been named the Director of Concert Activities at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester. He will direct all aspects of the Eastman School of Music’s Concert Office and will provide artistic and programming direction for our various presentation series (e.g. Eastman…
Five students have been named this year’s recipients of the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival/Eastman School of Music (XRIJF/ESM) Jazz Scholarship. The students hail from Maine, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The scholarship program is sponsored by XRIJF producers John Nugent and Marc Iacona and is funded by proceeds from the annual festival. The…
Media Contact: Rick Kessel, 585-274-1052, rkessel@esm.rochester.edu Eastman School of Music musicians — current students, faculty, staff, and alumni, as well as students and faculty from the Eastman Community Music School (ECMS) — will be appearing throughout the 2017 Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (XRIJF). This year’s festival runs June 23 through July 1 at…
Media Contact: Olga Krayterman Shupyatskaya, okrayter@esm.rochester.edu, 585-274-1563 Several Eastman School of Music graduates, each already an established performing artist, will reunite to present a local summer concert premiering a new work by an Eastman composer Jennifer Bellor on July 2 in Kilbourn Hall. Building on the success of a similar concert last year, “Sonic Cluster…
Two Eastman School of Music students, recent graduates Alexandra Cohen and Dovas Lietuvninkas, were award Fulbright Study/Research Grants and will spend the 2017-2018 year in Europe. Cohen, a dual degree major who received a Bachelor of Arts degree in German and a Bachelor of Music degree in Musical Arts during commencement ceremonies Sunday, May 21,…
Retiring faculty members were honored at a reception May 11 on Cominsky Promenade, where their official portraits will be placed along those of other retired faculty. Feted were: Professor of Piano Barry Snyder, 47 years of service from 1970 to 2017. Snyder received his Bachelor of Applied Piano with a Performer’s Certificate in Piano, an…