Eastman School of Music faculty, alumni, and guests will gather on Sunday, March 26, in Hatch Recital Hall to commemorate the life and musical contributions of internationally renowned concert pianist and teacher Fernando Laires. Professor Laires, who died Sept. 9, 2016, was Professor of Piano at Eastman from 1992 until his retirement in 2004. His…
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Petar Kodzas has been named Associate Dean of the Eastman Community Music School, it was announced today by Jamal Rossi, the Joan and Martin Messinger Dean of the Eastman School of Music. In this capacity Kodzas, who has served in numerous teaching and administrative positions at Eastman since 1998, will oversee all programs and…
Violinist Irvine Arditti, lauded for his charismatic artistry and for his championship of new music, will join the Eastman School of Music’s Musica Nova for the ensemble’s concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 8, in Kilbourn Hall. Arditti will perform on Brian Ferneyhough’s Terrain in a program that includes Hans Abrahamsen’s Winternacht and Helmut Lachenmann’s…
The great keyboard masterpieces of the 17th century explored music’s power to invent and imagine. Works by both well-known and lesser-known composers of that time will be presented by organist Annette Richards as part of the Eastman School of Music’s “Third Thursday Concerts” series on the Italian Baroque Organ at the Memorial Art Gallery. “The…
A benefit recital for Eastman School of Music’s Renée Fleming Endowed Scholarship Fund will feature the school’s alumni and current students and a guest artist, who will join the retired director of the University of Rochester’s Wilmot Cancer Center in a New York City performance that also marks the active octogenarian’s birthday. George Abraham, whose…
As part of a year-long celebration of the centennial of women’s suffrage in New York State, the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music and Susan B. Anthony Center are collaborating on “Women’s Voices,” a special concert featuring the premieres of composers Lori Laitman’s and Jennifer Mitchell’s new works, commissioned especially for the occasion. The…
The Eastman School of Music’s Eastman Wind Ensemble has released a new CD that features works by Puerto Rico’s best-known composer, five-time Grammy nominee Roberto Sierra. Titled Sierra Live: Music by Roberto Sierra, the recording has earned praise from Fanfare magazine for performance of the works “at the highest possible artistic level,” noting that the…
Soprano Laura Sanders won the Friends of Eastman Opera’s annual competition for Eastman School of Music voice and opera students, held February 10 in the School’s Kilbourn Hall. She received the Lynne Clarke Vocal Prize in the amount of $1,500, donated by John Clarke in honor of his late wife, a founding member of the…
In the 19th century, Franz Liszt was a “rock star.” Composer, arranger, transcriber, promoter, author, pianist who drove female audience members into a frenzy—“Lisztomania,” it was called by German poet Heinrich Heine—the artist revolutionized performance with his virtuosity. Generally considered the greatest pianist who ever lived, Liszt is the subject of a three-day event at…