Bassist and composer Scott Colley, who has performed with legendary jazz musicians Herbie Hancock, Michael Brecker, and Andrew Hill, and who was an original member of the Harold Danko Quartet, will join a small ensemble of Eastman School of Music students on Friday, April 1, as part of the Jazz Café Series, which features Eastman…
The final round of the Lotte Lenya Competition takes place April 16 at Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Fifteen young singer-actors have been named as finalists for the 2016 Lotte Lenya Competition, including two Eastman School of Music alumni – Reilly Nelson (BM ‘11) and Lindsay O’Neil (BM…
Over the next few weeks, Eastman School of Music students will be reaching out into the community with classical music, presenting interactive concerts in schools, libraries, churches, and other locations. The events are part of the School’s “Music for All” initiative, a chamber music program designed to take classical music out of concert halls and…
Eastman School of Music’s 10th anniversary celebration of its Italian Baroque Organ continues with a Third Thursday concert titled “Organ and Saxophone: Sights and Sounds” on Thursday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Memorial Art Gallery. The program will feature the Eastman Saxophone Project and Eastman organ students Caroline Robinson and Brian Schoettler performing works by David Dahl, Ellwood…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 26, 2016 Jazz Composer Harold Danko to Present Tenth “Quadrennial Event” Jazz pianist, composer, and professor of jazz studies and contemporary media at the Eastman School of Music, Harold Danko will be presenting a concert featuring original compositions at his unique “Quadrennial Event” on February 29 at 8 p.m. as…
JoAnn Falletta, Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, who has been hailed as “…one of the finest conductors of her generation” by the New York Times, will be visiting the Eastman School of Music to present a lecture as part of the Glenn E. Watkins Series on February 29 from 3 to 4 p.m..…
(Left to Right) Adjudicator, Kim Pensinger Witman, Sr. Director, Wolf Trap Opera, Keely Futterer, Soprano, 1st place Emily Helenbrook, Soprano, 2nd place, Alan Cline, Baritone, 3rd place, Emily Siar, Soprano, Honorable mention The Eastman School of Music is proud to announce the winners of the 2016 Friends of Eastman Opera Voice Competition, which took place…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 16, 2016 Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the Eastman School of Music Ralph P. Locke was recently awarded an honorable mention by the PROSE Awards, from the Association of American Publishers—in the category of Music & the Performing Arts—for his book, Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart Locke’s…
Eastman School of Music alumni Maria Schneider and Bob Ludwig were among the winners in last night’s National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences 58th annual Grammy award ceremony, along with Assistant Professor of Organ Nathan Laube, who was a performer on an album awarded the Best Classical Compendium. Alum, Charles Halloran, trombone, was also…