Here are some select recent clippings showing the variety of hits/mentions identifying musicians and scholars as Eastman School of Music alumni, faculty or students. (Note: Some links may have expired.)
Celebrating the National Park Centennial
(The New York Times 06/30/16)
Last September, the National Park Service kicked off Every Kid in a Park, a program in which fourth grade students can log onto everykidinapark.gov to answer a few simple questions and obtain a free annual entry pass to the more than 2,000 federal recreation areas, including national parks.
As part of nearly $2 million in grants to the park centennial from the National Endowment for the Arts, Music in the American Wild (musicintheamericanwild.com), a collection of composers and musicians from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., will tour nationally, performing music inspired by the national parks. August dates include the San Juan Island National Historical Park, North Cascades National Park and Olympic National Park, all in Washington State. (Also reported by MyDaytonDailyNews)
Musical legacy runs in the family
(The Telegraph (blog) 07/02/16)
The Annie Moses band was formed in 2001, …
Camille Rose, harpist, pianist and organist, graduated from the University of London after attending Juilliard and after studying with the masters in piano and harp at Vanderbilt and at the Eastman School of Music. She too enjoys writing for magazines and composing novels.
Former Caythorpe girl Rosanna Moore to perform on stage in Sleaford
(Grantham Journal.co.uk 07/01/16)
In 2012, Rosanna was offered a scholarship to study for her Master’s degree at Eastman School of Music. Following her Masters, Rosanna has been fully sponsored for her doctorate by the Eileen Malone Scholarship.
Apart from performance and her passion for working with composers to increase the available repertoire for harp, Rosanna will continue the teaching tradition and takes up the appointment of Harp Instructor for Eastman Community School of Music, when she returns to the USA at the end of July.
Lenny White’s monster fusion at jazz fest never gets old
(Democrat and Chronicle 07/01/16)
Re-Imagine the big band
The Dave Rivello Ensemble drew a nice crowd for its first of two shows at The Little Theatre, including singer Curtis Stigers who performs Friday. Surprising, perhaps, because Rivello’s big bands play frequently in Rochester, and often for free.
An Eastman School of Music professor and modern jazz orchestra composer, Rivello’s sound is defined by the bounty on stage in front of him: A 12-piece big band, …
Programming Update 7/4/16: Jazz Heritage Series
(Hawaiipublicradio 06/30/16)
PROGRAM THREE – Walt Weiskopf
Saxophonist, composer, and author Walt Weiskopf was born in Augusta, Georgia and grew up outside Syracuse, New York. He took up his first instrument, the clarinet, at age 10 and began his saxophone studies four years later. After graduating from Rochester’s Eastman School of Music in three years, he moved to New York City in 1980. …He was a visiting associate professor at the Eastman School of Music from 2001 to 2008 and is currently Coordinator of Jazz Studies at New Jersey …
Rachmaninoff and rock cross in Sonic Cluster concert
(MPNnow.com 06/29/16)
Ensemble members Matt Witten, percussion, Spencer Phillips, bass, Jung Sun Kang, composer and pianists Olga K. Shupyatskaya and Futaba Niekawa met as doctoral students at the Eastman School of Music. … Shupyatskaya served as a visiting faculty member at Skidmore College, is currently on the faculty of the Eastman Community Music School, and serves as the director of graduate advising and services at Eastman. (Also reported by Irondequoit Post Online
Second Maryland Wind Festival brings rhythm to summer music performances, education
(The Frederick News Post 06/28/16)
After Tyler Austin completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music education and bassoon performance, … As artistic director, … This year’s encore festival runs through Friday and features musicians from six states and Belgium.
One of those musicians is Erin Lensing, the festival’s executive director and a freelance oboe player in New York City. Lensing met Austin at the University of North Texas when she was an undergraduate and he was a graduate student. She later earned her master’s degree at the Eastman School of Music in New York.
A ‘piano trio’ with two saxophones comes to Noontime Concerts
(Examiner.om 06/28/16)
The one piece composed explicitly for soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, and piano was “Jephtha,” by Carl Anton Wirth. After graduating from the Eastman School of Music with honors in 1934, Wirth established himself as both a composer and a conductor prior to the Second World War. This particular piece is a somewhat distilled poem based on an episode in the Book of Judges in which a commander makes a rash promise to God to assure victory, and making good on that promise turns out to require sacrificing his daughter. (Narrative theorists have compared him to both Idomeneus and Agamemnon, while Handel gave Jephtha his own oratorio.)
Hebron Historical Society Plans A Showcase Of Local Talent
(Hartford Courant 06/27/16)
Kelly Whitesell is a recent RHAM graduate who is currently studying Voice Performance and Music Education at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY.
Kids learn jazz from the pros at Eastman workshops
(RochesterFirst.com 6/27/16)
The workshops involve top musicians in town for the Jazz Fest
The jazz fest isn’t just about fun times and good music – it can also be educational.
A lucky group of kids is taking part in a series of workshops held at the Eastman School of Music this week.
Students are taking lessons from some of the top jazz festival musicians on things like song writing and jazz improvisation.
“What’s so great about the youth workshops is it really helps to excite kids in the area about the Jazz Festival, about the art form of jazz,” said Bob Sneider, an assistant professor at Eastman School of Music.
One of the pros that the kids are getting to learn from is Gwyneth Herbert, an award winning lyricist and performer.
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