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49 unusual facts about Eastman School of Music


Abel Decaux

In 1923 he went to the United States of America, to teach organ at the Eastman School of Music.

Alfred Klingenberg

Alf Klingenberg (1867-1944), a Norwegian pianist of great distinction, was the Eastman School of Music´s first director (1921 - 23).

American Rhapsody

Copies of the work have been donated for the benefit of students at the Eastman School of Music's Sibley Music Library within the Ruth T. Watanabe Special Collections Department.

Ancora String Quartet

Its musicians studied at some of the leading music schools in the United States, including the New England Conservatory of Music, the Eastman School of Music, the Indiana University School of Music, and the University of Texas-Austin; they also serve as members of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, the Madison Bach Musicians, and other groups.

Anne Lauber

In 2007 the Eastman School of Music featured her in the school's Women in Music Festival.

Bill Pursell

Bill Pursell studied classical composition under Howard Hanson at the Eastman School of Music and earned a master's in composition in the mid-fifties.

Birch Johnson

He subsequently attended Eastman School of Music, receiving the Master of Music degree, majoring in jazz performance.

Carl Schalk

Schalk graduated in 1952 from Concordia University Chicago (then known as Concordia Teachers College River Forest) with a B.S. in education and proceeded to earn a M.Mus from the Eastman School of Music and an M.A.R. from Concordia Seminary in Saint Louis.

Carolyn Leonhart

While at university she remained deeply involved in music, singing with bands at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester.

Chosei Komatsu

A native of Japan, Chosei Komatsu earned a Bachelor of Literature degree in aesthetics from University of Tokyo and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in orchestral conducting from Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.

Cynthia Johnston Turner

Touring with her ensembles inspired her master's thesis on the musical and personal transformations that occur on tours, and her D.M.A. thesis at the Eastman School of Music centered on Dialogues and Entertainments by William Kraft.

Daria Semegen

Born in Bamberg, West Germany of Ukrainian heritage, Semegen pursued an academic career in music, earning her MA from Yale University in 1971; she has studied at the Eastman School of Music and the Rochester Institute of Technology.

David Douglass

Prof. Douglass was a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Award (junior) for 4 years, the Alfred P. Sloan Award (senior), and the University of Rochester's Bridging Fellowship to the Eastman School of Music.

David Liptak

Since 1987, Liptak has been a member of the composition faculty of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, where he holds the position of Professor of Composition and Chair of the Composition Department.

Dora Serviarian Kuhn

Serviarian-Kuhn received her B.A. in Performance from the Eastman School of Music and her M.A. in Piano from the University of Southern California.

Etudes Australes

Negative reviews included, for example, one by David Burge, pianist and piano professor at the Eastman School of Music.

Everett L. Fullam

After graduating from high school in Barre, VT, in 1948, Fullam began his college studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY.

Hans Davidsson

From 2001 to 2012 he worked at the Eastman School of Music serving as professor of organ and project director of the Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative.

Jay Krush

Mr. Krush holds a Bachelors degree in composition from the Eastman School of Music and a Masters in performance from Northwestern University, where he studied with the Chicago Symphony’s Arnold Jacobs.

Jeffrey Brillhart

He earned his MM from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied organ with Russell Saunders and piano with Barbara Lister Sink.

Joel McNeely

He attended the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, studied jazz at the University of Miami, and earned a masters degree as a composition major at the Eastman School of Music.

Jonathan Manson

Born in Edinburgh, he studied cello with Jane Cowan and later went on to the Eastman School of Music in New York, where he studied with Steven Doane and Christel Thielmann.

Katia Escalera

She holds both a Bachelor's and Master's in Vocal Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music.

Kneebody

Ben Wendel, Shane Endsley, Adam Benjamin, and Kaveh Rastegar met in the late 1990s as students at the Eastman School of Music.

Krzysztof Czerwiński

Czerwinski studied at Wieniawski School of music (Poznań, Poland), Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester, New York, U.S.) and Birmingham Conservatoire (University of Central England, Birmingham, UK).

Leon Dallin

Dallin received his bachelors and masters degrees in music from Eastman School of Music and a Ph.D. from The University of California, Berkeley.

Leonardo De Lorenzo

From 1923 to 1935 he was professor for flute at the Eastman School of Music and, after his retirement, he focused on composition and writing of theoretical publications.

Lim Soon Lee

In 1983, under the Singapore Public Service Commission/Singapore Symphony Orchestra Scholarship, Soon Lee graduated from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, New York, with a Bachelor of Music (Distinction).

Lucrecia Roces Kasilag

She completed a Bachelor of Music degree in 1949, and then attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, studying theory with Allen I. McHose and composition with Wayne Barlow.

Ludwig Milde

The Sibley Music Library at the Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester) lists "19--?" as the date for the Opus 24 studies ("Hofmeister Studienwerke; 7381"), but "1964-1966" for the Opus 26 studies.

Madeleine Begun Kane

Madeleine Begun Kane studied at the Eastman School of Music, the Aspen Music Festival, California Institute of the Arts, and St. John's University School of Law.

Maria Grenfell

She completed further studies in the USA, gaining a Master of Arts from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and a doctorate from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she was also a lecturer.

Music conservatories of Naples

Another student was Leonardo De Lorenzo, flautist of many american orchestras and teacher at the Eastman School of Music.

Myriam Avalos

She was awarded a full scholarship to the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Frank Glazer, and obtained both her bachelor's and master's degrees in piano performance in three years.

Peggy Stern

Stern studied piano at the Eastman School of Music, achieving her bachelor's in 1968, then attended the New England Conservatory of Music (1968–70).

Pierre Cochereau

In 2012 Anthony Hammond published, with the University of Rochester Press (Eastman School of Music), a book on Pierre Cochereau - the first full length English language study of this incredible musician, written with full assistance and support from the Cochereau family and former colleagues.

Rayburn Wright

Rayburn Wright (1922-1990) was an American trombonist, composer, arranger and conductor, and professor of jazz studies and contemporary media at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, New York, United States.

Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon

Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon (b. 1962 in Guadalajara, México) is a Mexican-American composer and chair of the composition department at Eastman School of Music.

Robert Bilheimer

Robert has also taught, lectured, and spoken at distinguished academic institutions around the world, including the Eastman School of Music, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Robert Sherlaw Johnson

In 1985 he was visiting professor of composition at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.

Roger Briggs

He then studied at the Eastman School of Music, where he earned a Master of Music (1976) and Ph.D (1978) in Music Composition.

Ron Nelson

He studied composition at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester earning a bachelor's degree in 1952, a master's degree in 1953, and a doctorate in composition in 1957.

Rosalina Abejo

She studied composition at the Philippine Women's University, and in 1977 she moved to the United States, where she studied at Eastman School of Music and The Catholic University of America.

Scott Lindroth

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Lindroth holds D.M.A. and M.M. degrees in Composition from the Yale University School of Music, and a B.M. degree in Composition from the Eastman School of Music.

Sergio Monteiro

In 2000, he was awarded a scholarship by the Ministry of Culture to study at the Eastman School of Music in the U.S., where he worked on his Doctor of Musical Arts under Nelita True.

United States Coast Guard Band

According to the Coast Guard, competition for its limited vacancies is fierce, and many new Coast Guardsmen enlisting as musicians are conservatory-trained with degrees from elite institutions including the Juilliard School, Eastman School of Music, and the New England Conservatory.

Ursula Mamlok

The recipient of numerous awards, Mamlok had received two National Endowment for the Arts Grants (1974 and 1981), a Fromm Foundation Grant (1994), a Fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation (1995) and commissions from various organizations, including the Koussevitzky Foundation, Eastman School of Music, Alaria Chamber Ensemble and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.

Washburn, Maine

Dave Demsey, jazz expert, teacher, author, curator of jazz; alumni of Eastman School of Music, Juilliard, Berkley, and UMO.

Yin Zheng

In the summer of 2007, she earned her Doctor of Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music under the tutelage of Nelita True.


Carole Terry

Carole Terry received her musical training at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas (organ with Robert T. Anderson, harpsichord with Larry Palmer), Eastman School of Music (organ with David Craighead), and Stanford University, where she obtained in 1977 a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in early music performance practice.

Conrad Herwig

Herwig has conducted master classes, seminars and workshops at hundreds of universities and conservatories around the world including the Sibelius Academy, Finland; the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin; the University of Köln, Germany; Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y.; and the University of Southern California.

D. J. Sparr

Dr. Sparr is a graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts and received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music.

Ezra Schabas

For the next few years, he studied in a variety of places, including the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, France as well as clarinet in New York with David Weber and in Paris with Gaston Hamelin.

Louis Lane

He studied composition with Kent Kennan at the University of Texas at Austin where he earned his bachelor’s in music degree in 1943, and with Bohuslav Martinů at the Tanglewood Music Center (summer 1946), and with Bernard Rogers at the Eastman School of Music (master’s degree in music, 1947).

Michael Lee Dean

He has performed and taught at a number of institutions in the United States and England including the Royal Northern College of Music, the Eastman School of Music, California State University Northridge, California State University Long Beach, and the University of North Texas.

Peter Kurau

He received his formal education at the Eastman School of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal College of Music, University of Connecticut, and Florida State University, where his principal teachers were Verne Reynolds, David Cripps, and William Capps.

Steve Reich: Triple Quartet

Alan Pierson conducts Alarm Will Sound and the Ossia Ensemble from the Eastman School of Music, which perform Reich's 1978 Music for a Large Ensemble.

Time Tripping

The album beat out recordings in Down Beat from heavy-weight groups at large universities such as North Texas State University's Grammy nominated One O'Clock Lab Band, the University of Miami's Concert Jazz Band, and the Eastman School of Music's Jazz Orchestra.