Chamber music study is integral to an Eastman education. For this end-of-year concert, students prepare and present masterpieces of the chamber repertoire.

Chamber music study is integral to an Eastman education. For this end-of-year concert, students prepare and present masterpieces of the chamber repertoire.

The Percussion Ensemble, directed by Michael Burritt, is an integral part of the curriculum and presents 5 on-campus performances as well as several off-campus concerts each year. The chamber percussion experience is essential to the percussionists’ training and allows the students to experience repertoire from the contemporary genres to that of world music and improvisation.

From October to May, Eastman organ students perform in monthly community concerts in local churches around Rochester. In addition to showcasing these students, the Community Concerts spotlight Rochester’s rich organ culture by featuring the diverse array of instruments housed at local churches.

Premieres of new pieces by Eastman composition students

Enjoy performances by East Rockaway High School students as their band, choir, and orchestra play selections of music in the museum's theater.

Eastman’s Chamber Jazz Ensemble explores imaginative and rare repertoire by some of jazz’s great composers and arrangers.

The Eastman Jazz Lab Band is a full 17-piece jazz ensemble, consisting of both undergraduate and graduate students. The ensemble performs a full range of big band repertoire. The band also performs arrangements by known Eastman Jazz alumni and current Eastman Jazz student arrangers. The Ensemble is directed by Associate Professor Rich Thompson and assisted by a graduate JCM student.

The Eastman School of Music Organ Department kicks off a new season of Community Concerts — short organ recitals by Eastman students as part of the department’s ongoing initiative to bring outstanding organ music to the Rochester community.

Jolivet: Concertino for Trumpet; Other works TBD

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture; Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1; Schumann: Symphony No. 2 Superstar violinist Joshua Bell will captivate audiences with his performance of Max Bruch’s beloved Violin Concerto No. 1. This special, not-to-be-missed event features Eastman’s own Philharmonia under the direction of David Zinman. Zinman, one of the world’s finest, most respected conductors, whose passion for music and dedication to furthering careers of young musicians, makes “music a better world.”

Bernstein: Symphony No. 1, “Jeremiah”; Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Liszt: Missa Solemnis

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin; Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Concertino for Harp; Haydn: Symphony No. 100, “Military”

Stephen Goss: Concerto of Colours; Sweelinck/Ricker: Variations on Mein Junges Leben hat ein End; Gabrieli/Scatterday: Aria della Battaglia

Copland: An Outdoor Overture; Turina: Five Miniatures; Barber: Commando March; Robert Jager: Sinfonia Nobilissimo; John Philip Sousa, The Pathfinder of Panama

The Ying Quartet occupies a position of unique prominence in the classical music world, combining communicative performances with a fearlessly imaginative view of chamber music in today’s world. As quartet-in-residence at the Eastman School of Music, the ensemble will perform three Eastman-Ranlet Series concerts during the season.

Beethoven: Quintet for Piano and Winds; David Temperley: Sonata for Cello and Piano; Other works to be announced

Smetana: From the Homeland; Kodaly: Duo for Violin and Cello; Shostakovich: Piano Trio, Op. 67. The Faculty Artist Series is generously supported by Patricia Ward-Baker.

Renée Jolles, curator. Eastman musicians present music composed and performed by victims of the concentration camps during World War II.

From its inception, the Choir’s mission has been threefold: to provide an expanded ensemble experience for the horn students; to acquaint them (through transcriptions) of the breadth of quality repertoire (with a particular emphasis on the glorious vocal music of the German and Italian Renaissance) within our musical culture; and to encourage contemporary composers to create original works for multiple horns.

Presented by Eastman Audio Research Studio (EARS), this informal festival brings together image and sound constellations, confluences, and collisions in forms previously unknown.

Mixing classical and jazz idioms with the magic of the Hungarian-gypsy vitality, violinist Roby Lakatos is a global phenomenon whose mastery and musicianship have earned him the title ‘The Devil’s Fiddler’. Blending the fiery rhythms of their gypsy roots with finger-blurring virtuosity and jazz improvisation, Lakatos and his ensemble aims to stir up the wandering spirit. Expect to leave with your blood pumping!

The Lotte Lenya Competition is an international theater singing contest recognizing talented young performers, ages 19 to 32, who are dramatically and musically convincing in a wide range of repertoire, and emphasizes the acting of songs within a dramatic context.

Works to include Hymnus for twelve cellos by Julius Klengel (1859-1933); Anton Arensky: Piano Trio No. 1 in d minor Op. 32. Elinor Freer, piano; Shannon Nance, violin; Mimi Hwang, cello

Ossia takes its name from the score marking that indicates a musical alternative. This ensemble provides alternatives for the performance of new music at the Eastman School of Music, throughout the Rochester area and beyond. Ossia produces professional-quality concerts of contemporary music, and in so doing, helps the student members learn the musical and entrepreneurial skills needed to mount successful performances.

Director of the Church Music Institute at the Musikhochschule in Lubeck, and Titular Organist of the historic Stellwagen organ in St. Jakobi, Lubeck

An infinite variety of musical styles and instrumental combinations: chamber music is the backbone of music making at Eastman.

"The Motown sound returns to Rochester! Get ready for a special Mother's Day performance with The Temptations & The Four Tops on Sunday, May 12!

An 18-member ensemble of undergraduate and graduate students who perform a variety of concerts throughout the year. The group’s repertoire ranges from original works for tuba ensemble to transcriptions of popular music.

The internationally acclaimed United States Army Field Band is presented by the City of Rochester and Eastman School of Music.

A genre-bending, collaborative, evening-length original “creative collision”!