Rochester’s family holiday tradition, A Christmas Carol, returns in this sparkling production! This family classic will awaken your heart and rekindle your spirit with magic, music and merriment!

After over 50 years of active hit song-making and international album sales well into the multi-millions, it's safe to say that esteemed singer-songwriter and musician Gordon Lightfoot resides with some very exclusive company atop the list of all-time greats.

Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21; Gotte Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, BWV 106

An infinite variety of musical styles and instrumental combinations: chamber music is the backbone of music making at Eastman. Student and faculty soloists and studio ensembles cover the gamut of chamber music performance.

An infinite variety of musical styles and instrumental combinations: chamber music is the backbone of music making at Eastman. Student and faculty soloists and studio ensembles cover the gamut of chamber music performance.

Christmas in the Village is a fun, family event! Visit The Artful Fairy on December 7 and decorate a door for your holiday Elf or make a holiday ornament (charge applies). Our studio is open all day so come get creative! Get some great ideas for gift giving too!

Classic Albums Live takes classic albums and performs them live, on stage - note for note, cut for cut - using the world's greatest musicians.

Each Sunday evening, October through April, the Schola Cantorum, an ensemble of voices and historical instruments directed by Stephen Kennedy, performs the 30-minute sung liturgy by candlelight. On the first Sunday of each month, a Candlelight Concert at 8:30 precedes Compline.

Each year our craft fair, Crafts for a Cause, features 90+ vendors, each unique in their own way. All products sold at this event are handmade locally. This event is free and open to the community! Door prizes, raffles, and concessions are available throughout the day. Crafter’s booth fees benefit the YMCA’s Annual Campaign, which provides a Y experience to families who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford services such as summer camp, swimming lessons, preschool programs, and membership.

Creativity abounds at The Artful Fairy! We're more than just Fairy Gardens! Terrariums, Miniature Gardens, Wood and Ceramic Painting; Art is everywhere!

An infinite variety of musical styles and instrumental combinations: chamber music is the backbone of music making at Eastman. Student and faculty soloists and studio ensembles cover the gamut of chamber music performance.

Brahms: Warum ist das Licht gegeben; J. S. Bach: Jesu, meine Freude; Britten: A Hymn to St. Cecilia; Stephen Hartke: Blessed are They that Sow and Shall Not Reap; Abbie Betinis: Bar Xizam (Upward I Rise)

Jazz fans can enjoy music year-round at Eastman, from the award-winning Eastman Jazz Ensemble to ensembles ranging from intimate chamber groups to big bands. For decades, Eastman jazz has been synonymous with exciting performances, fresh new music and arrangements, and outstanding student performers.

Jazz fans can enjoy music year-round at Eastman, from the award-winning Eastman Jazz Ensemble to ensembles ranging from intimate chamber groups to big bands. For decades, Eastman jazz has been synonymous with exciting performances, fresh new music and arrangements, and outstanding student performers.

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.

William Winert and Caleb Hopkins, conductors Brahms: Nänie; Vaughan Williams: Towards the Unknown Region; Handel: Te Deum

Under the direction of Gregory Kane, the Finger Lakes Concert Band brings together instrumentalists from around the Finger Lakes region to perform a wide variety of exciting music for wind instruments.

Every Sunday afternoon enjoy a 25-minute presentation and mini-recital at 1 PM and 3 PM, an Eastman organ student demonstrates the sounds of the Italian Baroque Organ at the Memorial Art Gallery. These demonstrations are free with gallery admission.

Open your heart. Open your home. That’s the message Children Awaiting Parents (CAP) seeks to share at the Judge Wagner 2019 Heart Gallery—a photography display of children in need of adoptive families, on view during National Adoption Month in November. Portraits taken by volunteer photographers capture each child’s unique personality.

November 2019–January 2020: 50 minutes / For all ages: The Planetarium's family holiday spectacular returns with an even more immersive experience via our new Digistar projection system! Favorite holiday songs play back-to-back, choreographed with dancing laser light among the stars of the Planetarium sky. Produced at the Strasenburgh Planetarium, it's a Rochester tradition for family, friends, and out-of-town visitors.

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.

An infinite variety of musical styles and instrumental combinations: chamber music is the backbone of music making at Eastman. Student and faculty soloists and studio ensembles cover the gamut of chamber music performance.

All Rise is an evening of deliberative talking and light dance that will compel you to chuckle whilst enjoining you to brandish a better side of humanity than the one to which we have grown accustomed. Genuflection optional: in my church, you kneel as you please!

Known as the king of the rant, LEWIS BLACK uses his trademark style of comedic yelling and animated finger-pointing to skewer anything and anyone that gets under his skin. His comedic brilliance lies in his ability to make people laugh at the absurdities of life, with topics that include current events, social media, politics and anything else that exposes the hypocrisy and madness he sees in the world.

Heralding the holidays with brass music from the Eastman Horn Choir – W. Peter Kurau, director – featuring musicians from the Eastman School of Music.

Featuring Madrigalia; Cary Ratcliff, artistic director. Our annual celebration of the holiday season with the choral chamber ensemble Madrigalia.

This celebration of the DIY spirit and creativity in the heart of Downtown Rochester is a full-on community festival showcasing the intersection of science, technology, arts, and crafts -- many of them immersive and interactive. You'll find everything there from remote-controlled couches, flame blasting projects, life-sized crafts, Lego creations, a massive "Skeebowl" machine, and tons more. You'll also find areas to learn everything from sewing, soldering, welding, and everything in between.

Oliver Knussen: Ophelia Dances (1975); Helen Grime: A Cold Spring (2009); Michael Gordon: Lovebead (1997); Olga Neuwirth: Lonicera Caprifolium (1993)

All Rise is an evening of deliberative talking and light dance that will compel you to chuckle whilst enjoining you to brandish a better side of humanity than the one to which we have grown accustomed. Genuflection optional: in my church, you kneel as you please!

IN THE HEIGHTS tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood – a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. It’s a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams and pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you, and which ones you leave behind.

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.

Two PhD candidates, Sanam and Ariel, have spent the last seven years exhaustively researching vanishing bee populations across the globe. Just as these close friends are about to publish a career-defining paper, Sanam stumbles upon an error which could jeopardize everything. Both women must make an impossible choice – look the other way and save the bees, or tell the truth and face the consequences. By Madhuri Shekar Directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh

Experience the Holiday Magic- Wander into the mouth of Expedition Earth's cave and emerge in a lively, arts and crafts festival milling at the base of a life-sized mastodon model. What better way to feel the magic of holiday shopping? The RMSC Council, a volunteer service organization that supports the Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC) presents its 49th annual Holiday Bazaar Arts & Crafts Sale featuring more than 200 elite fine artists and craftspeople filling the Museum galleries and Eisenhart Auditorium. Browse ceramics, jewelry, glass, woodwork, photography, paintings, prints, sculpture, fiber arts, floral crafts and other beautiful items. Food and beverages are available in the Cunningham House studio, an area not usually open to the general public. As one of the longest running arts and crafts festivals in the Rochester region, it attracts thousands of shoppers annually.

Peter and Irene’s anniversary celebration in Palm Springs is off to a rocky start, but they are looking forward to a nice meal in a local restaurant. It’s just their luck to be served (or not) by a perfectionist waiter who won’t bring them their food and has them questioning everything – from their menu selections to the state of their marriage. A new comedy by Wendy MacLeod (Women in Jeopardy!).

Rochester's favorite New Year's Eve tradition of politically based satire ripped from current headlines. Irreverent, uproarious, and adamantly bi partisan, the award-winning troupe has been featured numerous times on primetime TV, as well as four times a year on its popular NPR specials.

The Nutcracker’s timeless tale of wonder and imagination has captivated audiences for over a century. Be whisked away to a magical land of sparkling snow and delectable sweets as enchanting dance from Rochester City Ballet pairs with Tchaikovsky’s unforgettable score, performed in all its glory by the RPO. This beloved story of a young girl’s Christmas Eve dream never fails to touch the heart, and is the perfect start to the holiday season.

Dubbed "masters of soulful folk" by Paste, The Wood Brothers formed after brothers Chris and Oliver Wood pursued separate musical careers for 15 years. Chris already had legions of devoted fans for his incomparable work as one-third of Medeski Martin & Wood, while Oliver toured with Tinsley Ellis before releasing a half-dozen albums with his band King Johnson. With drummer Jano Rix added as a permanent third member, it's become quite clear that The Wood Brothers is indeed the main act.

One of Eastman’s signature ensembles performs original works and arrangements from all musical periods for massed trombones.

With pulsing rhythms and original rhymes set to a live, looped soundtrack, Brian Quijada’s electric one man show is a hip-hop autobiography about falling in love with performance, the power of family, and growing up Latinx in a world that categorizes everyone in black and white. “An explosion of energy, raw emotion, and irresistible storytelling.” –The Chicago Sun Times.

With pulsing rhythms and original rhymes set to a live, looped soundtrack, Brian Quijada’s electric one man show is a hip-hop autobiography about falling in love with performance, the power of family, and growing up Latinx in a world that categorizes everyone in black and white. “An explosion of energy, raw emotion, and irresistible storytelling.” –The Chicago Sun Times.

Experience “the energy of life,” told through the percussive sounds of Japanese taiko drums. Since its formation in Nara, Japan in 1993, YAMATO has traveled for performances in 53 countries. While paying respect to traditional taiko drumming, YAMATO has breathed new life into the art form.

Experience a Christmas like no other.