The Eastman Faculty Artist Series presents Guy Johnston, cello with Alexander Kobrin, piano, and Yoojin Jang, violin, performing on Tuesday, November 28 at 7:30 PM in Kilbourn Hall. The Eastman Faculty Artist Series will present 15 performances by our internationally acclaimed faculty members throughout the fall 2023 semester. Tickets are $10 for the public and free to URID holders.

The Hochstein School’s free noontime Live from Hochstein concert series features Hochstein students, faculty members, alumni, and RPO musicians. Broadcast live on WXXI Classical.

Founded in 2005, Third Coast Percussion is a Grammy-winning quartet of classically trained percussionists, including current Eastman DMA student Sean Connors ’04E.

Professor Kobrin will present a Beethoven Sonata Series at Eastman spanning the academic year, with four concerts this fall on the first of each month. Kobrin has previously performed all of Beethoven's 32 Sonatas in Washington, DC for WETA radio.

The Dryden Theatre is the place to experience your favorite holiday films. This season is loaded with musicals as we present six of them within the series, starting with Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (Aditya Chopra, 1995), the longest running film in Indian cinema history, which screens on November 11, just before Diwali, all the way to December 23 when we present an encore screening of White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1954) before holiday break. Interspersed among the nine films in the series are comedies, dramas, and family films, all with a holiday influence, so grab your elves, hop in your sleigh, and warm yourself at the glow of the silver screen.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED: The Eastman School of Music's Faculty Artist Series on Sunday, December 3 will feature Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor.

Create hand-built forms through guided lessons. Use techniques such as pinching, coils, and slabs. Build on a form and in a form. No experience needed.

The Eastman Wind Orchestra presents its final concert of the semester, conducted by Mark Scatterday and graduate students Zachary Griffin and Luca Peveroni.

Join us for an evening event for the whole family and experience the museum in all of its holiday glory. Enjoy refreshments including cookies and punch in the concourse throughout the evening. Listen to the talents of Joe Blackburn on the organ as well as The Clarinet Collection in the fully decorated conservatory. Find Santa in the living room, waiting to hear what children want for Christmas. Delight in family craft activities in the Discovery Room. Check off your list with items from the gift shop, which will be open all evening.

Gather your loved ones for the warm-glow-nostalgia of America’s favorite Christmas celebration.

Each year at Eastman, hundreds of students are enrolled in chamber music groups, with most performing in the school’s Chamber Music Extravaganza, a multiday chamber music festival where audience members can spend full days catching a variety of chamber groups in a range of concert spaces on campus.

The Eastman Repertory Singers, directed by William Weinert, is a mixed 60-voice chorus of Eastman students presenting frequent performances under the direction of graduate students in conducting, in styles ranging from Renaissance madrigals and motets to premieres of contemporary choral works.

The Eastman Philharmonia performs Dvořák’s beloved Cello Concerto, Prokofiev’s Suite No. 2 from Romeo and Juliet, and the world premiere of current master’s student Bo Huang ’23E’s God of Archery. Graduate conducting students from the studio of Neil Varon lead from the podium.

Annie returns to Rochester this holiday season!

Featuring Madrigalia, Cary Ratcliff, artistic director; Kevin Nitsch, piano; and Joanna Bassett, flute. Our annual celebration of the holiday season with the choral chamber ensemble Madrigalia. Madrigalia’s expansive interpretation of the December holidays includes celebrations both sparkling and thoughtful. These include songs of winter and hope for the new year as well as carols and folk songs sung in German, Spanish, Igbo, Basque, Latin, and Hebrew. Since 1975, Madrigalia has distinguished itself as one of the finest chamber choirs in Rochester and western New York. The ensemble is known for its quality performances of challenging and wide-ranging repertoire in this golden age of choral music. Madrigalia appointed Cary Ratcliff as Artistic Director in 2014, subsequently producing two recordings, collaborating with area artists, and commissioning and premiering new works. The Hochstein School’s free noontime Live from Hochstein concert series will be hosted by WXXI Classical’s Mona Seghatoleslami and broadcast live. Listen to the concert on WXXI Classical at 91.5 FM, 90.3 FM, or online at https://www.wxxiclassical.org. Listen to an encore broadcast on WXXI Classical 91.5 FM at 10:00 pm the day of the concert.

A series of themed, behind the scenes tours to help you get a glimpse at our collections vaults.