March 17, 2008
Eastman hosts fourth Women in Music Festival
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From a new work by an internationally celebrated
composer to new works written by Eastman School of Music students, numerous
premieres will highlight the fourth annual Women in Music Festival. And
using words, instruments ranging from a carillon to a marimba, and even
dance, more than 70 artists will celebrate women’s achievements and
contributions in all aspects of music.
This year’s Women in Music Festival at the
Eastman School, scheduled for Monday, March 24, through Friday, March 28,
includes five free noontime concerts. Each performance features
compositions written by women in a broad range of musical styles and will
open with a local woman poet reading from her work.
“This festival provides an opportunity for
musicians of the Eastman community to bring this amazing repertoire
together under one roof (or two) for an entire week,” says festival
founding director Sylvie Beaudette, assistant professor of chamber music
and accompanying at Eastman. “Not only does the festival celebrate
women’s achievements in music, but it also showcases students,
faculty, and guest artists, scholars and poets, bridging together the
Eastman School with the River Campus and the Rochester community.”
Beaudette is coordinating the festival with Eastman graduate student
Tiffany Ng.
For the second year in a row, the festival will have a
composer-in-residence. Nancy Van de Vate, known internationally for her
orchestral, solo, and chamber music and most famous for her operas All Quiet on the Western Front and Where the Cross is Made, will be in attendance for the premiere of her work
“A Long Road Traveled: Suite for Viola and String Quartet.” The
work was written for and will be performed by violist John Graham and the
Ying Quartet at noon on the opening day of the festival. Van de Vate will
also conduct a master class and coach opera workshops with Eastman students
and will attend a lecture-recital based on
All Quiet on the Western Front at the Memorial
Art Gallery.
The concert schedule can be found in the music section
of the Current’s calendar on pages five and six or online at
www.esm.rochester.edu/wmf.
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