When Martha Graham danced…
A year-long teaching post at the Eastman School of Music provided Martha Graham with “a new adventure of seeking” that...
The Aesthetics of Imperfection
Through a deep dive into an iconic album, Warren Zanes ’02 (PhD) explores a lost virtue in recorded music....
The magic of Mozart—As Mozart would have created it
Kristian Bezuidenhout ’01E, ’04E (MM) watched Amadeus, the 1984 semibiographical movie about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, when he was 10. The...
Treating the pets of war-torn Ukraine
John Cogar ’71 became a veterinarian to help animals in need. He never expected he’d be doing it in a...
Two Decades of Gratitude
After years of giving, Gwyn Hankinson, a breast cancer survivor, and her husband, Garth, add to their support of Wilmot...
A ‘music-infused’ life: mezzo-soprano Katherine Ciesinski ’18M (MS)
Since winning the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions at the age of 23, Katherine Ciesinski ’18M (MS) has achieved worldwide...
Women’s Network Scholar: Malaika Perkins ’26
This first-year, first-generation student was drawn to Rochester’s mission: to make the world ever better...
All roads led to Rochester
As a child, Aekta Miglani ’04, ’10 (MD), ’13M (Res) wanted to be an artist or an architect someday. Or...
Training orthopaedic surgical residents: P. Christopher Cook, MD
As a surgeon, P. Christopher Cook, MD, the Dr. C. McCollister Evarts Professor in Orthopaedics, chief of the pediatric orthopaedic...
Dedicated to music: Belle Ra and James Marshall ’21E (MM)
James Marshall, a viola player from Washington, and Belle Ra, a cellist from Texas, love all things music—especially chamber music....