In 2003, Eastman School of Music student Patrick Laird asked his friend, percussionist Ivan Trevino, to play drums for a cello rock group he was forming. “I didn’t know what ‘cello rock’ was or what ...

Ten years ago, Break of Reality was four Eastman School of Music freshmen playing over the coffeehouse chatter at Java’s Cafe. Three cellists and a percussionist, “playing Metallica arrangements and a ...

WELCOME TO SOLOS / This is another in an occasional series that will profile local musicians, actors and dancers who are normally seen performing in a group or ensemble. It's hard to imagine, but ...

Their profound and personal sounds demand that performers become unabashedly themselves, merging and getting lost in the notes and rhythms, finding themselves again and again, and emerging whole and ...

After earning his Master’s degree from the Eastman School of Music in 1999, Rintaro Wada taught orchestra, cello, and chamber music at public schools and nearby colleges in New York State. During that ...

In the mid-20th century, classical music was in a state of rapid flux. Atonal compositions (lacking a tonal center, often with pitch material derived from formulas) were the academic norm; minimalist ...

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