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 ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Their profound and personal sounds demand that performers become unabashedly ...

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 ...

Suggested donation $10 to $20. Pianist Joonghun Cho (BM Eastman School of Music, MM & DMA University of Michigan, and Artistic Director of the Gibson Centre Classical Concert Series) & cellist Peter ...