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Amplifying Young Voices with Disabilities: Interplay Orchestra
Interplay Orchestra is breaking new ground by launching a Youth Program for children and teens with disabilities. Winners of the spring 2026 Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation and Research Grant, the program empowers young musicians to develop their skills, build confidence, and shine on stage. Interplay Orchestra, a pioneering ensemble
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Eastman Students Gain Professional Experience Through Local & National Internships
The Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership Certificate of Achievement is an experiential program designed to complement a student’s primary area of study and provide professional development training to support student’s career goals.
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Tetra String Quartet wins Paul R Judy Center for Innovation and Research Grant
The Tetra String Quartet has been named the Fall 2025 winner of the Paul R Judy Center for Innovation and Research Grant for their project, Songs of Change: Empowering Incarcerated Youth Through Music. The Tetra String Quartet began working with incarcerated populations in 2011 when they performed for the Prison Entrepreneurship
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Billboard Names Eastman as a 2025 Top Music Business School
For the third year in a row, Billboard has named the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music as a Top Music Business School for its Institute for Music Leadership and Beal Institute for Film and Contemporary Media programs!
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Zohn Collective, an acclaimed new music ensemble, enjoyed a busy, fruitful four-day residency at Eastman. Ensemble members presented a reading of works by student composers, offered career coaching through the IML, and recorded an episode of the IML’s “Careers in Crescendo” podcast; while visiting composers in town for the project presented in the Composition Symposium and First-Year Colloquium. The residency culminated in a well-attended concert on the Faculty Artist Series, led by composition professors Daniel Pesca and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon. This residency was also supported by the UR Humanities Center, the Ditson Fund at Columbia University, and New Music USA.
Daniel Pesca (Composition Department), Winner of a Department Residency and Colloquium Grant