2022 – Institute for Music Leadership

Stephanie Tateiwa: Journey in Passion

Kristijan Bogdanovski — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:09:00 +0000

Stephanie Tateiwa (B.M. Jazz Performance, saxophone, and B.M. Music Education) won a grant for her project “Journey in Passion.” Stephanie and her colleagues will be recording an album of Stephanie’s original music based on blending non-Western compositional techniques. Her album will serve as a model for female leadership in the jazz community.

Emilie Tupper and the Kilbourn Quartet: Storytellers A Student Composition Workshop

Kristijan Bogdanovski — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:09:00 +0000

Emilie Tupper (B.M. Applied Music, violin) won a grant for her project “Storytellers: A Student Composition Workshop.” Emilie’s quartet, the Kilbourn Quartet, will be working with 2ndand 3rdgrade students at the Children’s School of Rochester No. 15 to create a collaborative composition along with Clayton Trumbull (B.M. Composition). Performances will be held at the school and the Winton Public Library. The Kilbourn Quartet also includes Chloe Yofan (B.M. Applied Music), Wednesday Hsu (B.M. Applied Music and B.A. Digital Media Studies) , and Noah Janowicz (B.M. Applied Music).

Larry Zalkind: The Morris Trombone Institute

Kristijan Bogdanovski — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:09:00 +0000

Larry Zalkind used the Department Matching Grant to support the Morris Trombone Institute and their directors travel to Eastman and activities on campus. These young people from Stephenson High School (Stone Mountain, GA) performed a joint concert with the Eastman Trombone Choir and spent time connecting with current Eastman students. Along with the Music Teaching and Learning department, the grant supported a question and answer session for Eastman students by the teachers, Quentin Goins and Calvin Morris.

Anaar Desai-Stephens: “The Road to QWANQWA: A Case Study of Collaborative Leadership through a Musical Ensemble from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.”

Kristijan Bogdanovski — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:09:00 +0000

Anaar Desai-Stephens used the Department Matching Grant to support a workshop by QWANQWA while on their international tour. The members of QWANQWA shared their story about forming the ensemble, the instruments traditional to Ethiopian music, as well as information about the music and musical culture in Ethiopia. The group fielded great questions from the audience, and shared their journey of planning and carrying out an international tour, and gave some highlights from their travels.

Guerilla Opera: Her | alive.un.dead

Kristijan Bogdanovski — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:09:00 +0000

Guerilla Opera of Boston, Massachusetts, Aliana de la Guardia, Artistic Director, was awarded $10,000 from the Institute for Music Leadership to support the production of Her | alive.un.dead. This opera, written by Emily Koh with direction from Mo Zhou, is a surrealist, sci-fi drama about two Chinese-American women who meet in the afterlife and discover a deep familial connection. Guerilla Opera (GO) is a BIPOC and feminist organization, Boston’s only experimental chamber opera ensemble, and one of only a few in the world with a mission to exclusively present new experimental works of opera theater.

Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon: fivebyfive Residency

jdunn — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:23:00 +0000

Rochester based ensemble fivebyfive engaged in a fall residency on Campus, working with several departments at Eastman. This included a grant writing workshop, individual advising sessions with students, a Composition Department symposium, and a public concert.

Noah Sesling: Metropolitan Opera Internship

Blaire Koerner — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 20:22:00 +0000

ALP Certificate alum, Noah Sesling, accepted an internship at the Metropolitan Opera in the Media Department as part of his Special Opportunity Grant opportunity. Sesling spent three-and-a-half months working closely with a team of administrators at the Metropolitan Opera company to provide support to the staff in charge of Met Opera On Demand and the Digital Recording Archives. In reflection, one of their most important takeaways from this profound experience was being able to work at a large artistic institution in the midst of a cybersecurity breach. For Sesling, this demonstrated the downfalls of outdated software and the dangers of storing too much information on one server. They hope to take what he has learned from this grant opportunity, and apply it to a career in music and large scale technology.

Tyler Ramos: New York State Music Teachers Association State Conference

Blaire Koerner — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 20:16:03 +0000

ALP Certificate alumni Tyler Ramos presented a “Lightning Talk” at the New York State Music Teachers Association State Conference in Fall 2022. He was selected as one of 5 presenters to give a five-minute presentation to an audience of music teachers from New York State, followed by a two-minute Q&A. His topic was “Ornamentation Improvisation within a Classical Sonata Allegro Movement.” Through this experience, Tyler continued to gain public speaking skills and received sample materials to utilize in faculty job applications.

Elizabeth W. Mayo: Summer@Eastman Classes

Kristijan Bogdanovski — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 23:09:00 +0000

Focused on understanding more about musician mental and physical health, Elizabeth Mayo chose to attend two of Eastman’s summer course offerings: Alexander Technique + Mobile Body Alignment for Musicians and Music Educators, and Peak Performance Skills. Oriented around health-related topics that are common to musicians, these classes serve as developmental tools to educate students on the topics of physical awareness to improve posture, coping strategies for performance anxiety, and learning techniques to reduce the possibility of playing injuries. Through this opportunity, Mayo has acquired new skills that will benefit them as a future leader in the arts.

Madeleine Snow: OPERA America’s Annual Opera Conference

Kristijan Bogdanovski — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 23:09:00 +0000

OPERA America’s annual conference is the largest assembly of opera administrators, artists, trustees, and associates in the world. Hosted by a different opera company in a new location each year, the conference is a major site of industry discussions, networking, and performances that seek to progressively move opera forward. Madeleine Snow used the Special Opportunity Grant to attend the 2022 Conference, which required travel to the Minnesota Opera in Minneapolis, MN. The focus of this conference is to affirm the collaborative strength of the opera community and ask the question, “What is the mission of an opera company in today’s world?” Snow reflects that their experience with this project was deeply constructive and an opportunity that they are incredibly grateful to have received.