Electroacoustic Music Studios at Eastman

03/03/2026

This week we are excited to invite Eric Chasalow to Eastman as the guest composer for our second EMuSE Concert of the semester! Join us for a presentation by Eric in our weekly composition symposium on Thursday at 3:35 PM in room 404, then come to the EMuSE concert later that night at 7:30 PM in Hatch Recital Hall.

02/03/2026

Join us tonight, or via livestream, at 7:30 PM EST for our first EMuSE concert of the semester! Featuring guest composer Elizabeth Hoffman.

Livestream: https://www.esm.rochester.edu/live/hatch/

09/21/2025

Our first EMuSE concert of this academic year will happen next Thursday, September 25, 2025 in Hatch Recital Hall at 7:30 PM. We will feature pieces by Kaija Saariaho, Hubert Howe, Mikel Kuehn, Nattakon Lertwattanaruk, and Bret Battey. Come join us!

09/02/2025

Kaija Saariaho — NoaNoa (1992)

Eric Bergeman, flute

Hatch Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
This concert is presented by the Electroacoustic Music Studios @ Eastman (EMuSE).

NoaNoa (1992)Eric Bergeman, fluteHatch Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music, University of RochesterThis concert is presented by the Electroacoustic Music S...

09/02/2025

João Pedro Oliveira — Burning Silver (2014)

Dana Crytser, flute

Fredrik Jernberg, guitar

Hatch Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
This concert is presented by the Electroacoustic Music Studios @ Eastman (EMuSE).

Burning Silver (2014)Dana Crytser, fluteFredrik Jernberg, guitarSaturday, September 23, 2023 — 7:30 PMHatch Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music, University...

09/02/2025

Please welcome our newest EMuSE Graduate Assistant!

Composer and percussionist Ian T. Jones writes atmospheric, rhythmically driven music featuring colorful orchestration and electronics or electronic-inspired compositional techniques. His music aims to tackle topics in psychology, social issues, and otherwise unremarkable moments of life. Ian’s work includes acoustic, electroacoustic, and film music, and has been performed across the United States and internationally. A dedicated percussionist and advocate for new music, Ian regularly engages in commissioning and collaborative projects. He is currently pursuing his Master of Arts at the Eastman School of Music where he also serves as a teaching assistant in the Electroacoustic Music Studios. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Composition and Percussion Performance and a Certificate in Music Technology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he studied with Mark Engebretson, Alejandro Rutty, and Eric Willie.

https://www.iantjonescomposer.com/about

04/11/2025

Please join us for our final EMuSE concert of the season, taking place on Monday, April 14 at 7:30 PM in Hatch Recital Hall. This event features guest composer Andrew Lewis (Bangor, Wales), with a world premiere performance of Soundings for antiphonal brass and fixed media by the Eastman Brass Guild, conducted by Mark Kellogg.

The program also includes works by Kaija Saariaho, Federico Schumacher Ratti, and Ko Muramatsu, presented on a 7.10.1 surround sound array.

For those of you who are not close enough to Rochester to attend in person, the concert will be live streamed here:
https://www.esm.rochester.edu/live/hatch/

Guest Information:

Andrew Lewis studied composition with Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham, England. He was one of the original members of BEAST, performing with them throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. His music is concerned with the materiality of sound, and often uses technology in its realisation and performance. He has been commissioned and performed by artists including the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, L’Opéra orchestre national de Montpellier, the Kreutzer Quartet, Psappha and Uproar. Several recordings are available, including two collections of his works, Miroirs obscurs and Au-dèla (empreintes DIGITALes), and Schattenklavier on Shadow Piano (Innova). Awards include a Bourges ‘Euphonie d’Or’, PRS Prize, Stockholm Electronic Arts, Noroit (France), HEAR (Hungary), ARTS XXI (Spain), CIMESP (Brazil), Destellos (Argentina) and the Prix CIME. Andrew Lewis lives in Bangor, North Wales, where he is Professor of Composition at Bangor University and directs the work of the Electroacoustic Music Studios. He is married with four grown-up daughters.

https://www.andrewlewis.org.uk/

More information on EMuSE:
https://www.esm.rochester.edu/composition/emuse/

03/02/2025

Please join us this Thursday in Hatch Recital hall for our next concert featuring guest composer Ludger Brümmer, former music director of ZKM's Hertz Lab!

This concert is free, open to the public, and will be diffused onto a 7.10.1 array (7 loudspeakers in the upper balcony, 10 on the lower level and a sub woofer)

For those of you who are not close enough to Rochester to attend in person, the concert will be live streamed here:
https://www.esm.rochester.edu/live/hatch/

There will also be an open lecture by Ludger Brümmer on Friday, March 7, at 1:30pm in Howard Hanson Hall, Eastman School of Music.

About Ludger Brümmer:
Ludger Brümmer is currently Professor for Composition with Digital Media and directs the music programme of the Hertz Lab at the ZKM Karlsruhe. He studied composition (artistic maturity) at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen and was Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University, USA from 1991-1993. In 2000 he has been a Research Fellow at Kingston University London, and in 2002 Professor of Composition at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast (SARC). Since 2003 he became Director of the Institute for Music and Acoustics, now the Hertz Lab, at the ZKM | Centre for Art and Media and Visiting Professor at the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe.In 2009 he was appointed to the Academy of the Arts in Berlin and in 2017 he became a professor at the State University for Music Trossingen.

Prizes and awards as a composer include the "Busoni-Preis" of the Akademie der Künste Berlin, the "Golden Nica" of the Prix Ars Electronica, the "Pierre d'Or" in 1997 and 2001 at the "Concours International de Musique Elecroacoustique" Bourges, the Larry Austin Prize of the ICMA San Francisco and Honorary Mentions at the "Russolo Competition" and the "Musica Sacrae" Fribourg. He was awarded the Honorary Prize of the German Music Critics in 2024.

He has created works for fixed media, multimedia, interdisciplinary projects, as well as works for dance, live electronics and live video. The opera project Amazonas was performed at the Munich Biennale and in Sao Paulo in 2010. Collaborations with the light artist rosalie include Lichtblick Bad Rodenfelden, with Susanne Linke for the Ruhrort dance project and with Bernd Lintermann for the Spin project. His recent double CD set "Sonic Pattern" and "Spheres of Resonance" was included in the German Music Critics' List of the Best Releases of 2023.

https://ludgerbruemmer.com/

More information on EMuSE:
https://www.esm.rochester.edu/composition/emuse/

Other EMuSE events for 2024-25:
Monday, April 14, 2025: Andrew Lewis, guest composer (Hatch Hall, 7:30PM)
https://www.andrewlewis.org.uk/

09/25/2024

Please welcome our new EMuSE teaching assistan Matthew Lam!

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Matthew Lam is an active composer and an enthusiast of contemporary music style. His goal is to explore and experiment on a wide array of sounds and timbre, especially with contemporary instrumental techniques and live electronics. Winning multiple awards, his works were featured in numerous festivals and conferences, including June in Buffalo (USA), International Rostrum of Composers (2023: Netherlands), MUSLAB (2023: Ecuador), soundSCAPE Festival (Italy), Connecticut Summerfest (USA), SCI National Conference (USA). Groups such as the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Toledo Symphony, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, Del Sol Quartet, and [Switch~ Ensemble] are among the many who have presented Lam’s music over the years. Lam earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Bowling Green State University respectively. He is currently pursuing his doctoral studies at Eastman School of Music with Dr. Elizabeth Ogonek.

You can learn more about Matthew here: https://matthewlamcomposer.wixsite.com/composer/about

09/25/2024

Please join us in welcoming our new EMuSE teaching assistant Anak Baiharn!

Anak Baiharn is a composer with a fascination for a diverse array of musical styles. His creative passions encompass electronic music, jazz, spectralism, rock, and post-minimalism. He has participated and has been selected to work with various ensembles, festivals, and organizations such as Arditti Quartet, Bang On a Can, Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting, OSSIA New Music, June in Buffalo, Florida State University Symphony Orchestra,TACETi Ensemble, IntAct, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, Thailand Techno Orchestra, Borneo Ensemble, Triphens (---) Ensemble, and Wind Band Association of Singapore. Anak is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Composition at Eastman School of Music, studying composition with Evis Sammoutis.

Learn more about Anak at https://www.anak-baiharn.com/bio

09/23/2024

Tune in to our latest video and watch Professor Mikel Kuehn introduce the Electroacoustic Music Studios @ Eastman. Learn about our teaching philosophy and the exciting developments to our studio spaces. Whether you’re a prospective student or electroacoustic music enthusiast, you won’t want to miss this!

Mikel Kuehn ’93E (MA), ’95E (PhD), Professor of Composition and Director of the Electroacoustic Music Studios @ Eastman (EMuSE), was the driving force in upd...