Festival highlights and live performance packages
Soundtrax brings collectively composers, trade leaders, students, and lovers round themed programming that spans movies, video games, immersive media, and extra.
Featured concert events embrace:
- Film Scores Live! — The Music of Terence Blanchard — Featuring Grammy Award–profitable composer and jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard performing his movie music from Malcolm X, BlacKkKlansman, and extra with Gateways Festival Orchestra and The E-Collective.
- The Red Violin in Concert — The Eastman Philharmonia and violinist and school member YooJin Jang will carry out to the movie screening, carried out by Eastman alumnus Jeff Beal. Beal is a five-time Emmy-winning composer acclaimed for his richly expressive scores for streaming and movie—together with Netflix’s House of Cards, HBO’s Carnivale and Rome, Ed Harris’s movie Pollock, and the documentaries Blackfish and Queen of Versailles.
- John Williams Reimagined (American premiere) — Enjoy cinematic themes reinterpreted for cello, flute, and piano, performed by artists who’ve collaborated with Williams himself.
- Interstellar in Concert — Organist Roger Sayer will carry out his association on the historic Sanctuary Organ at Rochester’s Third Presbyterian Church and share behind-the-scenes tales about working with Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 — In Concert — Live orchestra accompaniment by the Rochester Philharmonic to the blockbuster movie franchise’s last installment.
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Free daytime speaker classes (with registration)
In maintaining with URochester’s mission of neighborhood enrichment, all daytime speaker classes are supplied freed from cost (with registration required). These classes—which embrace panel discussions, workshops, and exploratory classes on matters corresponding to AI in music, spatial audio, synthesizers, immersive sound design, and extra—will convene in Kilbourn Hall and Hatch Recital Hall at Eastman.
Register for free Soundtrax events.
A nexus of film-music disciplines at URochester
Soundtrax isn’t just a pageant—it’s additionally a nexus of disciplines. The University’s Hajim School, with its storied historical past in optics, imaging, acoustics, and engineering, joins forces with Eastman’s world-renowned strengths in efficiency, composition, and media to have a good time the artwork and science of sound in visible tradition.
George Eastman, founding father of the Eastman School of Music and Kodak, is commonly thought of a pioneer of early movement image applied sciences. Hosting a film-music pageant in Rochester evokes that legacy—music and imagery, invention and artistry, coming full circle within the place they started.
As Mark Bocko, codirector of Soundtrax and an engineering professor at URochester, observes, this is a chance to “explore how the artistry, science, and technology of sound and music shape visual media.”
University of Rochester President Sarah Mangelsdorf provides, “The pageant brings collectively the University of Rochester’s signature strengths in music efficiency and manufacturing with our management in optics, acoustics, visible science, and engineering.