Eastman School of Music presents Rochester Broadcast by Lisa Bielawa
Join award-winning composer Lisa Bielawa for two outdoor performances, free and open to the public, on Saturday, April 18, 2026 (rain date April 19) from 12-12:30pm and 2-2:30pm at Parcel 5. For this performance, Lisa partners with the Eastman School of Music to bring together Eastman students and members of the Rochester community for Rochester Broadcast, a large-scale, site-specific “spatial symphony,” celebrating the diversity of artistic life in Rochester.
Featured groups will include Eastman School of Music (Eastman); Eastman Community Music School (ECMS); University of Rochester (URochester): All-In Brass Band (Tom Allen, director), URochesterMarching Pep Band (Anika Tripathi, student leader), URochester Chorus (Lee Wright, director), EastmanBrass Guild (Mark Kellogg, director), Eastman Saxology (Charles Pillow, director), ECMS Klezmer Ensemble (Jonathan Allentoff, director), Eastman Tuba Mirum (Justin Benavidez, director), Rochester Mandolin Orchestra (Ken Luk, director), ECMSGamelan Ensemble (Ken Luk, director), Eastman Chorale (Bill Weinert, director), ECMSChorus (Karen Templeton, director), Rochester Medical Orchestra (Evan Meccarello, director), Rochester School of the Arts Orchestra (John Fetter, , director), and Rochester School of the Arts Band (Kerry Venanzi, director).
Composer, producer, and vocalist Lisa Bielawa is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Rome Prize winner in Musical Composition, whose music has been described as “ruminative, pointillistic and harmonically slightly tart,” by The New York Times. She is established as one of today’s leading composers and performers, consistently incorporating community-making as part of her artistic vision.
