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$234,488 $638,420
RIVER CAMPUS EASTMAN SCHOOL
LIBRARIES OF MUSIC
• Student interns receive an enriched learning • While Eastman safely and successfully performed
experience that helps prepare them for the next 854 in-person concerts, including 284 Student
stage of their lives. Funding helps provide Degree Recitals, audio and video technology
internships for students in iZone, Studio X, upgrades supported an additional 521 live-stream
Rare Books and Special Collections, the Robbins concerts allowing parents and patrons from
Library, and other areas throughout the River around the world to stay connected.
Campus Libraries.
• Eastman Community Music School (ECMS) has
• Studio X is the hub for extended reality at continued to impact generations of musicians
the University of Rochester and fosters a through the ’20-’21 school year with 934 students
community of cross-disciplinary collaboration, participating in individual lessons, 306 engaged in
exploration, and peer-to-peer learning that lowers the New Horizon's program supporting lifelong
barriers to entry, inspires experimentation, learners, and 148 students supported the
and drives innovative research and teaching in nationally recognized Early Childhood Program.
immersive technologies. Additionally, ECMS will launch the ECMS World
Campus on-line program reaching students across
• The Librarianship Career Exploration & the globe in fall 2021.
Mentoring Group is inspiring undergraduates
to embark upon a library career path and • Eastman Performing Arts and Medicine (EPAM)
addressing the significant racial diversity gap artists (Musicians on Call) have had 128 contact
in this profession. hours with patients at Strong Memorial Hospital
and Wilmot Cancer Institute, offering both live
and virtual one-on-one bedside concerts for over
500 patients.
• 28 talented musicians received George Eastman
Circle scholarships and hundreds more received
scholarship support made possible from annual
fund contributions.
