For the third year in a row, a Longhorn Cellist has been named a prize winner of the New York International Artists Competition. Seth Russell (DMA ’19) won Third Prize in the top category of the NYIAA 2017 Cello Competition, joining Ying Zhang (DMA ’16) and Yi Xin (DMA ’14), who won in the 2016 and 2015 Cello Competitions, respectively. NYIAA will present Seth, as well as winners from other instruments, in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in September 2017.
Ying Zhang (DMA ’16) at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, October 2016
The 2017 Austin Chamber Music Festival begins this weekend, and Frank Jenkins (DMA ’13) with his Frank Jenkins Quartet performs Steve Reich’s Different Trains on Tuesday, July 11, at 12:25pm, in Bates Recital Hall on the UT campus. Admission is free.
Ying Zhang (DMA ’16) has been selected as a prize winner in the 2017 Salzburg Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition and has been invited to perform in the Wiener Saal at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, on Monday, July 10, 2017. The Salzburg Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition is open to all nationalities and ages in strings, piano, wind, vocal and chamber music. 
Led by its artistic director Daniel Kopp (MM ’18), Austin Camerata kicks off its first annual music festival this Saturday, May 13. Matt Kufchak, KMFA’s Marketing and Engagement Assistant and one of Austin Camerata’s musical performers, previews what to expect at the four day festival.
Austin Camerata presents its first festival beginning Saturday, May 13, at noon, at the Rotunda of the State Capitol Building. Artistic Director Daniel Kopp (MM ’18) and others will reprise their Bach and Colorfield performance from the Blanton Museum as well as selections by Caroline Shaw, Paul Wiancko, Schubert and more. The festival continues through Sunday, May 21 at Imagine Art, the Austin Public Library and 4th Tap Brewery.
Doug Machiz (MM ’11), with his San Francisco-based Friction Quartet, from his performance at the Hearst Memorial Mining Building, receives a glowing review from the San Francisco Classical Voice:
Francesco Mastromatteo (DMA ’12) has just arrived in Austin from Italy this week for a pair of recitals in which he will perform all six of the suites for unaccompanied cello by Johann Sebastian Bach. He stopped by KMFA yesterday to talk with Chris Johnson about the music of Bach and to play some excerpts in KMFA’s Performance Studio. Recording by Jeffrey Blair.
Longhorn Cellos 