This month, Seulki Lee (DMA ’19) participates in the 2018 Lucerne Festival Academy in Switzerland, where she will have the opportunity to collaborate with Sir Simon Rattle, Duncan Ward and Peter Eötvös, the world premiere of whose new composition commissioned by the Roche Commissions will be performed by the Orchestra of the Lucerne Festival Academy. She will work with such artists as the percussionist and composer-in-residence Fritz Hauser and the pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich. And in addition to key works of Modernism by György Kurtág, Luigi Nono, and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, she will focus intensively on the creative legacy of Karlheinz Stockhausen, who would have celebrated his 90th birthday in 2018, through performances of such important scores as Gruppen and Inori. At the end of the program, with the Academy Orchestra, Seulki will travel beyond Lucerne to tour Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris.
For more information, visit www.lucernefestival.ch.
Jonathan Dexter (MM ’05) has been appointed as Interim Professor of Cello at the School of Music at Pennsylvania State University. He fills in for Kim Cook, who is on sabbatical for the 2018-19 school year.
This summer, Jun Seo (MM ’11, DMA ’14) joins the faculty of the Omaha Conservatory of Music Summer Music Institute (OCMI). OCMI is the Conservatory’s week-long summer intensive camp, where world-class guest-artist musicians are brought in from around the world to create a vibrant and fun experience for students ages 5–college.
On Sunday, May 20, 2018, Ying Zhang (DMA ’16) performs the Schumann Cello Concerto with conductor Robert Radmer and the Balcones Community Orchestra in their final concert of the 2017-18 season. The concert begins at 4:00 PM at St. Martin’s Lutheran Church in downtown Austin. For venue, ticket and more information, visit 
Austin Camerata presents its second annual festival beginning Wednesday, May 16, at the 4th Tap Brewery and running through to Thursday, May 24, ending in the Rollins Studio Theatre at the Long Center for the Performing Arts. Artistic Director Daniel Kopp (MM ’18) will join others including special guest, internationally renowned violinist Chee-Yun Kim and choreographer Dorothy O’Shea Overbey to present 
On Sunday, April 22, Nora Karakousoglou (DMA ’16) gives a cello master class for the Austin Chamber Music Center’s Adult Academy. The master class begins at 5:00 PM at the Armstrong Community Music School and is free to the public to enjoy. For more information, visit 
This weekend, on Sunday, March 25, at 2:00pm, at The North Door, Golden Hornet’s 3rd Annual Young Composer Concert presents nine new works from Austin-area youth ranging between ages 9 and 18. Writing the new works under the guidance of professional mentors, each piece will be performed by Tetractys, with Matthew Armbruster (MM ’16) and James Burch (DMA ’16), in between brief interviews with the composers. It will include works inspired by the musical legacy of Leonard Bernstein, in collaboration with Bernstein100Austin.
On March 25 at 7:30pm, Seulki Lee (DMA ’19) appears with the Austin Civic Orchestra, performing the Haydn Concerto No. 2 in D Major for cello and orchestra, Hob. VIIb/2, Op. 101, in Bates Recital Hall. The performance is part of the ACO’s sixth annual “Texas Rising Stars” concert.
