Diana Burgess (BM ’15) tours the Northeast as member of Austin-based indie band Mother Falcon. Their performances include an appearance on the 2014 NYC Winter Jazzfest Marathon at Le Poisson Rouge on Saturday, January 11. For ticket, parking and other information, visit www.lepoissonrouge.com.
Julia Cory (DMA ’10) is now Julia Cory Slovarp! On December 16, 2013, Julia married Jeremiah Slovarp, Emmy award winning sound engineer and President of Peach Tree Studios, in the “Land of the Shining Mountains.” Congratulations, Julia…we wish you joy as you journey the road of life together!
Doug Machiz (MM ’11) is co-founder and manager of the San Francisco-based Friction Quartet. Friction is garnering attention and praise from throughout the bay area, and developing a national reputation for exhilarating performance of contemporary music. The Quartet recently signed with Ariel Artists, a Boston based management firm. In their first two years, they have commissioned 25 new works for string quartet, give 22 world premiere performances and have received rave reviews from SF Examiner, SF Chronicle, Shambhala Times, and “I Care if You Listen” and “The Loose Filter Project” blogs. Friction collaborated with composer Danny Clay and a third grade class to perform a graphic score made up of drawings by the students. The video of the performance synced with the drawings, entitled 27 Overtures, is a hit on YouTube. Friction was the resident string quartet for Garrett-Moulton Productions’ “A Show of Hands” which was called “the greatest dance bargain offered in this town since the San Francisco Ballet performed in Stern Grove last summer” (SF Chronicle). Brave New Music, a new chamber music series in Healdsburg, CA, recently presented Friction Quartet in their inaugural concert. In December, Friction will perform and give composer readings at UC Riverside, CSU Long Beach and CSU Monterey Bay, and make their New York City debut in January 2014 at The Firehouse Space. Kronos Quartet has invited Friction Quartet to perform with them at Z Space in February 2014.
Diana Burgess (BM ’15), as a member of Austin-based indie band Mother Falcon, appears with Tim and the Space Cadets at the 2013 Austin City Limits Music Festival. Performances take place on the Austin Kiddie Limits Stage on October 4-5 and October 11-12. For ticket, parking and other information, visit www.aclfestival.com.
Anna Záborszky and Johannes Teppo, two students who joined the cello studio last year on exchange from the Sibelius Academy, got married over the summer and celebrated for a week in their native countries of Estonia and Finland with relatives and friends visiting from all over Europe. The two are now back in Helsinki preparing for their Master of Music degree final exams at the Sibelius Academy.
Here is the newlywed couple performing Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee” arranged for two cellos by Johannes…
Francesco Mastromatteo (DMA ’12) returns to Central Texas this month for two solo engagements with orchestra. On Sunday, September 22, Francesco makes his third appearance with conductor Robert Radmer and the Balcones Community Orchestra in the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto in A minor. And on Saturday, September 28, Francesco opens the season for the Round Rock Symphony Orchestra performing the Haydn Cello Concerto in D major with their new music director Stefan Sanders. For venue, ticket and more information, visit www.bcorchestra.org and roundrocksymphony.org.
Among his many summer activities, Daniel Smith (DMA ’15), as a winner of the concerto competition at the Colorado College Summer Music Festival, performed the Dvorak Cello Concerto with conductor Scott Yoo and the Festival Orchestra in the Richard F. Celeste Theater at the Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center.
Diana Burgess (BM ’15), as member of the orchestral indie band Mother Falcon, performs a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR Music…
Francesco Mastromatteo (DMA ’12) has recorded the Ligeti Sonata for Solo Cello for MTSmusictosee in Italy. The short film, directed by Giulio Bottini, audio engineered by Patrizio Petrucci, was made at Palazzo Sforza Cesarine in Genzano di Roma.
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