Watch and hear Michelle Ferry Williams (BM ’09) this and every Sunday as she plays in the Orchestra at Temple Square with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on the weekly television broadcast Music and the Spoken Word.
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s first network radio program (with the organ, choir, and announcer sharing a single microphone) was transmitted on July 15, 1929. Today, after more than 80 years and over 4,100 broadcasts, Music and the Spoken Word is the oldest continuous nationwide network broadcast in America.
With the Orchestra of Temple Square, Michelle can also be heard on the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s latest CD Teach Me to Walk in the Light released on December 26, 2012.
Tonight at 5:30 PM in the San Antonio Museum of Art, Benjamin Westney (BM ’03, MM ’05) performs his last of three concerts at the Brahms Festival in San Antonio, TX. The Brahms Festival is created and curated by Sebastian Lang-Lessing and the San Antonio Symphony. Ben performs the Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8, and the Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34. For tickets, visit 
Jonathan Dexter (MM ’05, DMA candidate ’07) and his wife, flutist Naomi Seidman (DMA ’07), Assistant Professor of Flute at Pennsylvania State University, will perform and present Dan Welcher’s “The Need to See” at the Texas Music Educators Association’s 2013 Clinic/Convention at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, TX on February 13-16. The work was initially commissioned with a NEA grant for performances in Kingsville, TX in November 2012. The performances reached 800 students in five schools. The work will be recorded immediately following the TMEA convention.
Nathan Harrenstein (MM ’12) has joined the Southbank Sinfonia 2013, Britain’s leading orchestral academy based in London that features partnerships with the Royal Opera, National Theatre, BBC Concert Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Meanwhile, Nathan continues his association with the Seattle based Parnassus Project, an organization dedicated to bringing classical music to non-traditional audiences in the community, such as Café’s, bars, libraries, bookstores, etc.
The Longhorn Cellos is on American Public Media’s Performance Today!
Tonight on the KMFA Classically Austin 89.5’s From the Butler School, hear Ying Zhang’s (DMA ’15) performance of the Steven Bryant Cello Concerto (2011) with conductor Robert Carnochan and the UT Wind Symphony. The recording was made during a concert in Bates Recital Hall in Austin, TX on Monday, December 3, 2012.
Francesco Mastromatteo (DMA ’12) has joined the string quartet Quartetto “Diomedee” based in Foggia, Italy. Francesco maintains his positions as Artistic Director of the Associazione Amici della Musica “G. Paisiello” in Lucera, Italy and as Concert Series Director of Classical Music for the World in Austin, TX. Francesco returned to Austin in October 2012 to perform solo (Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A minor) with the Balcones Community Orchestra.
