Triptych Trio

About the Artists

Patrick Hughes

 With a tone and musicality described as “pure chocolate”, Patrick Hughes has soloed in recitals throughout the US, at annual regional horn conferences, and at over 20 International Horn Symposia. International ventures include performances in Jamaica, China, Australia, Thailand, the UK, Brazil, Belgium, and Canada. He is an oft-featured soloist with various ensembles at The University of Texas at Austin (recently performing Ligeti’s Hamburg Concerto by György and Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante) as well as the Northwestern Percussion Ensemble, the St. Olaf Orchestra, and the Dallas Wind Symphony. The Dallas Morning News described Hughes as “…a dream soloist…His tone was warm and honeyed, his virtuosity and legato both apparently effortless.”  Mr. Hughes wears many hats at the Butler School of Music:  associate professor of horn, head of the brass wind and percussion division, and director of the UT Horn Choir. He also enjoys a varied musical life as pedagogue, soloist, chamber musician and composer. His compositions/arrangements include a number of pieces for horn choir and horn in chamber music.

Charles Villarrubia

Charles Villarrubia is professor of tuba/euphonium at The University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Villarrubia has been a member of the Dallas Brass, the Brevard Music Center Orchestra and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra and has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops Orchestras. Mr. Villarrubia has appeared on four continents as a guest clinician and performer and has recorded on the Telarc, Angel EMI, d’note, and Koch labels. He has been a faculty member at Boston University, The Boston Conservatory, New England Conservatory, and the Longy School of Music. In the spring of 2011 Mr. Villarrubia commissioned Donald Grantham to compose a new work for solo tuba and orchestral winds. This resulted in a major new addition to the repertoire, the Concerto for Solo Tuba, Orchestral Winds, Percussion and Piano. In 2017 he was the recipient of the Butler School of Music Teaching Excellence Award and in 2019 received the award for the College of Fine Arts Distinguisher Teacher.

Patti Wolf

Since being chosen at age nineteen as the youngest competitor of the 1985 Van Cliburn Competition, Patti Wolf has performed as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. She has collaborated in recital with many of the world’s most distinguished musical artists, such as cellist Lynn Harrell, pianist Jon Kimura Parker, flutist Carol Wincenc, violinist Ilya Kaler, concertmasters Glenn Dicterow, Andrés Cárdenas, David Halen and Nina Bodnar, soprano Erin Wall, Chicago Symphony principal horn Dale Clevenger, and renowned German horn soloist and recording artist Hermann Baumann. In 2017, Ms. Wolf joined the faculty at the University of Texas, Austin, Butler School of Music, where she is assistant professor of practice in collaborative piano. She performs regularly with faculty members and has been a guest recently with the Austin Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Lyrica Baroque in New Orleans, and HeightsArts in Cleveland, Oh, performing with musicians of the Cleveland Orchestra.

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Upcoming Events

Wind Ensemble
20th Anniversary Performance of Circus Maximus
by John Corigliano

Join us this winter in Downtown Austin for the 20th Anniversary Performance of John Corigliano's epic third symphony, Circus Maximus. Commissioned by The University of Texas Wind Ensemble and premiered in 2004, Circus Maximus is scored for three different bands: one on stage, an antiphonal ensemble in the hall, and a marching band. The composer used the Circus Maximus arena in Rome as inspiration, with the audience situated in the center, surrounded by sound. Get your tickets now!

Saturday, January 25, 7:30 p.m.
The Long Center for the Performing Arts

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Symphony Orchestra
Featuring Jonathan Gunn, clarinet
Saturday, October 26, 7:30 p.m. 
Bates Recital Hall 

Miró Quartet
Monday, October 28, 7:30 p.m. 
Bates Recital Hall

Yamazalde Trio
Thursday, October 31, 7:30 p.m. 
Bates Recital Hall

John Largess, viola & Tamar Sanikidze, piano
Thursday, November 7, 7:30 p.m. 
Bates Recital Hall 

Wind Ensemble
Featuring Patrick Hughes, horn
Sunday, November 10, 4:00 p.m.
Bates Recital hall