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2016 College of Fine Arts Commencement Speaker Announced

April 14, 2016 | College of Fine Arts News Center

The 2016 College of Fine Arts commencement speaker is dancer and choreographer Alvin Rangel (M.F.A. Dance, 2012). This year's commencement takes place May 20.

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Professor Bob Duke Inducted into UT System Academy of Distinguished Teachers

April 14, 2016 | UT System News Center

Professor Bob Duke, head of Music and Human Learning at the Butler School, is among three educators who will be inducted into the University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers on April 19. He's also the only University of Texas at Austin professor this year to be inducted.

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Blake Cooper (M.M. Tuba, 2009) Featured in AXE Commercial

April 13, 2016 | AXE YouTube Channel

Blake Cooper (M.M. Tuba, 2009), a former student of Professor Steve Bryant, is featured in this AXE commercial.

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Wayne Ching to perform at Cactus Pear Music Festival

April 12, 2016 | Cactus Pear Music Festival

Wayne Ching (B.M. 2013, M.M., Keyboard, 2015) will join the Cactus Pear Music Festival's 20th season as a festival artist, performing chamber music concerts across South Texas this summer.

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Head Piano Technician Featured in The Daily Texan

April 12, 2016 | The Daily Texan

Butler School head piano technician Charles Ball is tasked with the job of tuning and fixing UT’s 220 pianos, which are spread across campus.

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Review: Miró Quartet Looks to the Overlooked Ginastera

April 12, 2016 | The New York Times

The Miró Quartet brought Ginastera's cycle of three quartets to life with fiercely intense accounts at the intimate Rose Studio, reported The New York Times, where they were presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in its series of string quartet cycles.

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KMFA's From the Butler School: Butler Trio

April 5, 2016 | KMFA, Classical 89.5

This week's From the Butler School on KMFA, Classical 89.5 features the Butler Trio--Colette Valentine (piano), Josh Gindele (cello) and Sandy Yamamoto (violin)--along with Roger Myers (viola), playing Beethoven and Brahms. Take a listen.

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James Burch (D.M.A. 2016) Soloist in Graham Reynolds World Premiere

March 31, 2016 | Graham Reynolds Official Website

Cellist James Burch (D.M.A. 2016) will be the soloist in the world premiere performances of composer Graham Reynolds' “Once Beginning” for Ballet Austin, April 1-3 at the Long Center.

Dr. Sonia Seeman and Butler Students Perform in Karachi, Pakistan

Dr. Sonia Seeman and Butler Students Perform in Karachi, Pakistan

March 25, 2016 | Samaa TV

Over spring break, Professor of Ethnomusicology Sonia Seeman and six Butler School students traveled to Karachi, Pakistan to give two performances with Pakistan's National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA), the culmination of the UT Austin South Asia Institute's three-year U.S. Department of State University Partnerships grant.

Aizuri Quartet

Yevgeniy Sharlat's String Quartet No. 3 Called "Startlingly Compelling" by San Diego Union-Tribune

March 23, 2016 | San Diego Union-Tribune

San Diego Union-Tribune classical music critic Christian Hertzog called Professor of Composition Yevgeniy Sharlat's String Quartet No. 3, commissioned by the Aizuri Quartet, "the most startlingly compelling string quartet by an under-50 American composer I’ve heard in years." Read the review here.