Our own Miró Quartet, performing a portion of the Beethoven String Quartet Cycle February 5 at the Lincoln Center, will dig into Beethoven’s middle period. Read more in The New York Times.
Jakovljevic, a visiting scholar in the Butler School's Division of Musicology and Ethnomusicology through the Harrington Fellowship Program, focuses on traditional music of the Balkans.
Composer, sound designer and Butler School professor Russell Pinkston's new album on the Ravello Records label, Balancing Acts, is now available for purchase.
The Austin Chronicle named the Miró Quartet and Professor Bion Tsang among the top 10 dance/classical music treasures of 2015. The quartet was named for its performance of Schubert's String Quartet No. 15 in G Major on their latest album, Transcendence, while Tsang was called out for his 90-minute cello performance during a screening of Hitchcock's pre-talkie film The Lodger.
Daniel Kopp (M.M. 2017) performed on the main stage of Carnegie Hall as principal cellist of the New York String Orchestra, with Jaime Laredo conducting and Emanuel Ax as piano soloist. The New York Times reviewed the Christmas Eve concert.
Professor Jeff Hellmer's edX free online Jazz Appreciation course begins January 19, 2016. Learn more in this interview KJAZZ 88.1 FM conducted with him.
Among the CDs featured on this list by Austin360 are ones by the Butler School's Professor of Percussion Thomas Burritt, the Miró Quartet, and the Aeolus Quartet (former graduate string quartet in residence).
December 9, 2015
| College of Fine Arts News Center
The Butler School's Nick Galuban (B.M. clarinet performance, 2015) was one of three College of Fine Arts students recognized at December's fall 2015 commencement ceremony for his outstanding work among the college's undergraduates.
School of Nursing student Francesca Revella has played the clarinet since seventh grade and didn't plan to stop anytime soon, so when she enrolled at UT Austin, she joined the Longhorn Band.
