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Dr. Martin McCain was featured on the Trombone 101’s “An Artist’s Corner” website along with other prominent brass performers and pedagogues around the world. McCain performed on the national tours for the Prince 4U show in San Antonio and the Celtic Woman Holiday concert in College Station. He recorded on the Doc Watkins Orchestra’s Christmas…
Conspirare, Austin’s nationally celebrated choir, will receive 2019 Medal of Arts honor from the Texas Cultural Trust Feb. 26-27 at events that culminate in a gala ceremony at the Long Center for the Performing Arts. Conspirare did a national tour of Considering Matthew Shepard, written and conducted by TXST Artist in Residence Craig Hella Johnson,…
TC writes: Larry Austin (1930-2018) was a man of contradictions, embodying and embracing many strong profiles, some directly opposite. Listening to his music, some sounds gritty and assaulting; some is exquisitely beautiful. He reveled in human improvisation, yet became a leading expert engaging mathematics and computers in his music. He was a radical experimentalist, even…
Steven Vogel (BM ’15) has been appointed Assistant Professor of Trombone and Euphonium at Texas Lutheran University, where he will begin teaching Spring 2019. Texas State trombones were represented in the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra low brass section in a recent concert. Pictured from left to right: Ramiro Cortez (BM ’18), Dr. Martin…