Glittering, extravagant, and deliciously excessive music exemplifying “the beautiful age.” Performed by ACMC’s Cello Artist-in-Residence Annie Jacobs-Perkins along with violinist Nick Hammel and pianist Rick Rowley. Featuring works by Claude Debussy, Germaine Tailleferre, and Maurice Ravel.
Friday night tickets are only available in advance and include drinks and light bites during a post-concert reception with the artists. Subject to availability, $12 Student Rush (with student ID), $33 General Admission, and $48 Premium tickets may be purchased at the box office starting at 6:30 PM on the evening of the Saturday night concert.
Program
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun | Claude Debussy (1862–1918) Arr. Linos Piano Trio
Piano Trio | Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983)
- Allegro animato
- Allegro vivace
- Moderato
- Trés animé
INTERMISSION
Piano Trio | Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
- Modéré
- Pantoum. Assez vif
- Passacaille
- Final. Animé
Nick Hammel, violin | Annie Jacobs-Perkins, cello | Rick Rowley, piano
Run time: This concert is approximately 60 minutes, plus one short intermission.
Nick Hammel
Violinist Nicholas Hammel is currently pursuing his Master of Musical Arts in Violin Performance at the Yale School of Music under Ani Kavafian. He has also earned degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the New England Conservatory, studying with Sandy Yamamoto and Don Weilerstein. He has soloed with orchestras such as the Richardson Symphony, Austin Civic Orchestra, and the UT Symphony Orchestra. He was also a semi-finalist in the 2022 Young Texas Artists Music Competition, the 2022 Jefferson Symphony Young Artists Competition, and first prize winner in the 2022 Ann & Charles Eismann Young Artists Competition.
Nicholas is an active chamber music performer, and has performed with artists such as Sandy Yamamoto, Bion Tsang, Andrew Brownell, and Anton Nel. He is the violinist of Trio Sponte, an up-and-coming piano trio founded at the New England Conservatory in 2023. Together, they won the grand prize at the 2024 Coltman Chamber Music Competition. His former group, Trio En, won Silver Medal in the Senior Strings Division of the 2020 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. They also placed first in the 2020 MTNA Chamber Music Competition.
Annie Jacobs-Perkins
Praised for “hypnotic lyricism, causing listeners to forget where they were for a moment,” (The New Yorker), cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins is the winner of the Pierre Fournier Award, Chamber Orchestra of the Springs Emerging Soloist Competition, Father Merlet Award from the Pro Musicis Foundation, New England Conservatory Concerto Competition, and Hennings-Fischer Young Artist Competition. She is Artist-in-Residence of the EstOvest Festival Contemporary Cello Week and the Austin Chamber Music Center for the 2023-24 season. Jacobs-Perkins is also cellist of Quatuor Mona and Trio Brontë, winner of the 2023 Ilmari Hannikainen International Chamber Music Competition. She regularly performs at venues such as the Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Berliner Philharmonie, Krzyzowa Music, Ravinia Steans Institute, Yellow Barn Festival, and Marlboro Music.
Annie’s primary teachers include Frans Helmerson, Troels Svane, Laurence Lesser, Ralph Kirshbaum, and Kathleen Murphy Kemp.
Rick Rowley
Rick Rowley leads a diverse musical life. He performs regularly with many of the world’s finest instrumentalists and singers and his solo, concerto and collaborative concerts have taken him throughout the United States, to Europe and Latin America. He is on the faculty of the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas. He has appeared three times as soloist with the UTSO in music of Beethoven and Bernstein and performed concerti of Mozart, Beethoven and Shostakovich with student ensembles and conductors. His solo piano performances have earned him the Austin Critics’ Table award for Instrumentalist of the Year and 10 Best Performances of Music and Dance by the Austin Chronicle.
Mr. Rowley has been part of over 50 productions as actor, director and musical director. He performed with the Austin Symphony as an actor in two “Beyond the Score” presentations and an evening dedicated to the music of Silvestre Revueltas, as well as concerto soloist in the MacDowell Piano Concerto No. 2.