Schumann Chamber Players

2023 Austin Chamber Music Festival

Sponsored by Catherine & David Wildermuth
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The Schumann Chamber Players, featuring violinist Sandy Yamamoto, cellist Amy Levine-Tsang, and pianist Michelle Schumann, previously won the Austin Critics Table Award for Best Ensemble for their Austin Chamber Music Festival performance. See them return to the Festival stage this August!

Subject to availability, $12 Student Rush (with student ID), $40 General Admission, and $80 Premium tickets may be purchased at the box office on the evening of the concert. The box office will open at 7:00 PM that day.

Program

Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1 | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

  • Allegro vivace e con brio
  • Largo assai ed espressivo
  • Presto

Three Nocturnes | Ernest Bloch (1880–1959)

  • Andante
  • Andante quieto
  • Tempestoso

INTERMISSION

be still and know | Carlos Simon (b. 1986)

Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66 | Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)

  • Allegro energico e con fuoco
  • Andante espressivo
  • Scherzo: Molto allegro quasi presto
  • Finale: Allegro appassionato

 

SCHUMANN CHAMBER PLAYERS

Sandy Yamamoto, violin | Amy Levine-Tsang, cello | Michelle Schumann, piano

We are closely monitoring the pandemic and its impact on in-person events. With the health and safety of our community in mind, ACMC has updated our COVID-19 guidelines in accordance with City of Austin and CDC. View all recent updates to our programming by visiting our COVID-19 Response page.

Sandy Yamamoto

Violinist Sandy Yamamoto has dazzled audiences in concert performances around the globe for the past three decades as a soloist and as a member of the Miró Quartet. The New York Times describes her performance as playing with “explosive vigor and technical finesse.” With the Quartet, she performed on the major concert stages of the world, regularly concertizing in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. She was a recipient of the Naumburg Chamber Music and Cleveland Quartet Awards, won First Prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition and was one of the first chamber musicians to be awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. Currently, she is the Associate Professor of Practice in Violin Performance at the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin and was the recipient of the 2016 Butler School of Music Teaching Excellence Award. In the summers, she teaches at the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival. Ms. Yamamoto often performs with the East Coast Chamber Orchestra as well as the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. When she is not busy teaching and performing, Ms. Yamamoto enjoys spending time with her husband Daniel, her two sons Adrian and Brian, her cat Poko, and her two gerbils Sawyer and Silas.

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Amy Levine-Tsang

Cellist Amy Levine-Tsang enjoys an active career as both chamber musician and teacher. In addition to her appearances with the Austin Chamber Music Center, Ms. Levine-Tsang has collaborated with numerous ensembles including the Brentano, Cassatt, Colorado, and Meridian String Quartets; and the New Jersey Chamber Music Society. She is also a former member of the Richardson Chamber Players and the award-winning Laurel Trio. Ms. Levine-Tsang has performed at numerous festivals including the Marlboro Music Festival, the Gerhart Chamber Music Festival, the Portland Chamber Music Festival, the Cactus Pear Music Festival, Music in the Vineyards, and the Laurel Festival of the Arts.

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Michelle Schumann

Hailed for her “sensitive, flexible, and tempestuous dexterity” (Fanfare Magazine), pianist Michelle Schumann has built a reputation for evocative and moving performances. Since 2006, Michelle has served as Artistic Director of the Austin Chamber Music Center, where she “is fearlessly expanding our definition of chamber music.” (Austin-American Statesman). Her brand of performance includes an enthusiastic interplay with audiences, bringing diverse music together under a cohesive narrative. She was named “Best Classical Musician” in the Best of Austin 2019 Readers Poll by the Austin Chronicle.

Schumann is Professor of Piano at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. She received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin and additionally holds a Performance Diploma from the Vienna Conservatory.

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