Co-presented with Austin Classical Guitar, it’s the iconic silent film The Phantom of the Opera! Celebrate the 100-year anniversary of this classic with a vivacious new score by composer Matthew Lyons performed live by an all-star ensemble.
Friday night tickets are only available in advance and include drinks and light bites during a post-concert reception with the artists.
Sandy Yamamoto, violin | Annie Jacobs-Perkins, cello
MOONTOWER GUITAR DUO
Stephen Krishnan & Matthew Lyons, guitar
Run time: The Phantom of the Opera is approximately 90 minutes.
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. As a member of the Quartet, 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. She is the Associate Professor of Practice in Violin Performance at the Butler School of Music at UT-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 in Vermont. This season, Ms. Yamamoto is serving as co-concertmaster of the San Antonio Philharmonic at the invitation of their new Musical Director, Jeffrey Kahane. She is also very excited to start her new position with ACMC as their new Artistic Director.
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.
Moontower Duo
Matthew Lyons and Stephen Krishnan are long-time collaborators in performance and composition. Stephen has premiered several works by Matthew, including duets, quartets, and a guitar concerto. Stephen Krishnan is Grammy-Nominated guitarist and educator based in Austin; Matthew Lyons is an Austin-based composer and guitarist whose diverse musical output strikes a balance between accessibility and complexity, finding influence in jazz, pop, and classical traditions. The Moontower Duo is their collaboration for creating new music.