Kick off the 2025 Austin Chamber Music Festival with the Yamazalde Trio! Acclaimed violinist and ACMC Artistic Director Sandy Yamamoto is joined by cellist Matthew Zalkind and pianist Julio Elizalde for a program featuring the vibrant rhythms of Joseph Haydn, Astor Piazzolla, and Anton Arensky.
Yamazalde Trio returns for Night Two of the Festival with some chamber music friends! Learn more.
Subject to availability, $12 Student Rush (with student ID), $35 General Admission, $45 Preferred, and $85 Premium tickets may be purchased at the box office on the day of the concert. The box office will open one hour before the concert begins, and hall doors will open for seating 30 minutes before.
Program
Piano Trio No. 39, “Gypsy” | Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
- Andante
- Poco adagio, cantabile
- Rondo all’Ongarese: Presto
The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires | Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992) arr. José Bragato
- Primavera Porteña
- Verano Porteño
- Otoño Porteño
- Invierno Porteño
INTERMISSION
Piano Trio No. 1 | Anton Arensky (1861–1905)
- Allegro moderato
- Scherzo: Allegro molto
- Elegia: Adagio
- Finale: Allegro non troppo
YAMAZALDE TRIO
Sandy Yamamoto, violin | Matthew Zalkind, cello | Julio Elizalde, piano
Approximate run time: 70 minutes, plus one short intermission
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.
Matthew Zalkind
Praised for his impressive refinement, eloquent phrasing, and singing tone by The New York Times, American cellist Matthew Zalkind regularly performs throughout the United States and abroad as a recitalist, soloist and chamber musician. Zalkind was awarded First Prize in the Washington International Competition, as well as top prizes in the Beijing International Cello Competition and Koreas Isang Yun Gyeongnam International Competition.
Zalkind has performed concerti with the Hongzhou Philharmonic, Musica Viva Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Tongyeong International Music Festival Orchestra, and numerous North American orchestras. He has performed concerti with conductors such as Ludovic Morlot, Thierry Fischer, Giancarlo Guerrero, and David Alan Miller. As a former member of the acclaimed Harlem String Quartet, Zalkind toured internationally with jazz legends Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea and Gary Burton.
Julio Elizalde
Praised as a musician of “compelling artistry and power” by The Seattle Times, the gifted Hispanic-American pianist Julio Elizalde is a multifaceted artist who enjoys a career as soloist, collaborator, curator, and educator. For nearly a decade, he has appeared as recital partner to world-renowned violinists Ray Chen and Sarah Chang, and has collaborated with many leading artists, including members of the Juilliard, Takács, Kronos, St. Lawrence, and Dover string quartets. As a founding member of the N-E-W Trio, he won the grand prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and received the Harvard Musical Association’s prestigious Arthur W. Foote Prize. Julio has collaborated with composers such as Osvaldo Golijov, Sir Stephen Hough, Adolphus Hailstork, and Michael Stephen Brown, and was a featured artist on the soundtrack by Academy Award-winner Howard Shore for the film Jimmy P.