The Yamazalde Trio returns for a second night of the Austin Chamber Music Festival to perform music alongside prize-winning chamber musicians: violinist Patrice Calixte and violist Eric Wong. The concert program features intimate, intertwined musical dialogues between Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms.
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
Three Romances for Violin and Piano | Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
- Andante molto
- Allegretto
- Leidenschaftlich schnell
Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47 | Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
- Sostenuto assai – Allegro ma non troppo
- Scherzo: Molto vivace – Trio I – Trio II
- Andante cantabile
- Finale: Vivace
INTERMISSION
Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34 | Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
- Allegro non troppo
- Andante, un poco adagio
- Scherzo: Allegro
- Finale: Poco sostenuto – Allegro non troppo – Presto, non troppo
YAMAZALDE TRIO
Sandy Yamamoto, violin | Matthew Zalkind, cello | Julio Elizalde, piano
Patrice Calixte, violin | Eric Wong, viola
Approximate run time: 80 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.
Patrice Calixte
Canadian violinist Patrice Calixte did most of his studies with Claude Richard at Université de Montréal, where he obtained Undergraduate and Master’s degrees in music performance. He has worked with many orchestras in Canada, including the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. He then moved to Austin where he completed his Artist Diploma at the University of Texas with Daniel Ching as his mentor. He currently serves as Associate Concertmaster of both the Austin Symphony Orchestra and the Austin Opera as well as the first violin of the Austin-based Artisan Quartet. Patrice performs on a violin made in 1910 in Florence by Valentino di Zorzi, kindly on loan from Lorraine and John Wang.
Eric Wong
Described as possessing a “tone like toasted caramel. Amazing.” (Musical Toronto), Eric Wong is the violist of the Blair String Quartet and assistant professor of viola at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music. Wong has been a member of the Afiara and Cavani String Quartets and a founding member of the Linden String Quartet, winner of the 2010 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition, Grand Prize and Gold Medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, Coleman-Barstow Prize at the Coleman National Chamber Ensemble Competition, ProQuartet Prize at the 9th Borciani International String Quartet Competition, and recipient of a 2011 A.N. and Pearl G. Barnett Fellowship. The Afiara Quartet was ensemble-in-residence at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto; their album Spin Cycle garnered a JUNO nomination and was named one of Forbes Magazine’s “Best Classical Recordings of 2015” and the CBC’s “Best Classical Albums of 2015.” Afiara was also the ensemble-in-residence of McMaster University’s Department of Neuroscience. The Cavani Quartet was in residence at the Cleveland Institute of Music, The Music Settlement, and Encore Chamber Music’s String Quartet Intensive.
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.