Austin
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Musiqa is thrilled to once again join forces with the Houston Ballet HBII program to support the creation of a new work by an emerging choreographer. Corps de Ballet member Madison Russo is collaborating Musiqa’s artist board to create this world premiere performance. The program also includes new works by Musiqa’s Artistic Board — Karim Al-Zand, Anthony Brandt, and Pierre Jalbert. Season Info
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A thought-provoking chamber music concert exploring the intersection of Korean and French musical identity. With guest soprano, Yelena Dyachek.
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Houston’s artist-led, artist-curated Kinetic Ensemble celebrates women artists and women’s stories in “Her Story,” featuring a new concerto for solo violin, chamber orchestra, and three dancers. This multidisciplinary project is spearheaded by a team of three female artists: composer Nicky Sohn, Kinetic violinist Mary Grace Johnson as featured soloist, and choreographer Kayla Collymore. “Her Story” is inspired by clients of the Women’s Home Houston, a rehabilitation and support center for women overcoming addiction; each movement of this new work focuses on a different individual from the Center and her story, as a way to give voice to these women, and to raise awareness for the important work of the Women’s Home.
Nicky Sohn: New Work for solo violin & string orchestra (2023 — Premiere)
Anna Clyne: Within Her Arms (2008-09)
Gabriela Lena Frank: Leyendas for string orchestra (2001)
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Nicholas Newton
Frère Laurent
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Blake Denson
Grégorio
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Eric Taylor
Tybalt
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Austin Lewellen
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Andrew Stack
Performer, Master Johnson/Master Owen
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Gabriel Hernandez
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The Argento New Music Project opens its 2022-23 season with the music of Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas. Soprano Sharon Harms and conductor Michel Galante join the ensemble on stage.
tria ex uno (2001) – for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, and cello
...fließend... (2019) – for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, two violins, viola, cello, and bass
ATTHIS (2009) – for soprano, clarinet, bassoon, horn, two violins, viola, cello, and bass
Austin Lewellen
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Streaming link:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2Gq1W0fseSiA9lNPQ2oHVt?si=UYDi_BB4Rti4cCfLl-cqUg
Austin Lewellen
Double Bass
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Austin Lewellen
Double Bass
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Austin Lewellen
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Austin Lewellen
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Austin Lewellen
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Austin Lewellen
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Biography
With extensive performance experience in the fields of contemporary opera and chamber music, Austin Lewellen continually seeks to redraw the boundaries of our artistic practice. His interests lie primarily in the creation of living music, through active collaboration with composers. He is most at home in small ensembles, though his technique has a firm grounding in the orchestral tradition of the Common Practice Era. He take these skills both as a basis of communal understanding and as a point of departure. In the realm of contemporary opera, Austin took part in the US premiere of Liza Lim's "Tree of Codes" at the Spoleto Festival USA in 2018, singing the unstaged role of "Mutant Bird" while simultaneously playing the bass. Since, he has workshopped Nicole Lizée's "No One's Safe" at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in 2019, and performed in the world premiere of Rhiannon Giddens' and Michael Abels' "Omar" at the Spoleto Festival in 2022. As concerns more traditional performance practice, Austin held a Young Artist Fellowship with Da Camera of Houston, through which he partnered with the Montrose Grace Place to lead workshops for homeless youth. He performs often with the unconducted Kinetic Ensemble as well as the String Orchestra of Brooklyn, and is a regular substitute with the Houston Grand Opera and The Orchestra Now (TŌN). Austin holds degrees from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music and Oberlin College & Conservatory, and is pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he studies with Rex Surany, principal double bass of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
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