Musical Memories Concert Series

    Violinist Sandy Yamamoto is Associate Professor of Practice in Violin Performance at the Butler School of Music and 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. Among her many honors, she 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.

   Matt Zalkind is professor of cello at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music and regularly performs throughout the United States and abroad as a recitalist, soloist and chamber musician. A prize winner at multiple major competitions, he received Bachelors and Masters degrees from Juilliard, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan and plays on a rare Italian cello made by Florentine Maker Luigi Piatellini in 1760.

   Anton Nel is winner of the first prize in the 1987 Naumburg International Piano Competition at Carnegie Hall and enjoys a multifaceted career as a soloist and chamber musician. He currently serves as the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Chair in Piano, and Professor of Piano and Chamber Music at the Butler School of Music. During the summers he is on the artist-faculties at the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Orford Music Academy in Quebec and at the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival.