Program includes works by British composers Paul Reade and Ralph Vaughn Williams as well as others. Performers are Martha MacDonald, clarinet and Delaine Fedson, harp

Soprano Claire Vangelisti joins oboist Susan Hatch Tomkiewicz, flutist Barbara Mahler, violist Martha Carapetyan, clarinetist Martha MacDonald and pianist David Utterback in a program of varied and rarely performed works by Randall Thompson, Ralph Vaughn Williams and William Bolcom. 

Works for wind quintet by contemporary American composers featuring the Austin premieres of Encounters by Gwyneth Walker and A Walk Through Shaw's Garden by John Lampkin. 

Works by Lutoslawski, Schumann, Finzi, Chopin, and Horowitz.
A Haylee's Hope concert to benefit Smile Train, serving children with facial birth defects. 
Martha MacDonald, clarinet
Patryce King Gindele, piano 

This concert features a recital by International Competition winner, Russian cellist Ruslan Biryukov and Chinese pianist Mary Au presenting Sonatas by Francoeur, Debussy and Franck. The performance is in collaboration with the Austin Alumni Chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon International Professional Music Fraternity and the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation. 

Presented in partnership with the St. Cecilia Music Series
Just in time for Valentines Day! Well offer a mixed program of piano 4-hand, vocal duets and solos from art songs, operettas, jazz standards and broadway. Highlights include a new work for soprano and piano set to Shakespeare texts by Austin composer P. Kellach Waddle, selections from Carmen by Bizet, and H.M.S. Pinafore by Gilbert & Sullivan. Featured artists will be pianists Stephen Burnaman and Martha Mortensen Dudgeon; vocalists Claire Vangelisti and Jeffrey Jones-Ragona. 

Presented in partnership with the St. Cecilia Music Series
Trio Contraste will present a program of varied repertoire including works by Robert Starer, Don Grantham, and Kathryn Mishell and will include a new trio by P. Kellach Waddle. This touring trio consists of guest pianist Andrew Cooperstock, chair of the piano division at University of Colorado; guest violinist William Terwilliger, professor of violin at University of South Carolina, and Austin clarinetist Martha MacDonald, executive director of Austin Chamber Ensemble. Our website is www.triocontraste.org.

Read this preview article about the commissioned trio by P. Kellach Waddle:
Outside the Bachs: Classical sounds new when Austin artists do the composing, by Robert Faires, The Austin Chronicle, May 01, 2009