Gleb Ivanov, pianist
September 11th, 2008 at 8:00 pm - Twenty-five year old Russian pianist Gleb Ivanov is “eerily like the ghost of Horowitz…His talent is Learn More...
Music in the Air VI
September 14th, 2008 at 5:00 pm - Bells and more will ring from the tower of Tillman Hall as university carillonneur Linda Dzuris pres Learn More...
Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway
September 16th, 2008 at 8:00 pm - 100 Years of Broadway is a revue featuring five of Broadway’s finest singers accompanied by an all-s Learn More...
The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley
September 26th, 2008 at 7:00 pm - Ten year old Stanley Lambchop makes it cool to be flat! Although an unfortunate encounter with a bu Learn More...
The Lovell Sisters Band
September 29th, 2008 at 8:00 pm - Hailing from Calhoun, Georgia, teenage sisters Jessica, Megan, and Rebecca Lovell blend in heavenly Learn More...
Applied Music Faculty
Professor Elizabeth Austin, Cello
Professor Elizabeth Austin teaches applied cello at Clemson University in the Department of Performing Arts. A versatile soloist and chamber musician who performs frequently throughout the Southeast, Prof. Austin is a founding member of Keowee Chamber Music, a professional ensemble and a non-profit organization that presents eclectic chamber music offerings in historic and unusual settings throughout Western North Carolina and the Upstate of South Carolina. She enjoys performing music of living composers as much as the standard repertoire. She recently premiered a composition at the College Music Society National Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, and will premiere a new solo cello work written for her by Richard Williamson.
Prof. Austin earned a Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance from DePauw University, where she studied with Cassel Grubb and a Master of Music in Cello Performance from the University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Jack Kirstein and coached with members of the La Salle Quartet. Highlights of that time include orchestra concerts at Carnegie Hall and playing concertino cello in a baroque ensemble for Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Series, broadcast live on National Public Radio.
Prof. Austin has been a member of the St. Stephen's Chamber Orchestra in North Carolina, the Roanoke Symphony, and the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra in Virginia. Internationally, she has performed with the Francesca Trio in Spoleto, Italy.
Teaching is an important facet of Prof. Austin’s career. She has taught strings at the Ravenscroft School in Raleigh, NC, and at the Duke String School. She honed her pedagogical skills at the Interlochen Arts Camp, where master teachers mentored her. She believes in teaching her students with a strong sense of pedagogy, so they will know how to approach learning music independently once they graduate.
Ms. Austin plays on a modern Daniel Foster cello, made in Blacksburg VA, which is a copy of the Feuillard Strad.
