AC, University of Texas Fine Arts Co-Sponsoring Chamber Concert
The Fine Arts Divisions from the University of Texas and Angelina College will co-sponsor a chamber concert featuring a pair of noted musicians – and a legendary instrument.
The concert, which follows the closing reception for artists participating in the current gallery, will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Temple Theater located in the Angelina Center for the Arts Gallery.
Cellist and author Carlos Prieto will present the revised edition of his book "The Adventures of a Cello," as well as performances of works by Mexican and Latin American composers. Accompanying Prieto will be pianist and University of Texas Regents Professor Bob Freeman.
Prieto will perform with the cello known as the “Piatti”, an exquisite instrument created in 1720 by Antonio Stradivari. Over the next three centuries of its life, the Piatti cello left its birthplace of Cremona, Italy, and resided in Spain, Ireland, Italy, Germany and the United States. In 1978, the Piatti became the musical soul mate of Mr. Prieto, with whom it has given concerts around the world.
In his book "The Adventures of a Cello," Prieto recounts the adventurous life of his beloved "Cello Prieto," tracing its history through each of its previous owners from Stradivari in 1720 to Prieto himself.
Freeman has served on advisory councils for music and the arts at Harvard, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Howard, Middlebury, and Vanderbilt, and is a member of the boards of the Austin Symphony, the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, and the National Center for Human Performance at the Texas Medical Center in Houston. He chairs the board of the Institute for Music and Brain Science at Harvard-Massachusetts General Hospital. At the University of Texas he holds the Susan Menefee Ragan Regents Professorship in Fine Arts.
This performance is open to the public. There will be no admission fee.
 Carlos Prieto, Mexican-born and MIT-educated, is one of the most respected cellists in the world, regularly premiering works composed especially for him by Latin American, North American and European composers. He has received enthusiastic public acclaim and won excellent reviews for his performances throughout the United States, Europe, Russia, China, India, and Latin America. The New York Times of his Carnegie Hall debut raved "Prieto has no technical limitations and his musical instincts are impeccable."
Prieto has been invited to many of the world's most prestigious halls and has played with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic in London, the American Symphony Orchestra in New York, the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Spanish National Orchestra, the Spanish Radio and Television Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina and many others. Strings magazine devoted a cover article to Prieto calling him a "Renaissance Man" and examining "his astoundingly rich life as a performer, author, globe-trotter and tireless promoter of Latin composers."
In addition, Prieto has written seven books: "Russian Letters", "Around the World with the Cello", "From the USSR to Russia", "The Adventures of a Cello" – translated into English, Russian and Portuguese – "Paths and Images of Music", "5000 Years of Words" and "Throughout China with the Cello".
Every three years the Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition is held in Morelia, México, in conjunction with the Conservatorio de las Rosas. The Sixth Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition took place in August of 2009.
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 Robert Freeman took his undergraduate degree in music at Harvard in 1957, with highest honors, concurrently completing a diploma in piano at the Longy School and studying during the summers of 1955 and 1956 with Artur Balsam and Rudolf Serkin. After a year in Europe on one of Harvard's Sheldon Traveling Fellowships, he took MFA and PhD degrees in musicology at Princeton, where he joined the faculty in 1963, conducting the University Orchestra during the period 1965-68 as an assistant professor.
Freeman served as assistant and associate professor at MIT during the period 1968-73, and in the fall of 1972 was appointed director of the Eastman School of Music, which he led from 1972 to 1996. Appointed president of the New England Conservatory in 1996, he moved to the University of Texas at Austin in 2000 as dean of the College of Fine Arts, a position from which he stepped down in the fall of 2006. A Steinway artist since the mid 1970s, Freeman has performed as pianist in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and has recorded with colleagues both at Eastman and at UT. His honors include two years as a Fulbright fellow to Vienna, 1960-62, a Martha Baird Rockefeller grant in 1962-63, the Civic Medal of Rochester, New York, awarded in connection with his work on downtown revitalization, and an honorary DMA from Hamilton College.
In addition, Freeman has published on a variety of topics in 18th-century music history and on the history and future of the education of musicians. He has served on advisory councils for music and the arts at Harvard, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Howard, Middlebury, and Vanderbilt, and is a member of the boards of the Austin Symphony, the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, and the National Center for Human Performance at the Texas Medical Center in Houston. He chairs the board of the Institute for Music and Brain Science at Harvard-Massachusetts General Hospital.
At the University of Texas Freeman holds the Susan Menefee Ragan Regents Professorship in Fine Arts.
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