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The Miro Quartet — the string quartet in residence at the University of Texas’ Butler School of Music — is topping the charts right now.

That is, the foursome’s latest release is running in the number one spot on NaxosDirect, an online music distribution site run by the classical music label.

Join us for Third Thursday, our FREE evening of art and activities. Introducing a new extended happy hour in the Cafe featuring a glass of wine and slice of gourmet pizza for $5.

6:30 PM Yoga in the Galleries
7 PM Book Club: The Song is You: A Novel
7 PM The Butler School of Music: Early Music Ensemble
7:30 PM Tour: La Guadalupana with curator Risa Puleo

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Faculty in the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin have donated $25,000 to establish a new endowed scholarship in music.

The initiative was a grassroots effort on the part of the faculty that began in summer 2009, when Sarah and Ernest Butler, in their continued support of the Butler School, announced [...]

Tuesday, Nov. 24, noon, Blanton Museum of Art (BMA). A collaboration with the Butler School of Music, this popular series begins its fourth season at the Blanton.

Enjoy the timeless beauty of baroque music played in the museum's soaring atrium by this beloved group of university musicians.

This month: BWV 36: "Schwingt freudich euch empor" (Soar in your joy).

The first New Music Ensemble concert of the season presents works by student composers from The Butler School of Music and from several music schools in Portugal.

Five pieces were selected for performance this evening and these will be repeated on October 14, 2009 in Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal as part of the UT-Portugal Future Places festival.

This concert will also present a set of fifteen miniatures by UT student composers.

Event: The University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music opens its 2009-10 season with an all-Bach performance by the Miró Quartet.

They will be joined by guest performers from the school's renowned performance faculty, and the concert will feature the Austin premiere of the Aeolus Quartet, the new graduate student resident quartet who [...]

Hunter March, professor of music education in the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin, has been appointed associate dean for arts education in the College of Fine Arts, effective Sept. 1.

Statewide and national leadership in arts education research and teaching, with an emphasis on teacher training, is one of four [...]

A $1 million gift from Austin community leaders and art philanthropists Teresa Lozano Long and Joe R. Long has created the Joe R. and Teresa Long Endowed Chair in Piano in the Butler School of Music in the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin.

"I am pleased to join Dean Doug [...]

Internationally renowned violinist Anne Akiko Meyers will join the faculty of the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin in fall 2009.

Meyers is one of the most celebrated violinists of our time, earning worldwide recognition as a soloist, chamber musician and educator.

"The University of Texas at Austin is proud to [...]

photo / jrossolPlease don’t stop the music  Retired physician Ernest Butler and his wife Sarah, long-time musical arts connoisseurs, have given The University of Texas’ School of Music quite a gift — $55 million dollars.

This gift is the second-largest that UT has ever received, superseded only by the John A. Jackson estate’s gift of $245 million to the School of Geosciences.

The Butlers’ gift is more than the School of Business got from Red McCombs — $50 million. About two-thirds of the money will go toward scholarships, and the rest will go toward faculty support.