Mendelssohn & Brahms
Felix Mendelssohn
String Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20
Johannes Brahms
String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18
Philharmonie Austin Chamber Players
Violin: Emily Dupere, Evan Few, Joseph Tan, Paul Grobey
Viola: Nicole Divall, Aniela Eddy
Cello: Steuart Pincombe, Mark Dupere
Thursday, August 28, 2025 at 7:30 pm
$40 General | $35 Senior | $10 Student
Arts on Alexander
2111 Alexander Ave
Austin, TX 78702
Philharmonie Austin Chamber Players is a period instrument ensemble that has been bringing exciting chamber music performances to Austin for the past five years.
Under the musical direction of cellist Mark Dupere, the group explores this amazing repertoire for strings.
Meet Philharmonie Austin Chamber Players
Emily Dupere violin
Australian violinist Emily Dupere has performed as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player throughout Europe, the USA, and Australia. She has performed with The English Baroque Soloists, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Les Passions de l’âme, Haagsche Hofmuziek, Les Inventions, Bach Collegium Japan, Anima Eterna Brugge, Madison Bach Musicians, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, as an Emerging Artist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and with the award-winning Sartory String Quartet.
Emily has been the concertmaster of Philharmonie Austin for the past ten years, performing a broad range of orchestral and chamber music on period instruments from Baroque to Late Romantic. She has worked with artists such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Maasaki Suzuki, Malcolm Bilson, Anton Nel, Petra Somlai, Shunske Sato, Steuart Pincombe, Mark Dupere and Jaap Ter Linden. Emily studied with Paul Wright, Kati Debretzeni, Walter Reiter and Ryo Terakado. She currently loves spending most of her time raising her three young children.
Evan Few violin
Atlanta native Evan Few has established himself as a leader in his generation of historical performance specialists, having studied and performed repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to Gershwin on period instruments. Evan is equally adept as music director, chamber soloist, and orchestral player, and has performed on stages across the globe with some of its most esteemed early music ensembles, including Anima Eterna Brugge, Bach Collegium Japan, and the Taverner Consort. In addition to his work with Philharmonie Austin, Evan is a core member of the Carmel Bach Festival, Associate Concertmaster of Atlanta Baroque, and violinist and co-founder of Filament. Evan lives in Philadelphia and is a devoted home cook, plant dad, and practitioner and teacher of Hatha Yoga.
Joseph Tan violin
Based since 1997 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, violinist Joseph Tan maintains an active performing and recording schedule as a member of ensembles such as the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Anima Eterna Brugge, Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco, Holland Baroque, and the Australian Classical and Romantic Orchestra (ARCO), working regularly with pioneers in the field of historical performance such as Ton Koopman, Jos van Immerseel, and Reinhard Goebel.
After receiving a Bachelor of Music degree in modern violin from the University of Texas at Austin, Joseph studied Baroque violin with Marilyn McDonald at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he earned a M.M. degree in 1997. From 1997-2001, he studied with Monica Huggett and Elizabeth Wallfisch at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague.
Paul Grobey violin
Paul Grobey is Assistant Professor of Music at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri, where he is the Director of Orchestral Studies, string area chair, and instructor of applied violin and viola. Paul has been a member of Philharmonie Austin since 2019. His principal violin instructor was Julia Bushkova, with whom he earned a Bachelor of Music Performance from the University of North Texas in 2012. He holds degrees in orchestral conducting from Ithaca College and the University of Texas at Austin. His doctoral work was a detailed study of the orchestral music of Finnish composer Leevi Madetoja.
Nicole Divall viola
Violist Nicole Divall was a core member of the Australian Chamber Orchestra from 2005 to 2020. She has held the position of Principal Viola with the Ohio Chamber Orchestra, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Cleveland–San Jose Ballet, Cleveland Opera, and Sydney Philharmonia. Divall is currently a core member of the Four Nations Ensemble and has appeared as Guest Principal with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, and, more recently, Handel & Haydn Society, Orchestra of St Luke’s, Atlanta Baroque, Philharmonia Austin, and Albany Symphony. Since her return from Australia in 2021 Nicole has appeared as soloist with New York Baroque Incorporated, and at the Baldwin Wallace University Bach Festival, and with Apollo’s Fire on the Viola and Viola D’Amore. She was Principal Viola of Apollo’s Fire from 1998to 2004 and resumed her tenure in that position in 2021.
Aniela Eddy viola
Aniela Eddy is a dynamic performer whose vibrant, expressive playing has captivated audiences throughout North America and Europe. She performs with leading ensembles including Seraphic Fire, Voices of Music, Trinity Baroque, TENET, Novus, New York Classical Players, and Orchestra of St. Luke’s. A graduate of The Juilliard School and Cleveland Institute of Music, she is a founding member of Quartet Salonnières and Relic Ensemble. Aniela has been featured live on NPR with Garrison Keillor and A Prairie Home Companion, and has appeared at renowned festivals such as the Lucerne Festival, Carmel Bach Festival, and Göttingen International Handel Festival. Equally fluent in baroque and modern styles, she thrives in a multifaceted career spanning centuries of musical tradition.
Steuart Pincombe cello
American cellist Steuart Pincombe quickly made a name for himself as an exquisite interpreter of early and contemporary music who was keen to experiment. Steuart is regularly featured as a soloist and chamber musician in leading venues across North America and Europe, including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Concertgebouw Brugge, RADIALSYSTEM V Berlin, Bozar Brussels, Tivoli Vredenburg, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, and the Kauffman Center, but he is equally at home playing in your local cafe or brewery. His playing has garnered wide acclaim from the public and critics alike: The Philadelphia Inquirer calls him “a gorgeous player with perfect intonation, imaginative phrasing,” The Strad Magazine refers to him as a “superb soloist,” virtuoso cellist Giovanni Sollima calls Steuart “a complete artist, true virtuoso and poet, totally at ease with all languages and musical styles,” and an audience member once said “You’da asked me a week ago if I’sa gonna be here, I’da said ‘hell no’. Well I’m here - and I love this stuff [Bach]”.
In addition to his numerous chamber engagements, Mr. Pincombe has appeared as soloist with ensembles such as Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop (Denmark), Holland Baroque (Netherlans), Wallfisch Band (United Kingdom), Symphonie Atlantique (NL), Apollo’s Fire (U.S.), and the Springfield, Missouri Symphony. His concert “Bach&Beer” was selected by the Cleveland Plain Dealer as one of the “Top 10 Classical Events of the Year” and a concert in which he appeared as soloist with Rene Schiffer and Apollo's Fire was numbered in London's “5 Best Classical Music Moments of 2014” according to The Telegraph (UK). If you can't hear him live, Steuart makes regular appearances on radio and has been featured on BBC, CBC, NPO, and NPR and has recently begun recording for 7 Mountain Records in Amsterdam.
With the aim of equipping other leading artists to engage with new audiences, Steuart and his wife Michelle started the Music in Familiar Spaces Artist Collective, which is made up of some of the leading performers of our time. Steuart and Michelle moved to Missouri to start a small, off-grid farm.
Mark Dupere cello
Conductor and cellist Mark Dupere is Associate Professor of Music at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, where he is the Director of Orchestral Studies and conductor of the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra. Dupere is also the conductor of Philharmonie Austin, an exciting period instrument orchestra comprised of top performers from across the US. As a cellist, Dupere has performed throughout Europe as an orchestral and chamber musician. He has performed with Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Haagsche Hofmuzieck, Anima Eterna and as an apprentice with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in London. Dupere was an “Emerging Artist” at the Victoria Bach Festival, performed in the Leipzig Bach Competition, and was recently named a national finalist in the American Prize in Conducting.