Alumni of the Texas Music Festival have gone on to enjoy careers in all aspects of the arts, from performance to management:

• Alan Daowz, cello – member, Catrina Quartet, faculty New Mexico State University
• Richard Dowling, piano (2009 TMF soloist) – opened Dowling Music stores in Houston and in Steinway Hall in New York City. Dowling manages this entrepreneurial enterprise between his many engagements as a performing artist with the Piatigorsky Foundation and as a solo pianist.
• Phillip Freeman, trombone – member, Houston Symphony
• Aaron Goldman, flute – member, National Symphony Orchestra
• Lorento Golofeev, viola – member, Houston Grand Opera and Ballet orchestras
• Andrew Gott, bassoon – member, St. Louis Symphony
• Eric Hopkins, percussion– Assistant Timpani/Section Percussion, Utah Symphony
• Chris Johnson, violin – host of “The Afternoon Concert” and technical director of “The Front Row”, KUHF-Houston Public Radio
• Miles Maner, bassoon – Associate Principal Bassoon, Kansas City Symphony Orchestra and Principal Bassoon, Breckenridge Music Festival
• Colleen Matheu Johnson, flute/piccolo – member, Houston Ballet Orchestra
• Evan Leslie, cello – Director of Education, Da Camera of Houston
• Robert Pagan, flute – Director of Operations, New York Youth Symphony
• Chavdar Parashkevov, violin – member, Houston Grand Opera and Ballet orchestras
• Elizabeth Priestly, oboe – principal, Houston Grand Opera
• Abhijit Sengupta, viola – Artistic Director/CEO, Fontana Chamber Arts
• Zhan Shu, violin – member, Milwaukee Symphony
• Tom Siders, trumpet – Assistant Principal Trumpet, Boston Symphony Orchestra
• Amanda Swain, bassoon – principal, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra; second, Houston Ballet Orchestra; 2nd place winner of 2012 International Gillet-Fox Competition; 1st place winner of 2010 of Meg Quigly Vivaldi Competition
• Dan Zhu, violin – international soloist, Herbert Barrett mgmt.

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