Matthew Swihart served as Assistant Professor of high brass and music theory at Nicholls State University in Louisiana. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in trumpet performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music. Matt has studied at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, and SUNY Stony Brook. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the Hochschule fur Musik in Detmold, Germany from 2001 to 2003. Matthew was a member of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in the summer of 1997 and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra in the summer of 1999. He was awarded 3rd prize in the International Trumpet Guild Solo Competition both in 1995 and 1998. Matthew has performed with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Opera Orchestra, the Tacoma Philharmonic, and the Eastman Virtuosi. Matthew’s primary instructors include Armando Ghitalla, Max Sommerhalder, and James Thompson. He has performed under the batons of Seiji Ozawa, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Christoph Eschenbach.

Live performances by Dr. Swihart can be heard in a variety of chamber music settings on his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@matthewswihart/videos

Wing Lam (Sarah) Au is a Horn performer and educator based in Austin, TX. Dr. Au regularly performs with several regional orchestras in Texas, including the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra, Temple Symphony Orchestra, Central Texas Philharmonic, and Symphony of Southeast Texas. A proponent of new music, she is a frequent collaborator with Austin-based new music ensemble Density512 and has also appeared with the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. Her performances have taken her across the world, including concerts in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Dr. Au has received fellowships to attend the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Atlantic Music Festival, Round Top Music Festival, and Norfolk Music Festival. She received an honorable mention at the 2016 Mid-South Horn Solo Competition, and was a quarterfinalist in the 2017 Fischoff Competition with the woodwind quintet, li5ten.

Dr. Au currently serves as Adjunct Associate Professor of Horn at Austin Community College and as Adjunct Horn Instructor at Texas A&M – Kingsville. A committed arts advocate, she is a founding Board member of the Austin Brass Collective, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization dedicated to bringing excellent and accessible brass performance and educational experiences to the Central Texas community.

Dr. Au holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from The University of Texas at Austin, where she served as Teaching Assistant for the Horn Studio in 2016-17 and received a Diversity Continuing Fellowship. She also holds an Orchestral Performance Certificate from Manhattan School of Music, a Master of Music from Yale University as well as degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts.

David Hummel is an active performer, educator, and music advocate in the greater Austin, Texas area. While getting his performance and education degrees at Texas Tech University under Dr. Kevin Wass, he held the principal tuba chair of the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra from 2007-2009 as well as substitute tuba with the Big Spring Orchestra. He received his Master’s Degree in tuba performance from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in 2011 with Professor Dan Perantoni. During his time at IU, he competed in the International Tuba and Euphonium Conferences’s quartet competition, as well as the mock band audition, making it to the semi-final round in both.

Since 2011, he has taught privately in Austin, Texas for some of the most well renowned middle and high school programs in the state of Texas, such as Henry Middle School, Cedar Park Middle and High Schools, Vandegrift High School, and Vista Ridge High Schools. He has had numerous All-State musicians over the years across multiple different school classifications. In 2021, he had his first student place in the Student Division of the Falcone Solo Competition and in 2018 he presented a clinic at the Texas Music Educators Association, along with Kevin Wass, advocating for the presence of chamber music in the educational careers of young tuba and euphonium players.

Since 2013, he has been co-founder and director of a summer tuba and euphonium festival called Teupha Camp. Since its start, it’s grown from a single camp of less than 30 participants to multiple events throughout the school year for the tuba and euphonium students of Texas like mock auditions, outdoor single day camps, and a summer camp pushing a hundred students. Teupha camp brings the joy and educational power of chamber music to those two instruments in a way that those students wouldn’t have experienced otherwise.

David has been the principal tubist of the Central Texas Philharmonic since 2011 and is a founding member of the Austin Brass Collective. He lives in Leander, Texas with his wife Britni and their dog Dixie.