{"id":13379,"date":"2025-10-21T05:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/13379\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T05:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T05:09:07","slug":"dallas-symphonys-christopher-adkins-to-perform-at-howard-payne-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/13379\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Symphony’s Christopher Adkins to perform at Howard Payne University"},"content":{"rendered":"

BROWNWOOD, Texas \u2014 Howard Payne University’s School of Education and Fine Arts will host a special guest recital featuring Christopher Adkins, principal cellist of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, on November 11.<\/p>\n

The concert, which includes members of the HPU Department of Music, will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Grace Chapel and is free to the public.<\/p>\n

Adkins will collaborate with pianist Dr. Jacob Skiles and clarinetist Stephen Goacher. The program will feature works by composers such as Ludwig van Beethoven, J.S. Bach, and Robert Schumann.<\/p>\n

This event is supported by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Principal Chair Endowment Program and the Center for Rural and Small School Music Education.<\/p>\n

RELATED | Howard Payne University launches new research center<\/a><\/p>\n

Adkins, who studied at the University of North Texas and Yale University, has held prestigious positions with the New Haven Symphony and the Denver Symphony.<\/p>\n

He returned to Dallas in 1987 to occupy the principal chair once held by his former teacher, Lev Aronson.<\/p>\n

Adkins also serves on the faculty of Southern Methodist University and is an active performer in the region. He was nominated for a Grammy with the contemporary music group Voices of Change for the recording “Voces Americanas.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROWNWOOD, Texas \u2014 Howard Payne University’s School of Education and Fine Arts will host a special guest recital…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11131,11129,11126,5350,102,104,103,11127,11128,11130,9533],"class_list":["post-13379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-beethoven","tag-cellist-recital","tag-christopher-adkins","tag-classical-music","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-symphony","tag-howard-payne-university","tag-music-education","tag-southern-methodist-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}