freelancing

Introducing... the Mistura Quartet. Violinist and cellist are music grad students at SMU, violist is a Juilliard/Yale graduate, and yours truly on violin/guitar.

I'm finally getting back into performing(!) after a year-long hiatus from all music due to this thing called med school. There's a live music bar/club downtown called Pearl, and the owners just really love live music in general. Each night of the week has a different theme/genre (rock, jazz, salsa, Irish, blues, "international," classical, etc.) We'll be playing there regularly all year on Sunday classical nights, with our own original acoustic rock, Broadway, jazz, etc. arrangements thrown in for fun. I met the owners last week and they seem awesome; the bar itself is all black leather and sleek chrome. There's also a VIP room and an upstairs gallery for local artists.

The official grand opening is this Saturday night. We take the stage Sunday night, Aug. 13 at 8pm. I'm so excited I'd probably do it just for fun... but I certainly won't complain about being paid (and we keep a cut of the bar tabs too! and tips!) Maybe this might even give me a life outside of med school... hello artsy types in downtown Dallas.