Get Ready for the 2022 B. Iden Payne Awards

The full list of nominees before Monday's award ceremony

"...Allen Robertson, Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch, ZACH Theatre Peter Stopschinski, Lardo Weeping, Local Opera Local Artists..."

Oct. 22, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Wayne Alan Brenner's 10 Favorite Arts-Related Things of 2019

Kinetic performances and galleries mounting great show after great show kept the year exciting

"...4) GRAGERIART (Rude Mechs) Lana Lesley and Peter Stopschinski have turned their jokey dramatic-reading-of-the-IKEA-catalog-while-passing-time-on-an-airplane into a fully..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Turning Lipstick Traces Into a Graphic Novel

Lana Lesley adapts the Rude Mechs' punk spectacle to the printed page

"...myself. Plus, I was totally inspired by my partner, Peter Stopschinski: he had just finished an art book and..."

May 29, 2019 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Mary Moody Northen Theatre's Violet

In this moving production, a young woman learns the nature of true beauty and true love

"...more than risen to meet the challenge. Music director Peter Stopschinski and vocal coach Adam Roberts ensure pitch-perfect performances..."

April 20, 2018 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Street Corner Arts' Grounded

Every element of this production works together to get us inside the head of a troubled military flyer

"...to specific song edits, including a hilarious piece by Peter Stopschinski (performed by Lana Lesley) that is better left..."

April 13, 2018 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

LOLA's La Clemenza di Tito: A Retelling

The quality of mercy is never not strained in this new adaptation of Mozart's late opera

"...to Mozart's score, kept light and lively by conductor/arranger Peter Stopschinski and a fine fourpiece chamber ensemble, I heard..."

March 9, 2018 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Golden Hornet’s String Quartet Smackdown IV

In this “hoot” of a competition, every one of the 16 compositions was a gem, but only one was voted the champion

"...duly reviewed the merits of each matchup's winner. Co-emcee Peter Stopschinski couldn't help admiring the "saucy dissonances" on aural..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Drums & Tuba Reunite in Austin

Homegrown breakouts’ prep first local show in over a decade

"...their new album Titular. Before them, alt-alt-alt classical composer Peter Stopschinski and Rude Mechs’ Lana Lesley open the show..."

Sept. 5, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Mary Moody Northen Theatre's She Loves Me

This production at St. Edward's University knows just how to bring forth this modest musical's many charms

"...such small but carefully crafted moments, strung together by Peter Stopschinski's joyful music direction, Leilah Stewart's clever set-pieces, Susan..."

April 15, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Lust for Life

The 2015/16 Austin Music Awards' bedrock mania

"...it as refereed by Brown Whörnet/Golden Hornet Project composer Peter Stopschinski and actual v-i-o-l-i-n-i-s-t Jenavieve Varga changing the tires..."

March 11, 2016 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Critics Table Awards 2014

"...Composer Peter Stopschinski accepts the Choral Performance Award for "Mozart Requiem..."

June 3, 2014 Photo Gallery

The Art of Dining

Digestible Feats makes meaning out of meals

"...ritual awash in music composed for the occasion by Peter Stopschinski, will feature nondenominational prayers written by Kirk Lynn..."

April 19, 2013 Food Feature by Amy Gentry

Art To Enchant

The winners of the 2010-11 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...I've Never Been So Happy, Kirk Lynn and Peter Stopschinski Music Direction..."

June 10, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

I've Never Been So Happy

The Rude Mechs' musical tall tale leads to a song that leaves your jaw on the floor

"...Again, about the final song: It is earned. Composer Peter Stopschinski, who co-wrote the lyrics with Kirk Lynn, has..."

April 29, 2011 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Flush

Ariel Dance Theatre's Gyre Project ends on a visually thrilling but confusing note

"...Sadly, the coolly dynamic score by Graham Reynolds and Peter Stopschinski suggests choreographic opportunities that are unused. The exception..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

A Shadow of Light

Musicians get away with revamping one another's work all the time – and it's great

"...hymn, Felix Mendelssohn on Bach, and our very own Peter Stopschinski on Carl Orff. (Orff's Good Fortune, which draws..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Rude Mechs

The Rudes' next show gets tapped for a prestigious New Play Development Project

"...is that it's a musical with a score by Peter Stopschinski and book and lyrics by Kirk Lynn and..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Five.Two.Ten

Ariel Dance Theatre's latest creates something original, moving, and truly beautiful

"...Ariel-Ochoa dance, the always present, truly outstanding music of Peter Stopschinski and Graham Reynolds, and the finest lighting design..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Shostakovich 100

The year-long celebration Shostakovich 100 continues, and here's where to get your fix of the Russian composer's music through the rest of this winter

"...Shostakovich, with composers Graham Reynolds (Golden Arm Trio) and Peter Stopschinski (Brown Whornet) leading Chuck Fischer (percussion), John Dexter..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Detour

Ariel Dance Theatre's new work Detour' blends dance and drama, humor and gravity, to tell of brushes with death that bring people back to life

"...is fed by a propulsive urgency in the score. Peter Stopschinski's percussive piano, its tempo steadily increasing, suggests a..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Ariel Dance Theatre in Concert

With Ariel Dance Theatre in Concert, the collaboration between the ever-energetic, always searching, always stretching herself Andrea Ariel and composers Graham Reynolds and Peter Stopschinski and operatic soprano Cheryl Parrish generated the heat and light of a pure flame that was bright and intense and exhilarating to see.

"...but feel threatened by. The original music composed by Peter Stopschinski and Graham Reynolds was often thick with foreboding:..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

A flood of weather (and music) following SXSW

"...and the Bullet Boys on May 26; Journey and Peter Frampton on June 9; Rod Stewart on June 22;..."

March 30, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Super-Eight 2000

"...All will be projected with live musical accompaniment by Peter Stopschinski of Brown Whörnet. The program will be followed..."

May 31, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Mozart Requiem Undead'

April 16, 2014. 10 photos.

"...Requiem Undead – masterminded by Golden Hornet Project leaders Peter Stopschinski and Graham Reynolds – kicked off the 2014..."

April 17, 2014 Photo Gallery

Golden Hornet Project: Wolfgang-nam Style

'Amadeus' screening fundraiser for 'Mozart's Requiem Undead'

"...him? But he doesn't, and isn't that a shame? Peter Stopschniski thought so and decided the Golden Hornet Project..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

German Masters Hoot Night

Club de Ville, Aug. 15

"...misfits. This night was pulled together fairly quickly, but Peter Stopschinski, the Golden Arm Trio, and the Invincible Czars..."

Aug. 21, 2009 Music Review by Audra Schroeder

Off the Record

The renovated Austin Music Hall breaks new ground; Brown Whörnet goes digital; and Roky Erickson rocks Austin City Limits with a little help from his friends

"...studio time, the engineer, and the printing," says maestro Peter Stopschinski, better known as Run PMS. "Now that we..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Music Column by Austin Powell

Golden Hornet Project

In Box

"...namely Graham Reynolds from the Golden Arm Trio and Peter Stopschinski of Brown Whörnet. Hybrid is an excellent concept..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Music Review by David Lynch

Fast Forward Austin Does Compute

New-music champions science the shit out of its upcoming concert with The Difference Engine

"...the Bel Cuore Sax Quartet, Convergence, Invoke, Density512, and Peter Stopschinski. Fast Forward Austin co-founder Steven Snowden says that..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dancing About Architecture

Checking up on SIMS and their $216K, checking in on Lyle Lovett's broken leg, and Tyler Harwood checks out of the Zulu as Kono and the Peenbeets.

"...of Tyler Harwood," came the missive from Brown Whörnet's Peter Stopschinski, who added brusquely, "He's not leaving. That's just..."

April 5, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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