The 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tyshawn Sorey returns to Houston with a major new work for solo piano composed for Sarah Rothenberg. Sorey and Rothenberg’s deep musical relationship grew out of their work together on the DACAMERA-Rothko Chapel commission of “Monochromatic Light (Afterlife),” and it was during their performances at New York’s Park Avenue Armory […]
The 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tyshawn Sorey returns to Houston with a major new work for solo piano composed for Sarah Rothenberg. Sorey and Rothenberg’s deep musical relationship grew out of their work together on the DACAMERA-Rothko Chapel commission of “Monochromatic Light (Afterlife),” and it was during their performances at New York’s Park Avenue Armory […]
Enjoy Baroque gems by Vivaldi, Telemann, and Handel in a dynamic concert featuring recorder virtuoso Vincent Lauzer. Experience the recorder’s sonic beauty and musical fireworks at Miller. Free admission! Additionally, the concert will include Baroque compositions by Telemann, Haydn, and Handell, all performed on historical instruments, recreating the composers’ intended sounds. This multimedia concert will […]
Enjoy Baroque gems by Vivaldi, Telemann, and Handel in a dynamic concert featuring recorder virtuoso Vincent Lauzer. Experience the recorder’s sonic beauty and musical fireworks at Miller. Free admission! Additionally, the concert will include Baroque compositions by Telemann, Haydn, and Handell, all performed on historical instruments, recreating the composers’ intended sounds. This multimedia concert will […]
The Moores School of Music celebrates the opening of the new season with COLLAGE – one of its most beloved traditions. Experience a menagerie of performances featuring orchestra, band, choir, jazz, percussion, mariachi, the Spirit of Houston and more! To learn more about the various performing ensembles offered by the Moores School of Music, please […]
Although Anton Bruckner was one the most visionary symphonic composers at the end of the nineteenth century, his biography continues to be dominated by anecdotes about his eccentric personality. Lesser known is the fact that he composed his sacred choral music as a celebrated organist and choir director for performances alongside works of the old […]
Unplug and contemplate on matters current and incessant, with eclectic sounds spanning from Joseph Haydn to Arvo Pärt. Curated to accompany John Slaby’s show “Adam and Eve and the iPhone,” this program reflects on life, death, and legacy.
DACAMERA Young Artists present a concert inspired by the Museum of Fine Arts, HoustonÕs Albert and Ethel Herzstein Gallery for Judaica.
The Shepherd School celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month with a Spanish-language recital performed by faculty member and international opera star Ana María Martínez and opera department students. General admission free tickets are required and available here – https://music.rice.edu/events/noche-espanola-ana-maria-martinez-friends The Shepherd School rinde homenaje a la historia y cultura latina durante el Mes Nacional de Herencia […]
In La Speranza’s season opener, take a musical stroll through the royal gardens with string quartets by Mozart and Hyacinthe Jadin, two composers who earned the respect of royalty despite their short lives. Program: Jadin: String Quartet in F major, Op. 4 no. 2 Mozart: String Quartet in D Major, K. 575 Performers: Joanna Becker […]
Pianist and composer Conrad Tao and tap dancer and choreographer Caleb Teicher reimagine an Aria from Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Art Tatum’s demented stride piano, Arnold Schoenberg’s ironic take on the Viennese waltz, and more, exploring the counterpoint between their perspectives. Threading it all together, a work that bridges traditions, approaches, and styles—Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
Join Duo Dramatique (Dominika Dancewicz, violin & Andrew Schneider, piano) for a riveting evening of music and poetry. The artists will share music and words by composers and writers who evocatively express their take on various forms of political oppression, be it war, poverty, or racial and social prejudice, or who bring forth a strong […]
The 14th concert of the concert series “PONCE 243: Complete Piano Works”, featuring pianists Rodolfo Morales, Zhu Zhu, Lina Morita, and Omar Herrera Arizmendi, the founder and artistic director of the Ponce Project Foundation. This event also features winners of the 2024 Ponce International Piano Competition.
Arthouse HOUSTON aka Friends of River Oaks Theatre and Buffalo Bayou Partnership co-present a FREE outdoor screening of the satirical film Being There. In partnership with Powered by People, a community-led voter registration effort will also be included at the event. Directed by Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude, The Last Detail), Being There stars Peter […]
Celebrate National Latine Heritage Month with HOPERA’s season opener Boleros & Arias! This FREE Pint-Sized Performance is filled with sizzling hit tunes from Latin American composers such as María Grever, Consuelo Velázquez, Agustín Lara, and more! Featuring Luisana Rivas, mezzo-soprano, and Fernando Grimaldo, bass-baritone, with pianist Xuefei Liu this is a performance you will not […]
The 15th concert of the concert series “PONCE 243: Complete Piano Works”, featuring pianists Timothy Hester, Tali Morgulis, Rodrigo González Barragán, Andrew Staupe, and Omar Herrera Arizmendi, the founder and artistic director of the Ponce Project Music Foundation.
GRAMMY-nominated Baroque ensemble Ars Lyrica Houston’s season opener, In Praise of Virtue, spotlights countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, a “young star” (New York Times) and local favorite since his time in the HGO Studio. Nussbaum Cohen will share the stage with “breakout” soprano (Boston Globe) Hannah DePriest, in her Ars Lyrica debut. This program features two […]
The 16th concert of the concert series “Ponce 243: Complete Piano Works”, featuring pianists Timothy Hester, Tali Morgulis, Andrew Staupe, Rodolfo Morales, and Omar Herrera Arizmendi, the founder and artistic director of the Ponce Project Music Foundation.
Conrad Tao is the quintessential 21st century artist. Houston audiences will be among the first to experience Tao’s Carnegie Hall mainstage debut program featuring his work as a composer and Debussy’s remarkable Études.
Vibrant Voices: Musical Portraits from the Houston Asian American Archive is a unique and innovative concert experience that highlights immigrant experiences and triumphs in Houston. Join three young Houston-based composers — Victor Cui, Ethan Soledad, and Tian Qin — as they share vivid musical stories about three Houstonians: wound care doctor and post-war Vietnam refugee […]
Kinetic Ensemble opens their 10th concert season by featuring composers who have digested and transformed musical material from their immediate geographic and cultural contexts. Turkish-American composer Erberk Eryılmaz rewrites the mechanics of traditional Turkish percussion for an ensemble of piano and strings; Dutch composer Joey Roukens pulls material from old sea shanties and contemporary pop […]
Apollo Chamber Players’ season opener, LIBERTY explores this nation’s noble quest to ‘secure the blessings of liberty’ for its citizenry – and where we have fallen tragically short. Legendary actor and activist George Takei joins Apollo to tell the story of his family’s forced internment during World War II, as people of Japanese descent in […]
Concert with a variety of great contemporary pieces and spirituals that will bring joy and pleasure.
“Canciones de mi Tierra,” is a performance of music and dance, centered around the Nahuatl poetry of Jose Maria Bonilla, set to music by composer Salvador Moreno. Featuring Mexican soprano and artistic director, Priscilla Salisbury, this performance fuses Mesoamerican and Mexican dance and traditional dress with the classical tradition of vocal art song. “Canciones de […]
Risky(er) Business celebrates Dmitri Shostakovich and Nikolai Roslavets, Soviet composers whose experiments and ideologies lived on the perilous line between favor and dissent in the 1920’s-’40s: when music represented power, politics, and the perspective of the people. When putting pen to paper wasn’t just risky. It was dangerous, even subversive. Which of them toed the […]
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