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 […]
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 […]
Join Monarch Chamber Players for a special concert at Lambert Hall in honor of Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) Awareness Day. The program offers a small glimpse into the complex world of MBC patients through music that highlights life’s complexity, solace in nature, and the necessity of community. Cynthia, a commission by Nicky Sohn inspired by […]
In honor of Czech Heritage Month, Apollo Chamber Players celebrate the bicentennial of Bedrich Smetana’s birth with chamber music by this beloved Bohemian composer. Program features his fiery First String Quartet and masterful Piano Trio.
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