Apollo Chamber Players begins its 2018/2019 Folk Diversity season with a concert that celebrates the music of Brazil. Featuring a 20x2020 WORLD PREMIERE commission and monumental collaboration with dancers of Houston Ballet and METdance.Read more
Some of the most beautiful music written in the 20th century can be found in the movies. Many of these compositions can readily stand alone as concert pieces. Eric Halen will be joined by pianist Scott Holshouser, baritone Sean Holshouser, and mezzo-soprano Brittany Halen to perform some of these beautiful compositions.Read more
The Unchambered series, which features ROCO soloists or small ensembles in an intimate setting at MATCH, opens October 6 with “Mind Games.” Premiering a new commission by composer Richard Lavenda, ROCO trumpeter Joe Foley and percussionist Matt McClung react to each other to create the shape of the piece in the moment, and the audience can also join in by voting on their phones to influence the direction of the piece.Read more
KINETIC opens its fourth season with an evocative collage of three works inspired by the captivating shapes and sounds of water, featuring works by Grace Williams, Michael Daugherty, and Daniel TemkinRead more
Aperio opens its 13th season with the southwest premiere of Douglas J. Cuomo's Savage Winter, a fiercely contemporary reimagining of Wilhelm Müller’s poetry cycle Winterreise, most famously set by Schubert.Read more
"Witches" is the bawdy, clever, nine-lives spanning musical about two women who happen to be witches, and have been so since the beginning of time. As we take a tour through their lives, we see all the highs and lows that effect the career, family, sex- and love life and of the modern day woman/witch and also how she dealt with all those same persecutions and pleasures in her several past lives as Eve, or Lady Macbeth, or Snow White's Stepqueen...Read more
Loop38 opens their 2018-19 season by bringing a focus to the physical nature of music-making with three dynamic compositions of the last decade, all written for ensemble and electronics. On the program: Maja S. K. Ratkje – And sing while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep (2013) Lewis Nielson – USW (2009) Ashley Fure – Albatross (2014)Read more
ROCO will present an evening of music and thoughtful dialogue about the role women play and the importance of diverse female voices in the arts and cultural industry.
The evening will consist of selections from ROCO’s In Concert program, titled Queen of Hearts, featuring works all composed by women, including the world premiere of a commission from Heather Schmidt, and the orchestra will be led by conductor Mei-Ann Chen. There will also be a panel discussion about the current state and future of the representation of women in the arts.Read more
ROCO’s principal flute, Brook Ferguson, is featured on “Force of Nature”. The concert showcases nature-themed music for flute, oboe, viola, cello, and piano, including George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) for electric flute, cello and amplified piano, Michael Gandolfi’s Geppetto’s Workshop, and a new commission by Stephanie Ann Boyd.Read more
A performance of some of your favorite secular and sacred Christmas Music presented by the Houston Tidelanders Barbershop Chorus, a Guest Chorus: Space City Sound Chorus, and a Very Special Guest Quartet: the 2016 Gold Medal Quartet - Forefront.Read more
