Parashkevov-Kislenko Recital
Violinist Chavdar Parashkevov and pianist Natasha Kislenko will perform a recital of works by Richard Strauss and George Gershwin. Read more
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Mind The Gap
Dance Source Houston, in collaboration with MATCH, presents the second Mind The Gap performance of the 2018-19 season, featuring an evening of works by local choreographers and collectives including Tuesday Boswell, Laura Harrell, Cassie Hobbs, Saliya Ilankoon, Ty Lewis, Jennifer Salter, and Transitory Sound and Movement Collective. Read more
Double Bill: WindSync and Invoke
WindSync is joined by their friends in invoke, an Austin-based string quartet, for a meeting of the minds. Invoke performs as a standard string quartet on violin, viola, and cello, but they are just as comfortable with mandolin or banjo. The band's music encompasses traditions from across America, including bluegrass, Appalachian fiddle tunes, jazz, and minimalism. This Onstage Offstage Chamber Music Festival main stage concert offers an up-close and personal look at musical collaboration.Read more
Clarinet Quintets by Mozart and Brahms
For this concert, Houston Symphony Co-Concertmaster and Musica Tra Amici founder, Eric Halen, will be joined by several of his Houston Symphony Colleagues to perform the Clarinet quintets by Mozart and Brahms. Read more
Spheres of Influence
WindSync partners with the Lunar and Planetary Institute to combine music and space in this follow up to 2017's hit Voyager concert program. A speaker from the Lunar and Planetary Institute will present a mini-lecture about the Apollo moon missions, and WindSync will premiere music by Marc Mellits that honors the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The hard-driving rhythms of Mellits' minimalist, funk-inflected music recall the technological obsession of the Space Race and the music styles emerging in the 1960s. Read more
Origins
WindSync celebrates its tenth season with a program that explores origins. The featured work, Antoine Reicha’s ebullient E-flat major quintet, represents the very beginning of classical music for the band’s five instruments. The second half of the program takes inspiration from childhood and folklore and showcases WindSync's ability to transform music originally written for piano, strings, and even a full orchestra. Read more
The Band Gray
Michael Holman, co-founded GRAY with artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1979. GRAY, an electronic art-noise band, features members Holman and & Nick Taylor. Together they create sound and music from unexpected places, in unexpected ways. GRAY uses synthesizers, film, electric hand tools anything that can be harnessed to create beautiful sounds and music. The music is accompanied by visual arts from Holman's personal collection of art, photos and filmed underground performances by b-boys and break-dancers with appearances by Jean-Michel Basquiat.Read more
MET too and MET ensemble "Open House"
Come and see the talented 14 MET too Youth Company members and the 6 MET ensemble members as they perform works by choreographers Sam Burkett, Joe Celej, Tammy Dyke Compton, Andres De Blust Mommaerts, Marlana Doyle, Eric Handman, Max Jones, Joshua Manculich, Genene McGrath and Terrill Mitchell! One night only!Read more
Bach's Brandenburg 5
Period-flute expert David Ross and noted harpsichordist Mario Aschauer join concertmaster Jonathan Godfrey and Mercury Chamber Orchestra for J.S. Bach’s sublime fifth Brandenburg Concerto as well as flute favorites by Telemann and Bach’s son, Carl Philipp Emanuel – in your neighborhood!Read more
Mr. Popper's Penguins
It is hard enough for Mr. Popper, a simple painter, to support himself and his family. The addition of twelve penguins makes it impossible to make both ends meet – until Mr. Popper has the splendid idea to turn the talented penguins into a traveling vaudeville act! The entire family will be tapping along with Mr. Popper and his “performing” feathered friends. A holiday treat for the whole family!Read more
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