The Real Reason
It's a few weeks before Christmas, the Duncan family is excited as it's their year to host the Big Family Christmas Celebration Fellowship. Everything is going well until... Read more
It's a few weeks before Christmas, the Duncan family is excited as it's their year to host the Big Family Christmas Celebration Fellowship. Everything is going well until... Read more
Join us for a special free concert and fundraiser to benefit the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) organized by Eva Ngu.
Concert is free with RSVP.Read more
Intempo Dance Ensemble is honored to present a very select group of outstanding professionals in the music and dance arts who lived their lives on stage with director Mata. Read more
Intempo Dance Ensemble is honored to present the Eddy Marcano and Quartet Onda Nueva in concert honoring Director Eduardo Mata's love for the Latin American music.
Concert in loving memory of our TX Symphonic Ballet member - Lillian McLean.
A quartet of world known musicians performing delightful Latin American music under Mr. Eddy Marcano's direction. Mr. Romero's drums along with Mr. Morao's soothing piano, Mr. Puentes rhythmic bass and Mr. Marcano's warmth violin. All serving as a musical-notes frame for a very selected list of guest artists paying a tribute to Mr. Mata with singing and playing music from different Latin American Cultures which Director Mata had a special love bond with. Meanwhile, TX Symphonic Ballet will be decorating the ambience with dance pieces that bring reminiscense of Director Mata's conducting for full staged dancing programs.
A very special outstanding music night spent with Director Mata's friends, students and admirers of his magnificent work and legacy. Read more
In tribute to Director Eduardo Mata, Intempo Dance Ensemble presents the Texas Latin Chamber Orchestra.
A very selected talented group of musicians get together to found the Texas Hispanic Chamber Orchestra. These outstanding international performers have chosen the Director Mata Tribute Week to present their Orchestra PREMIER in the city of Houston by playing the Mr. Mata's loved pieces from Latin American magnificent music repertoire Maestro Mata once conducted around the world. A night to love and remember.
Maestro Servio Bernal, Guest Director
Soloists
Manuel Rojas, Flute
Eddy Marcano, ViolinRead more
International award-winning concert pianist Evelyn Chen joins Eric and Brinton, Musica Tra Amici artistic directors, in a program featuring Maurice Ravel's beloved piano trio, a masterpiece of French Impressionism, paired with with the beautiful piano trio of Russian romantic composer Anton Arensky, a link between the worlds of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. Evan, Musica Tra Amici's general manager, will lead a discussion with Brinton and Evelyn and Eric that will include the perils and benefits of working together as (and with) a married couple!Read more
In its 5th year, the Houston Greek Film Festival (HGFF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that showcases new films from Greek and Cypriot filmmakers, producers and actors from Greece, Cyprus and the diaspora. Featuring both feature-length and shorts, the HGFF aims to promote Greek cinema to Houston and all of Texas and the Southwest!Read more
At the turn of the 17th Century, English people of every station were known to have practiced the occult arts, from alchemy and the Cabala to homespun spells and witchcraft. Join Severall Friends as they enchant with excerpts from contemporary diaries, diatribes, drama, poetry, and music, touching on magic of all sorts.Read more
Director Sergio Bernal presents his "tutor," Director Eduardo Mata fascinating history through a life of conducting.
Director Eduardo Mata, Mexican native but World Citizen, took the Latin American contemporary music to higher levels around the world. Mr. Mata served as Director, Musician, Conductor, Composer, Cofounder of the Mahler Society Mexico, Resident Director of Phoenix Symphonic, Guest Director of the London Symphonic and Director of the Dallas Symphonic Orchestra. His work in Venezuela allowed him the opportunity to direct the Youth Symphonic Simon Bolivar Orchestra many times. From his passion for developing young musicians in Venezuela he was awarded the Andres Bello Award in Music in 1989.
Sergio Bernal, a native Colombian and outstanding Latin American conductor, composer, and teacher, will take us by the hand and lead us through Director Mata's life experiences and colorful history. Director Bernal, Director of Orchestral Studies, and a Professor of Music at Utah State University, was an apprentice to the late Maestro Eduardo Mata at the Dallas Symphony and subsequently works as his assistant in recording projects of the Ibero-American symphonic repertoire.Read more
Change Happens! and IMPACT Collective bring to you a powerful and poignant documentary known as "Connecting the Dots," the first feature documentary of its kind to offer a raw and intimate look at youth mental health from a global perspective. With heartfelt poignant stories of lived experience, the film exclusively showcases young voices breaking barriers surrounding youth mental health. Through highly cinematic and youth character-driven storytelling, Connecting the Dots is emotional, reflective, and hopeful, and highlights youth mental health globally.Read more