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Fifth Turkish Music Festival: ‘Sounds of Anatolia’

Asia Society Texas Center 1370 Southmore Blvd., Houston, TX, United States

Asia Society Texas, American Turkish Association-Houston, and Hoppa Project present Sounds of Anatolia, from the fifth annual Turkish Music Festival, a multi-day musical event dedicated to sharing a wide range of Eastern European music styles to audiences in Houston. In this vibrant evening, Kinetic Ensemble, composer Erberk Eryılmaz, virtuoso clarinetist Ismail Lumanovski, and trombonist Dilan […]

$30 – $35

DACAMERA’s A Little Day Music

Wortham Theater Center - Lobby 501 Texas at Smith, Houston, TX, United States

DACAMERA Young Artists kick off this season’s A Little Day Music series with a celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. DACAMERA Young Artists Chloe De Souza, piano; Julie Lin, violin; Jimena Montserrat, soprano; James Palmer, piano; Sebastian Stoger, cello Gabriela Lena Frank: Four Folk Songs Manuel de Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas Carlos Chavez: Valses intimos […]

Free

Conrad Tao, Piano

Wortham Theater Center - Cullen Theater 501 Texas Ave., Houston, TX, United States

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.

$29

Vibrant Voices

Asia Society Texas Center 1370 Southmore Blvd., Houston, TX, United States

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 […]

Free

Kinetic Ensemble “Traditions Reimagined”

MATCH Houston (Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston) 3400 Main St., Houston, TX, United States

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 […]

$30

LIBERTY by Apollo Chamber Players

Hobby Center - Zilkha Hall 800 Bagby, Houston, TX, United States

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 […]

$39.50

Voices Take Flight

Concert with a variety of great contemporary pieces and spirituals that will bring joy and pleasure.

Canciones de mi Tierra: Showcasing Mexico’s indigenous heritage through music and dance!

Leonel J. Castillo Community Center 2101 South St, Houston, TX, United States

"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 […]

Free

Risky(er) Business

Axiom Quartet 1703 Heights Blvd, Houston, United States

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 […]

Maria, dolce Maria: Virtuosic Violin Music by Female Composers from 17th-Century

First Lutheran 1311 Holman St, Houston, TX

The earliest music for violin at the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque were arrangements of vocal music to which the performers added improvised, virtuosic ornamentation, so-called diminutions. You are in for a virtuosic firework—set off upon fascinating early 17th-century masterworks by female composers Caterina Assandra, Sulpitia Cesis, Alba Tressina, and Claudia Rusca—by our […]

$40

Monarch Chamber Players: A Glimpse Beyond Pink

Lambert Hall 1703 Heights Blvd, Houston, TX, United States

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 […]

Free