A Little Day Music featuring Holiday Jazz Favorites A Little Day Music is a series of free concerts presented at noon on the first Wednesday of the month in the Grand Foyer of the Wortham Center. Each concert is designed to deliver DACAMERA’s signature programming to an audience including senior citizens, downtown professionals and students. […]
The immensely gifted drummer Terri Lyne Carrington – NEA Jazz Master and 4-time Grammy Award winner – has worked tirelessly over the last decade to advocate for inclusivity in jazz. Carrington and her bandmates delve into the Grammy-winning ‘Best Jazz Instrumental Album’ “New Standards Vol. 01,” shining a powerful light on music from great women […]
DACAMERA and The Menil Collection present Stop, Look and Listen! This Stop, Look, and Listen! program delves into the Menil Collection’s ‘Fragments of Memory,’ examining how the past influences our present experiences. DACAMERA Young Artists respond to these selected works at the Menil Drawing Institute.
Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as “powerfully adept…with a combination of brilliance and subtlety,” the Telegraph Quartet was awarded the prestigious 2016 Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Award and the Grand Prize at the 2014 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. Three great works created in turbulent times: Beethoven’s “Harp” quartet, composed during a French attack […]
Author Jeremy Eichler; Sarah Rothenberg; DACAMERA Young Artists Celebrating the DACAMERA Young Artist Program Astrid Nakamura, violin; Chris Ellis, cello; Sarah Rothenberg, piano The author of Time’s Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance comes to Houston for an evening of music and conversation. Time’s Echo, a genre-blurring meditation on […]
The 2024 Grammy Award winners are celebrating over a quarter century of music making, having led both a revolution and evolution of the wind quintet through their dynamic playing, adventurous programming, imaginative collaborations and outreach endeavors that have inspired audiences of all ages and backgrounds. The recipient of the 2022 Sphinx Medal of Excellence, Michelle […]
DACAMERA Young Artists present a concert inspired by the Museum of Fine Arts exhibition, Gaugin in the World.
After her astonishing, high-energy DACAMERA debut at Miller Outdoor Theatre, we couldn’t wait for Lakecia Benjamin – the 2024 JJA Jazz Awards Alto Saxophonist of the Year – to make her first jazz series appearance! This dynamic alto saxophonist fuses traditional conceptions of jazz, hip hop and soul. With three Grammy Award nominations for her […]
The winner of the coveted 2024 Gilmore Artist Award, the youngest pianist ever to receive this prestigious accolade, makes his first Houston appearance. At the age of 22, Alexandre Kantorow was the first French pianist to win the Gold Medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition, also receiving the Grand Prix, previously awarded only three times in […]
A Little Day Music featuring DACAMERA Young Artists This A Little Day Music concert celebrates Black History Month. A Little Day Music is a series of free concerts presented at noon on the first Wednesday of the month in the Grand Foyer of the Wortham Center. Each concert is designed to deliver DACAMERA’s signature programming […]
The members of the New York Philharmonic String Quartet are principal musicians from the esteemed orchestra. Multiple prize winners all, they have appeared as concerto soloists with the Philharmonic and orchestras around the world. American composer Florence Price was the first Black woman to have her music played by a major orchestra. Like Haydn and […]
DACAMERA and The Menil Collection welcome distinguished composer Thomas Adès, CBE, in his first Houston appearance. Recognized the world over as one of today’s greatest living composers, Adès is also active as pianist and conductor, having led award-winning performances of his operas “The Exterminating Angel” and “The Tempest” at Metropolitan Opera and beyond. His most […]
