DACAMERA Hosts Jason Moran presents Duke Ellington: My Heart Sings

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

Duke Ellington looms large as one of the most important composers, bandleaders and pianists of the 20th century. Experience the timeless genius of Ellington’s music, brilliantly reimagined by pianist Jason Moran, in this extraordinary celebration of the composer’s enduring legacy, 125 years after his birth. Guided by the composer’s great canon, Moran takes a solo […]

DACAMERA Presents Merz Trio “Night Songs”

Menil Collection 1515 Sul Ross, Houston, TX, United States

Hailed as “entrancing” (BBC Music Magazine) and “artists in the deepest sense of the word” (CutCommon), Merz Trio – winners of the Naumburg, Concert Artists Guild, Fischoff and Chesapeake Competitions – are known for their inventive programming. Join Merz Trio as they search for song in night’s darkness. Beginning with the 12th century chants spun […]

DACAMERA Presents Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, Marcus Gilmore

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

One of the most lyrical and intimate voices of contemporary jazz piano, Brad Mehldau has forged a unique path, which embodies the essence of jazz exploration, classical romanticism and pop allure. His forays into melding musical idioms, in both trio and solo settings, has seen brilliant re-workings of songs by The Beatles, Cole Porter, Radiohead, […]

DACAMERA Presents Meta4 Quartet

Menil Collection 1515 Sul Ross, Houston, TX, United States

Meta4 returns to DACAMERA with a dynamic program of vivid musical contrasts. DACAMERA’s dear friend, the great Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023), is remembered with a performance of her second quartet, Terra Memoria; composed “for those departed,” the work is deeply moving in its hypnotic exploration of memory, loss and transformation. Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 4 […]

DACAMERA Presents Lizz Wright

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

Through an inimitable voice that The New York Times touts as “a smooth, dark alto possessed of qualities you might associate with barrel-aged bourbon or butter-soft leather,” acclaimed vocalist and songwriter Lizz Wright’s singing is a soaring reflection of the cultural fabric of America. Wright is one of the great modern American singers, with an […]