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Founded in 2015, Houston-based ensemble Kinetic is gaining increasing recognition for its dynamic, collaboratively driven performances and masterfully curated musical programs. A musician-led ensemble of young professional string players, Kinetic is committed to showcasing diverse, under represented, and newly composed classical music to communities in and beyond Houston through flexible chamber and orchestral ensemble formats. The ensemble has collaborated with numerous artistic organizations and institutions, including Musiqa, NobleMotion Dance, Houston Contemporary Dance, Archway Gallery, Flatland Gallery, Hoppa Project, Sam Houston State University, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Houston (HSPVA), Memorial High School — and more. A champion of new music by composers of our time, to date Kinetic has premiered over ten new works for string ensemble.

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Kinetic Ensemble and Yuri McCoy: “New from Old”

South Main Baptist Church 4100 Main, Houston, TX, United States

Organist Yuri McCoy joins the ensemble for a program of historical transformation. Works from the second world war escape to the baroque and beyond, including Poulenc's organ concerto, Giazotto's "rediscovery" of a supposed Albinoni adagio, and more from Andrzej Panufnik and Ruth Gipps. ——— Dubbed "Houston's Indie, Conductorless Orchestra" (Houston Public Media) and “Best Chamber […]

$30

Kinetic Ensemble and Frame Dance Productions: “At Play”

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

Join the dance with this toe-tapping performance! We close our ninth season by exploring the role of ‘play’ within the ensemble. In collaboration with Frame Dance artistic director Lydia Hance, this program invites an interplay between music and dance, culminating in a celebration of optimism and togetherness. — curated by Tonya Burton, violist, & Patricia […]

$30

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

The Strangers’ Case

Sanman Studios 1109 Providence St, Houston, TX, United States

Part of Kinetic Ensemble's series of chamber music performances in intimate venues around the city, The Strangers’ Case features a preview performance of a new work for voice and strings by composer Karim Al-Zand. Soprano Alexandra Smither will perform the excerpt, along with selections from Errollyn Wallen’s songbook. Al-Zand's "The Strangers' Case" is funded in […]

$20

Kinetic Ensemble “The Strangers’ Case”

Sanman Studios 1109 Providence St, Houston, TX, United States

The first of two chamber music performances in intimate venues around the city, The Strangers’ Case features a preview performance of a new work for voice and strings by the phenomenal Houston composer Karim Al-Zand. Firecracker performer Alexandra Smither, who last sang with Kinetic in May 2023, returns to sing the Al-Zand premiere, along with […]

$20