TMF 2018 Festival Calendar

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For nearly three decades, the Immanuel and Helen Olshan TEXAS MUSIC FESTIVAL has brought classical music’s rising stars to Houston for intensive musical study and exceptional performance. As Houston’s premier summer music festival and school, we invite you to join us throughout the month of June for stellar performances by these young musicians, our faculty artists, guest performers, and world-renowned conductors and soloists.

Our ORCHESTRA SERIES is the cornerstone of our program and our offerings. Each Saturday night features the Festival Orchestra in exciting repertoire in the Moores Opera House, while our world-class faculty are featured in chamber music each Tuesday night on our PERSPECTIVES SERIES in Dudley Recital Hall.

This year’s conductors include Music Director Franz Anton Krager and return visits by maestros Hans Graf, Horst Förster, and Carlos Spierer. Our soloists include festival favorite Timothy Hester (piano) and former Houston Grand Opera Studio member Nikolay Didenko (bass), both making their solo debuts with our orchestra.

TMF Young Artists are featured in Chamber Music concerts as well as the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition. And we are pleased to present the latest installment of the Fredell Lack Legacy Series—violinist Eden MacAdam-Somer in recital with Timothy Hester, as well as the Moores School Concert Chorale’s Bartók Competition Send Off under the direction of Betsy Cook Weber.

As our alumni continue to take their places among the great orchestras of the U.S. and the world, I invite you to hear the next generation of classical music’s rising stars at the 2018 Texas Music Festival.

Alan Austin, General and Artistic Director

Made possible by a gift from the Immanuel and Helen B. Olshan Foundation and support from the UH Moores School of Music, a part of the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts

TICKETS SINGLE ADMISSION For all Moores Opera House and Dudley Recital Hall concerts, unless noted otherwise FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA SERIES $25 general admission $15 student/senior PERSPECTIVES SERIES $20 general admission $10 student/senior TICKET PACKAGES Advance purchase

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FULL SEASON Pass (Includes 4 Orchestra Series concerts, Moores Opera House, and 4 PERSPECTIVES SERIES concerts, Dudley Recital Hall) $135 general admission $75 student/senior FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA SERIES Package (Includes all 4 Saturday performances) $80 general admission $48 student/senior PERSPECTIVES SERIES Package (Includes all 4 Tuesday performances) $64 general admission $32 student/senior GROUPS Groups of 10+ Contact the Box Office for details.

All programs and artists are subject to change.

Online ticket purchases will include an additional service charge.

Box Office Telephone: 713-743-3388 For information on upcoming Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts events, visit uh.edu/cota/events.

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Information and Tickets: www.tmf.uh.edu

FESTIVAL WEEK 1 June 5 PERSPECTIVES:

FESTIVAL WEEK 2 June 12 PERSPECTIVES:

FACULTY ARTIST CHAMBER MUSIC Tuesday, 7:30 pm | Dudley Recital Hall

FACULTY ARTIST CHAMBER MUSIC Tuesday, 7:30 pm | Dudley Recital Hall

TMF Artist Faculty perform chamber music for winds, harp, and piano by Joseph Jongen, Robert Schumann, and Erno von Dohnanyi’s Piano Quintet No. 1.

TMF Artist Faculty perform American sonatas for flute (Copland), clarinet (Bernstein), bassoon (Libby Larsen), and Schumann’s beloved Piano Quartet.

June 8 INSTITUTE OF VOCAL STUDIES Friday, 7:30 pm | Dudley Recital Hall FREE admission Building Your Craft: From Studio to Stage Semi-staged scenes from opera featuring the young artists of our vocal institute June 9 FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Saturday, 7:30 pm | Moores Opera House 6:30 pm Pre-concert performance by members of Virtuosi of Houston (Lobby); Settling the Score (Room 108) with Dr. Andrew Davis

June 16 FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Saturday, 7:30 pm | Moores Opera House 6:30 pm Pre-concert performance by members of Virtuosi of Houston (Lobby); Settling the Score (Room 108) with Dr. Andrew Davis TEXAS MUSIC FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Horst Förster | conductor Timothy Hester | piano soloist HEROIC STATEMENTS Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, “Pathetique”

TEXAS MUSIC FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Franz Anton Krager | conductor Ben May | choral preparation COSMIC BEGINNINGS Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra Holst: The Planets June 10 CYNTHIA WOODS MITCHELL YOUNG ARTIST COMPETITION Sunday, 2 pm | Dudley Recital Hall Final Round | FREE admission TMF Orchestra Fellows compete for the chance to perform as soloist with the Festival Orchestra, cash prizes, and an international appearance in Leipzig.

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TMF harp fellows perform music by Carlos Salzedo, and TMF Artist Faculty are featured in Saint-Saëns’ Sonata for Oboe and Piano and Richard Strauss’ rarely heard Quartet for Piano and Strings.

The final Perspectives concert features Richard Strauss’ Don Quixote, arranged by Laszlo Varga, for a sextet of strings, winds, and piano, as well as Zoltán Kodály’s Duo for Violin and Cello, all performed by TMF Artist Faculty.

June 19 PERSPECTIVES: FACULTY ARTIST CHAMBER MUSIC Tuesday, 7:30 pm | Dudley Recital Hall

June 21 YOUNG ARTIST CHAMBER MUSIC Thursday, 7 pm | Moores School of Music (Room 160) FREE admission

June 26 PERSPECTIVES: FACULTY ARTIST CHAMBER MUSIC Tuesday, 7:30 pm | Dudley Recital Hall

June 28 YOUNG ARTIST CHAMBER MUSIC Thursday, 7 pm | Dudley Recital Hall FREE admission

Classical music’s rising stars perform chamber music featuring TMF Percussion Fellows.

Classical music’s rising stars perform chamber music.

June 22 FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Friday, 8 pm | Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion FREE admission

June 29 MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ INSTITUTE Friday, 7 pm | Moores Opera House FREE admission

TEXAS MUSIC FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Carlos Spierer | conductor Winner, 2018 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition | soloist

Classical to contemporary jazz in a big band setting.

Noe Marmolejo directs.

DANCING THE NIGHT AWAY Turina: Danzas Fantásticas Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Márquez: Danzon No. 2; more

June 29 YOUNG ARTIST CHAMBER MUSIC Friday, 7 pm | Dudley Recital Hall FREE admission Ensembles featuring classical music’s rising stars perform chamber music.

June 23 FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Saturday, 7:30 pm | Moores Opera House 6:30 pm Pre-concert performance by members of Virtuosi of Houston (Lobby); Settling the Score (Room 108) with Dr. Andrew Davis

June 30 FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Saturday, 7:30 pm | Moores Opera House 6:30 pm Pre-concert performance by members of Virtuosi of Houston (Lobby); Settling the Score (Room 108) with Dr. Andrew Davis

TEXAS MUSIC FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Carlos Spierer | conductor Winner, 2018 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition | soloist

TEXAS MUSIC FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Hans Graf | conductor Nikolay Didenko | bass soloist

DANCING THE NIGHT AWAY Turina: Danzas Fantásticas Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Márquez: Danzon No. 2; more June 24 FREDELL LACK LEGACY SERIES Sunday, 2:30 pm | Dudley Recital Hall | $12/$7 Eden MacAdam-Somer | violin Timothy Hester | piano Texas Music Festival alum and Fredell Lack student returns in a genre bending program of soaring violin and fiddling, vocals, as well as music by Debussy, Ravel, and Kreisler.

SHOSTAKOVICH: FIRST AND LAST All Shostakovich: Scherzo, Op. 1, Symphony No. 1, Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti July 1 MSM CONCERT CHORALE Sunday, 3 pm | Moores Opera House BARTÓK COMPETITION SEND OFF CONCERT MSM Concert Chorale Betsy Cook Weber | director Hear the Moores School Chorale’s final appearance before they compete in the Béla Bartók International Choral Competition, one of the world’s most prestigious, in Debrecen, Hungary.

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