Texas Classical Review

December – Dec 01, 2024

The Texas Classical Review calendar of events will return in January.

November 30 – Oct 23, 2024

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Markus Poschner, conductor
Charles Yang, violinist
Bowers: For a Younger Self
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 “New World”
7:30 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center
dallassymphony.org

Houston Symphony
Juraj Valčuha, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, pianist
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished”
Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor”
7:30 p.m. Jones Hall

October 23 – Sep 23, 2024

Dallas Opera
Verdi: La Traviata
Yaritza Véliz, Javier Camarena, Alfredo Daza; Iván López Reynoso, conductor
7:30 p.m. Winspear Opera House
dallasopera.org

October 24

Mercury
Jonathan Godfrey, violinist
Elinor Frey, cellist
Mario Aschauer, fortepiano
Koželuch: Trio in G minor
Haydn: Trio in G major “Gypsy”
Mozart: Trio in B-flat major, K. 502
7:30 p.m. Saengerhalle, Houston

October 25

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Jane Glover, conductor
Angela Hewitt, pianist
Britten: Suite on English Folk Tunes
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Mozart: Symphony No. 31 “Paris”
7:30 p.m. Bass Performance Hall

Houston Grand Opera
Rossini: Cenerentola
Isabel Leonard, Jack Swanson, Alessandro Corbelli; Lorenzo Passerini, conductor
7:30 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

October 26

Mercury
Jonathan Godfrey, violinist
Elinor Frey, cellist
Mario Aschauer, fortepiano
Koželuch: Trio in G minor
Haydn: Trio in G major “Gypsy”
Mozart: Trio in B-flat major, K. 502
2:30 p.m. Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church; 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts

Orchestra of New Spain
Works for wind quintet by Villa-Lobos, Ibert and others
3 p.m. Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Dallas

Dallas Opera
Verdi: La Traviata
Yaritza Véliz, Javier Camarena, Alfredo Daza; Iván López Reynoso, conductor
7:30 p.m. Winspear Opera House
dallasopera.org

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Jane Glover, conductor
Angela Hewitt, pianist
Britten: Suite on English Folk Tunes
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Mozart: Symphony No. 31 “Paris”
7:30 p.m. Bass Performance Hall

Houston Grand Opera
Verdi: Il Trovatore
Ailyn Pérez, Michael Spyres, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Lucas Meacham, Morris Robinson; Patrick Summers, conductor
7:30 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

October 27

Dallas Opera
Verdi: La Traviata
Sara Gartland, Bekhzod Davronov, Alfredo Daza; Iván López Reynoso, conductor
2 p.m. Winspear Opera House
dallasopera.org

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Jane Glover, conductor
Angela Hewitt, pianist
Britten: Suite on English Folk Tunes
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin
Mozart: Symphony No. 31 “Paris”
2 p.m. Bass Performance Hall

Houston Grand Opera
Rossini: Cenerentola
Isabel Leonard, Jack Swanson, Alessandro Corbelli; Lorenzo Passerini, conductor
2 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

Mercury
Jonathan Godfrey, violinist
Elinor Frey, cellist
Mario Aschauer, fortepiano
Koželuch: Trio in G minor
Haydn: Trio in G major “Gypsy”
Mozart: Trio in B-flat major, K. 502
7 p.m. Dosey Doe, The Woodlands

October 28

DACAMERA
Chiaroscuro Quartet
Beethoven: String Quartet in F major, Op. 59, no. 1
Schubert: String Quartet in G major, D. 887
7:30 p.m. Menil Collection, Houston

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Pinchas Zukerman, violinist and violist
Members of the orchestra and Southern Methodist University faculty
Beethoven: String Trio in C minor
Brahms: String Sextet in B-flat major
7:30 p.m. Caruth Auditorium, SMU
dallassymphony.org

October 29

Chamber Music Houston
Jerusalem Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 50, No. 1
Shostakovich: Quartet No. 12
Mozart: Quartet in C major, K. 465 “Dissonance”
7:30 p.m. Brockman Music and Performing Arts Center, Rice University

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Pinchas Zukerman, violinist and violist
Members of the orchestra and Southern Methodist University faculty
Beethoven: String Trio in C minor
Brahms: String Sextet in B-flat major
7:30 p.m. Temple Emanu-El
dallassymphony.org

Houston Grand Opera
Verdi: Il Trovatore
Ailyn Pérez, Michael Spyres, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Lucas Meacham, Morris Robinson; Patrick Summers, conductor
7:30 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

September 27 – Aug 08, 2024

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Kevin John Edusei, conductor 
Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
 Zemlinsky: Sinfonietta
 Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
7:30 p.m. Bass Performance Hall

Houston Symphony
Gonzalo Farias, conductor
Pablo Sáinz Villegas, guitarist
Soto: Suite No. 1 from La Rosa y el Niño 
Soro: Danza Fantástica
Granda/Alvarez: La flor de la canela
 Villoldo-Matos/Drago: El choclo & la cumparsita 
Gutierrez/Meza: Alma Llanera
 Hernandez/Ceron: Cachita 
Marquez: Guitar Concerto (world premiere) 
Marquez: Danzón No. 2
7:30 p.m. Jones Hall

September 28

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Kevin John Edusei, conductor 
Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
 Zemlinsky: Sinfonietta
 Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
7:30 p.m. Bass Performance Hall

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, conductor
Lang Lang, pianist
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Rossini: Overture to William Tell
8:45 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center
dallassymphony.org

September 29

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Kevin John Edusei, conductor 
Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
 Zemlinsky: Sinfonietta
 Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie
2 p.m. Bass Performance Hall

September – Jun 01, 2024

The TXCR calendar of events will return in September.

May 31 – Apr 23, 2024

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Robert Spano, conductor
Peter Steiner, trombonist
Constanze Hochwartner, pianist
Day: Departures: Double Concerto for Trombone, Piano and Orchestra
Higdon: river sings a song to trees
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
7:30 p.m. Bass Performance Hall

April 23 – Mar 26, 2024

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Maurice Cohn, conductor
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano
Samantha Bennett, violinist
Conor Hanick, pianist
George Nickson, percussionist
Chin: Acrostic Wordplay
Saariaho: Graal Theatre
Chin: Double Concerto for Piano and Percussion
7:30 p.m. Caruth Auditorium, Southern Methodist University
dallassymphony.org

Harmonia Stellarum
Monteverdi: Psalm settings
7:30 p.m. Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston

April 24

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Conor Hanick, pianist
Otte: The Book of Sounds
7:30 p.m. Caruth Auditorium, Southern Methodist University
dallassymphony.org

April 25

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Samantha Bennett, violinist
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano
Kurtág: Kafka Fragments
7:30 p.m. Caruth Auditorium, Southern Methodist University
dallassymphony.org

April 26

Houston Grand Opera
Rodgers and Hammerstein: The Sound of Music
Isabel Leonard, Alexander Birch Elliott, Katie Van Kooten; Richard Bado, conductor
7:30 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

Houston Symphony
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor
Joélle Harvey, soprano; Reginald Mobley, countertenor; Will Liverman, baritone
Houston Symphony Chorus
López Bellido: Symphony No. 4 “Eclipse” (world premiere)
Orff: Carmina Burana
8 p.m. Jones Hall

April 27

Houston Symphony
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor
Joélle Harvey, soprano; Reginald Mobley, countertenor; Will Liverman, baritone
Houston Symphony Chorus
López Bellido: Symphony No. 4 “Eclipse”
Orff: Carmina Burana
2:30 (Carmina Burana only) and 8 p.m. Jones Hall

ROCO
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Danielpour: Symphony in Three Movements After the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Alle Soglia del Paradiso
Ellisor: A Woman Without Apology
Piazzolla: Tangazo
Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos Symphony-Suite (arr. Ochoa)
5 p.m. Brockman Hall for Opera, Rice University, Houston

Houston Chamber Choir
Stravinsky: Mass
Works by Cage, Lauridsen and Whitacre
7:30 p.m. South Main Baptist Church

Houston Grand Opera
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Luca Pisaroni, Ryan McKinny, Andriana Chuchman, Sasha Cooke, Kang Wang, Erika Baikoff; Jane Glover, conductor
7:30 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

April 28

Houston Grand Opera
Rodgers and Hammerstein: The Sound of Music
Isabel Leonard, Alexander Birch Elliott, Katie Van Kooten; Richard Bado, conductor
2 p.m. Wortham Theater Center

Houston Symphony
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor
Joélle Harvey, soprano; Reginald Mobley, countertenor; Will Liverman, baritone
Houston Symphony Chorus
López Bellido: Symphony No. 4 “Eclipse”
Orff: Carmina Burana
2:30 p.m. Jones Hall

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Emily Levin, harpist
George Nickson, percussionist
Stockhausen: Freude
Boulez: Sur Incises
7:30 p.m. Caruth Auditorium, Southern Methodist University
dallassymphony.org

April 30

Chamber Music Houston
Wu Han, Philip Setzer and David Finckel Trio
Debussy: Piano Trio in G major
Smetana: Piano Trio in G minor
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor
7:30 p.m. Shepherd School of Music, Rice University

Houston Grand Opera
Rodgers and Hammerstein: The Sound of Music
Isabel Leonard, Alexander Birch Elliott, Katie Van Kooten; Richard Bado, conductor
7:30 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

March 26 – Feb 22, 2024

Dallas Winds
Navarro: Concerto for Oboe and Wind Band “Legacy”
Respighi: The Pines of Rome
7:30 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center
dallassymphony.org

March 28

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, pianist
Jeremy Denk, pianist
Anna Clyne: ATLAS (world premiere)
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
7:30 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center
dallassymphony.org

March 29

Bach Society Houston
Erickson: St. John Passion
3 p.m. Christ the King Lutheran Church

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, pianist
Jeremy Denk, pianist
Anna Clyne: ATLAS
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
7:30 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center
dallassymphony.org

Houston Symphony
Xian Zhang, conductor
Brinton Averil Smith, cellist
Chang: Northern Star
Dvořák: Cello Concerto
Prokofiev: Selections from Romeo and Juliet
8 p.m. Jones Hall

March 30

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, pianist
Jeremy Denk, pianist
Anna Clyne: ATLAS
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
7:30 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center
dallassymphony.org

Houston Symphony
Xian Zhang, conductor
Brinton Averil Smith, cellist
Chang: Northern Star
Dvořák: Cello Concerto
Prokofiev: Selections from Romeo and Juliet
8 p.m. Jones Hall

February 23 – Jan 24, 2024

Bach Society Houston
Louis-Marie Fardet, cellist
Works by Bach
7 p.m. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, conductor
Karen Gomyo, violinist
Tine Thing Helseth, trumpeter
Bradley Hunter Welch, organist
Jani: Flare
Xi Wang: Year 2020: Concerto for Violin, Trumpet and Orchestra
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ”
7:30 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center
dallassymphony.org

Orchestra of New Spain
Atlas Tango Project
Dancers from Parasol Arts
Works by Piazzolla and Rodriguez
8 p.m. Moody Performance Hall, Dallas

February 24

Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth
Benjamin Beilman, violinist
Alumni and students of Curtis Institute of Music
Strauss: Sextet from Capriccio
Berg: Piano Sonata in B minor
Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G major
2 p.m. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
cmsfw.org

Fort Worth Opera
Kander: dwb (driving while black)
2 p.m. Kimbell Art Museum

ROCO
Delyana Lazarova, conductor
Clay Melton, guitarist
Houston Youth Symphony
Andrée: Symphony No. 2
Danielpour: “Voci dal Purgatorio” from Symphony in Three Movements After the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
Meyer: Go Big or Go Home
Schubert: Overture in the Italian Style
Tabakova: Fantasy Homage to Schubert
5 p.m. Church of St. John the Divine, Houston

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, conductor
Karen Gomyo, violinist
Tine Thing Helseth, trumpeter
Bradley Hunter Welch, organist
Jani: Flare
Xi Wang: Year 2020: Concerto for Violin, Trumpet and Orchestra
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ”
7:30 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center
dallassymphony.org

DACAMERA
Isata Kanneh-Mason, pianist
Haydn: Sonata No. 60 in C major
Fanny Mendelssohn: “Easter” Sonata
Schumann: Kinderszenen
Chopin: Sonata No. 3 in B minor
8 p.m. Wortham Theater Center

Houston Symphony
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
8 p.m. Jones Hall

February 25

Houston Symphony
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
2:30 p.m. Jones Hall

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, conductor
Karen Gomyo, violinist
Tine Thing Helseth, trumpeter
Bradley Hunter Welch, organist
Jani: Flare
Xi Wang: Year 2020: Concerto for Violin, Trumpet and Orchestra
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 “Organ”
3 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center
dallassymphony.org

February 29

Chamber Music Houston
Castalian String Quartet
Haydn: Quartet in A major, Op. 20, no. 6
Britten: Quartet No. 3
Beethoven: Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 130
7:30 p.m. Shepherd School of Music, Rice University

January 26 – Dec 26, 2023

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Kevin John Edusei, conductor
Mahler: Symphony No. 7
7:30 Bass Performance Hall

Houston Grand Opera
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Ailyn Pérez, Yongzhao Yu, Michael Sumuel, Sun-Ly Pierce; Patrick Summers, conductor
7:30 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

January 27

ROCO
Loeffler: Rhapsodies
Sohn: Colors of Life’s Garden (world premiere)
5 p.m. Rienzi, Houston

Houston Grand Opera
Wagner: Parsifal
Russell Thomas, Elena Pankratova, Kwangchoul Youn, Ryan McKinny; Eun Sun Kim, conductor
6 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Kevin John Edusei, conductor
Mahler: Symphony No. 7
7:30 Bass Performance Hall

January 28

Houston Grand Opera
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Ailyn Pérez, Yongzhao Yu, Michael Sumuel, Sun-Ly Pierce; Patrick Summers, conductor
2 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Kevin John Edusei, conductor
Mahler: Symphony No. 7
2:30 Bass Performance Hall

Houston Symphony
Víkingur Ólafsson, pianist
Bach: “Goldberg” Variations
2:30 p.m. Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

Context
Schubert: Notturno
Schubert: Variations in A-flat major for Piano Duet
Schubert: Trio in E-flat major
4 p.m. Duncan Recital Hall, Rice University, Houston

Dallas Opera
Hart Institute for Women Conductors Showcase Concert
Maria Benyumova, Micah Gleason, Shira Samuels-Shragg and Jingqi Zhu, conductors
Singers from Dallas Opera’s February production of Elektra
Excerpts from Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, Puccini’s Sister Angelica, Menotti’s The Consul and Barber’s Vanessa
7:30 p.m. Winspear Opera House
dallasopera.org

January 31