MUSIC

The Immanuel and Helen Olshan TEXAS MUSIC FESTIVAL (TMF) announces its 21st season of performances by the Festival Orchestra (Orchestra Series), faculty artists (PERSPECTIVES Series: Chamber Music and Jazz), institute participants, and student performers. Based at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, the festival is a summer orchestral training program with component vocal, guitar, jazz, and piano programs.

The Texas Music Festival Orchestra participants (Orchestral Fellows), chosen by competitive live and recorded auditions, are approximately 95 advanced students and young professional musicians who come from such noted music schools as New England Conservatory, the Curtis Institute, Eastman School of Music, the Cleveland Institute, and Houston’s Shepherd School of Music (Rice University) and the Moores School of Music (University of Houston).

The Festival attracts participants from across the U.S., Europe, Mexico, Asia, Canada, Central and South America to become a part of the June 7 – July 3 residency program on the UH campus.

The Orchestral Fellows study and rehearse under the direction of an international faculty of conductors and artist/teachers who also perform on the PERSPECTIVES Series concerts, presented weekly at Texas A&M University (College Station, TX) and in the Moores Opera House at the University of Houston.

Highlights of the 2010 season:
• four PERSPECTIVES: Festival Artist Chamber Music and Jazz series concerts developed and “curated” by faculty artists and guests, featuring innovative programming and stellar performances of jazz and classical music

• Conductors: Mei-Ann Chen (Memphis Symphony Orchestra), Horst Foerster (Akadesmisches Orchester Leipzig), Franz Anton Krager (Moores School of Music, Klauspeter Seibel (former dir., Louisiana Philharmonic),

• Soloists with orchestra: brothers Leonel (piano) and Jesús (marimba) Morales in the world premiere of Peter Lieuwen’s Concerto for Piano, Marimba and Orchestra; Rita Porfiris (viola) in Bela Bartók’s Viola Concerto; Houston Symphony principal flute, Aralee Dorough, in Mozart’s Concerto in D Major for Flute

• a series of master classes in all instruments, featuring festival faculty and guests. For a complete listing, please visit our web site www.tmf.uh.edu

• Classical Minds Guitar Festival and Competition (June 15-20), including recitals by faculty, guest performers, competition winners

Conductor, composer, and faculty bios and photos are available at:
www.tmf.uh.edu
www.class.uh.edu/music/texasmusicfestival/about/index.html

TMF 2010 Concert Calendar -

June 7 (Mon.), Presidential Conference Center, Texas A&M University, 7:30 p.m.
June 8 (Tues.), Moores Opera House, University of Houston, 7:30 p.m.
TMF JAZZ PROJECT
“…Something Borrowed, Something Blue”
Noe Marmolejo, director
The all-star TMF Jazz Project continues its tradition of presenting the best in jazz, featuring the state’s best performers.

June 11 (Fri.), Dudley Recital Hall, University of Houston, 7:30 p.m., FREE
Le Chiavi di Bel Canto (The Keys to Bel Canto) Vocal Institute Final Concert
Joseph Evans, Melanie Sonnenberg, directors
Performances by advanced young singers from the Bel Canto Institute.

June 12 (Sat.), Moores Opera House, University of Houston, 7:30 p.m.
FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Celebratory Opening
Franz Anton Krager, conductor
Leonel Morales, piano soloist
Jesús Morales, marimba soloist
Peter Lieuwen: Concerto for Piano, Marimba and Orchestra (2008) premiere
Ravel: La valse
Respighi: Feste romane (Roman Festivals)

June 13 (Sun.), Dudley Recital Hall, University of Houston, 2:00 p.m., FREE
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition Final Round
Final competition round featuring solo performances by Festival Orchestra musicians.

June 14 (Mon.), Presidential Conference Center, Texas A&M University, 7:30 p.m.
PERSPECTIVES: “Voices from the Twilight of Old Vienna”
Andrzej Grabiec, Sean Wang, violin; Wayne Brooks, Matthew Dane, viola; Barrett Sills, cello; Christina Jennings, flute; Randall Griffin, clarinet; Tali Morgulis, Nancy Weems, piano
A musical exploration of Vienna in the twilight of Romanticism through the chamber music of its composers. Curated by violinist/musicologist Sean Wang. Includes the Clarinet Quartet by Walther Rabl, Schoenberg’s arrangement of Strauss’s Kaiserwaltz, and Brahms’s G Major String Quintet, Op. 111.

June 15 (Tues.) (multiple events)
Moores Opera House, University of Houston, 7:30 p.m.
PERSPECTIVES: “Voices from the Twilight of Old Vienna”
Andrzej Grabiec, Sean Wang, violin; Wayne Brooks, Matthew Dane, viola; Barrett Sills, cello; Christina Jennings, flute; Randall Griffin, clarinet; Tali Morgulis, Nancy Weems, piano
A musical exploration of Vienna in the twilight of Romanticism through the chamber music of its composers. Curated by violinist/musicologist Sean Wang. Includes the Clarinet Quartet by Walther Rabl, Schoenberg’s arrangement of Strauss’s Kaiserwaltz, and Brahms’s G Major String Quintet, Op. 111.

Dudley Recital Hall, University of Houston, 7:30 p.m.
“Classical Minds” Guitar Festival Recital
Anthony Glise and Duo Madriguera

June 17 (Thurs.), Dudley Recital Hall, University of Houston, 7:30 p.m.
“Classical Minds” Guitar Festival Recital
Kithara Duo and Valerie Hartzell

June 18 (Fri.) (multiple events)
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands, TX, 8:00 p.m., FREE
FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Horst Foerster, conductor
Rita Porfiris, viola soloist
Wagner: Overture to The Flying Dutchman
Bartók: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

Moores Opera House, University of Houston, 7:30 p.m.
Jazz Institute Concert
Noe Marmolejo, director
Talented high school and college jazz musicians perform tunes ranging from classical to contemporary in a big band setting.

Dudley Recital Hall, University of Houston, 7:30 p.m.
“Classical Minds” Guitar Festival Recital
Patrick Lui and Dieter Hennings

June 19 (Sat.) (multiple events)
Moores Opera House, University of Houston, 7:30 p.m.
FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Horst Foerster, conductor
Rita Porfiris, viola soloist
Wagner: Overture to The Flying Dutchman
Bartók: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

Dudley Recital Hall, University of Houston, 7:30 p.m.
“Classical Minds” Guitar Festival Recital
Mary Akerman and Randall Avers

June 20 (Sun.) (multiple events)
Dudley Recital Hall, University of Houston, 1 p.m.
“Classical Minds” Guitar Festival
Guitar Orchestra Recital

Dudley Recital Hall, University of Houston, 7:30 p.m.
“Classical Minds” Guitar Festival Competition
Competition Final (Divisions I, II, and III)

June 21 (Mon.), Presidential Conference Center, Texas A&M University, 7:30 p.m.
June 22 (Tues.), Moores Opera House, University of Houston, 7:30 p.m.
PERSPECTIVES: “Virtuoso Vehicles”
Lucie Robert, Zuo Jun, violin; Karen Ritscher, viola; Vagram Saradjian, cello; Jeffrey Cohen, piano
The TMF artist faculty dazzles with brilliant solo works.

June 24 (Thurs.), MSM Room 160, Univ. of Houston, 7:00 p.m., FREE
Young Artist Chamber Music
Small ensemble performances by Orchestral Fellows.

June 26 (Sat.) (multiple events)
Dudley Recital Hall, Univ. of Houston, 10 a.m., FREE
High School Piano Institute Recitals
Nancy Weems, director
Recitals by gifted high school pianists.

Moores Opera House, University of Houston, 7:30 p.m.
FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Klauspeter Seibel, conductor
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition Winner, soloist
Debussy: Prélude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Concerto TBA
Schoenberg: Pélleas and Mélisande, Op. 5

June 27 (Sun.), Moores Opera House, Univ. of Houston, 10 a.m. & 1 p.m., FREE
High School Piano Institute Recitals
Nancy Weems, director
Recitals by gifted high school pianists.

June 28 (Mon.), Presidential Conference Center, Texas A&M University, 7:30 p.m.
June 29 (Tues.), Moores Opera House, University of Houston, 7:30 p.m.
PERSPECTIVES: “TBA”

June 30 (Wed.), Dudley Recital Hall, Univ. of Houston, 7:00 p.m., FREE
Young Artist Chamber Music
Small ensemble performances by Festival Orchestra musicians.

July 1 (Thur.), Dudley Recital Hall, University of Houston, 7:00 p.m., FREE
Young Artist Chamber Music
Small ensemble performances by Orchestral Fellows.

July 3 (Sat.), Moores Opera House, University of Houston, 7:30 p.m.
FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Grand Finale
Mei Ann Chen, conductor
Aralee Dorough, flute
Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute, Concerto in D for Flute and Orchestra
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D, “Titan”

Locations:
Moores Opera House & Dudley Recital Hall (Fine Arts Bldg.)
University of Houston Main Campus (I-45 at Cullen Blvd., Entrance #16) Houston, TX

Presidential Conference Center
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
The Woodlands, TX