MUSIC

The Immanuel and Helen Olshan TEXAS MUSIC FESTIVAL (TMF) announces its 22nd season, Made in America, with performances by the Festival Orchestra (Orchestra Series), faculty artists (PERSPECTIVES Series: Chamber Music and Jazz), institute participants (jazz, piano, voice), and the Classical Minds Guitar Festival and Competition.

Covering a spectrum ranging from jazz to music by 20th and 21st century American classical composers, each Orchestra and Perspectives Series examines music “Made In America” and its connections to the wider world. The Festival theme also presents important Romantic works inspired by visions of the New World as seen through the eyes of Antonin Dvorak. Based at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, the Festival, June 6 through July 2, presents nearly 50 public performances, master classes, and seminars in venues throughout the Houston area and at Texas A&M University in College Station.

Texas Music Festival Orchestra Series:
Renowned conductors lead the Orchestra Fellows in exciting performances of the cornerstones of the orchestral repertoire.

Saturday, June 11, 2011, Moores Opera House, 7:30 p.m.
Celebratory Opening
Festival Orchestra 1
Franz Anton Krager, conductor
Melanie Sonnenberg, mezzo-soprano
Festival Women's Chorus (Kelly Turner, director)
Houston Treble Choir (Marianna Parnas Simpson, director)

David Ashley White Spirit, moving over chaos
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 3 in D minor

Friday, June 17, 2011, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 8 p.m. (June 17 performance is FREE)
Saturday, June 18, 2011, Moores Opera House, 7:30 p.m. (tickets required for June 18 performance)
Festival Orchestra 2
Mei Ann Chen, conductor

Jennifer Higdon blue cathedral
Aaron Copland Symphony No. 3 in C major

Saturday, June 25, 2011, Moores Opera House, 7:30 p.m.
Festival Orchestra 3
Carl St. Clair, conductor
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition Winner, soloist

Christopher Theofanidis Rainbow Body
TBD Solo work performed by Competition winner
Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E major

Saturday, July 2, 2011, Moores Opera House, 7:30 p.m.
Grand Finale
Festival Orchestra 4
Carlos Spierer, conductor
Brinton Averil Smith, cello

Antonin Dvorak Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in B minor, Op. 104
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, Op. 35

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