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.
The Texas Music Festival’s Orchestral Institute participants, chosen by competitive live and recorded auditions submitted by more than 450 applicants, are approximately 95 advanced students and young professional musicians who come from such noted music schools as Northwestern University, the Peabody 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). This year’s Festival also attracts participants from 14 foreign countries: Poland, New Zealand, Italy, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong.
The TMF Orchestral Fellows study and rehearse under the direction of an international faculty of conductors and artists/teachers who also perform on the PERSPECTIVES Series concerts, presented weekly at Texas A&M University and in the Moores Opera House at the University of Houston.
For more information, visit: www.tmf.uh.edu
