When Kelli Estes planned her first season for Houston’s Lone Star Lyric Theater, the company she founded back in 2006, she was actually in living New York City and not Houston. ...
For nearly three decades, the Emmanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival (TMF) has courted the best and brightest pre-professional classical musicians from around the country and abroad. ...
It has been six years since bassoonist Tracy Jacobson ran through the halls of Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, asking her friends if they would join her in playing in a woodwind quintet. ...
Lately, much energy is devoted to the notion of innovation in the concert hall. Unfortunately, many of these efforts are underwhelming, but concerts by the Apollo Chamber Players are always a delight. ...
Liminal Space, the contemporary music ensemble spearheaded by guitarist/composer George Heathco and percussionist Luke Hubley, has quietly been filling a noticeable void in Houston’s concert music scene for slightly more than a year now....
As the Houston Symphony proudly marches into its Centennial season, feting past and future music directors alongside a parade of celebrity soloists, there's a sense that something special is happening....
