Join Monarch Chamber Players for a special concert at Lambert Hall in honor of Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) Awareness Day. The program offers a small glimpse into the complex world of MBC patients through music that highlights life's complexity, solace in nature, and the necessity of community. Cynthia, a commission by Nicky Sohn inspired by […]
Eight Grammy Awards. Two Oscar nominations. Two Emmy nominations. NEA Jazz Master. Transformational jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard comes to UH Cullen Performance Hall for ONE NIGHT ONLY Saturday, November 9, 2024, in celebration of the University of Houston-Downtown’s 50th Anniversary. Blanchard has created powerful soundtracks for more than 60 films including “The Woman […]
In Redefine or Redesign, presented in partnership and gratitude with our season host the Houston Saengerbund, listeners will join the Axiom Quartet on a scavenger hunt through the 300-year saga of the German string quartet. Interspersed between candid conversations and historical connective tissue, Axiom will perform movements from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Schoenberg […]
Since the invention of the silver screen, adventurous, popular composers have applied their creativity and storytelling impulse to soundtracks. Great films are often born with great music: a one-of-a-kind fingerprint, a calling card that manages to recall the sensation and drama of an entire franchise in a matter of a few notes. Join the Axiom […]
Marlon Simon and the nagual spirits live in concert premiering in Houston all new work from their acclaimed album "On different paths".
Join the Axiom Quartet and University of Houston professor Howard Pollack (author of award-winning biographies of George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Samuel Barber) for A Voice in the Wilderness, a lecture-performance exploring the life and work of the important Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch (1880-1959). Best remembered today for his masterpiece for cello and orchestra, Schelomo, […]
