The 2023/2024 Season

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Full Season Series: All 16 concerts
Chamber Music Series:  Isidore Quartet; Horszowski Trio; Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut in My Bones; JIJI & Danbi Um; Elias Quartet; Danish Quartet; Isata Kanneh-Mason; Daniil Trifonov; Ensemble Modern; Music for New Bodies; Adam Tendler
Jazz Series: Bill Frisell & Ambrose Akinmusire; Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut in My Bones; Joshua Redman; Melissa Aldana; Etienne Charles Earth Tones; Kurt Elling with Danilo Perez
DACAMERA at the Menil: Horszowski Trio; JIJI, guitar & Danbi Um, violin; Adam Tendler’s Inheritances
Build Your Own Series: Choose 6 to 9 concerts to fit your taste and schedule.

Isidore Quartet; Sarah Rothenberg | Awakenings

Isidore Quartet; Sarah Rothenberg | Awakenings

  • Friday | September 29 | 8:00 PM
  • Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center

The Isidore Quartet, who burst onto the chamber music scene recently with international awards and an Avery Fisher Career Grant, make their Houston debut in a program featuring string quartets by Mozart and Mendelssohn – each composed before the composer’s 30th birthday; and a dazzling new quintet by Nicky Sohn with pianist Sarah Rothenberg.


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Horszowski Trio

Horszowski Trio

  • Tuesday | October 17 | 7:30 PM
  • The Menil Collection

A vital force in the international chamber music scene, the Horszowski Trio plays music of Schumann and British-American composer Rebecca Clarke


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Terence Blanchard “Fire Shut Up in My Bones”

Terence Blanchard “Fire Shut Up in My Bones”

  • Friday | November 10 | 8:00 PM
  • Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center

Terence Blanchard brings us a new suite of music from his historic opera, performed by the celebrated trumpeter and his E-Collective, the Grammy Award-winning Turtle Island Quartet and vocalists Nicholas Newton and Adrienne Danrich.


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JIJI, guitar; Danbi Um, violin

JIJI, guitar; Danbi Um, violin

  • Monday | November 13 | 7:30 PM
  • Tuesday | November 14 | 7:30 PM
  • The Menil Collection

This powerful duo of young, genre-defying musicians presents a remarkably eclectic concert: Italian Baroque juxtaposed with 19th-century masterpieces of Paganini; jazz paired with the seductive gestures of traditional Spanish song; and the paradigm-bending program closes with Astor Piazzolla’s spirited celebration of tango.


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Elias String Quartet; Sarah Rothenberg, piano

Elias String Quartet; Sarah Rothenberg, piano

  • Friday | February 9 | 7:30 PM
  • Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

The intense, vibrant Elias Quartet returns to the DACAMERA stage for one night only following their historic Beethoven string quartet cycle in 2022.  Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg joins the quartet for Brahms’ majestic Piano Quintet. We celebrate composer Fanny Mendelssohn with her rhapsodic Quartet in E-flat Major, one of the first surviving string quartets by a woman.


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Danish String Quartet

Danish String Quartet

  • Friday | February 16 | 8:00 PM
  • Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center

A DACAMERA audience favorite, the Grammy-nominated Danish Quartet is among the world’s finest string quartets, renowned for impeccable musicianship, sophisticated artistry and, above all, and an unmatched ability to play as one.


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Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

  • Saturday | February 24 | 8:00 PM
  • Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center

The eldest of the famed British musical family of seven musical prodigies, pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason possesses dazzling technical skills and spellbinding musicality that have propelled her into the international spotlight. She makes her Houston debut  in a recital featuring an equally exciting Houston premiere: Fanny Mendelssohn’s “Easter” Sonata.


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Melissa Aldana Quartet

Melissa Aldana Quartet

  • Saturday | March 2 | 8:00 PM
  • Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center

Twice Grammy-nominated for Best Improvised Jazz solo, saxophonist and composer Melissa Aldana has garnered international recognition for her visionary work as a band leader, as well as her bold and often meditative compositions.


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Daniil Trifonov, piano

Daniil Trifonov, piano

  • Friday | March 22 | 8:00 PM
  • Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center

Grammy Award-winning pianist Daniil Trifonov, Musical America’s 2019 Artist of the Year, is “Without question, the most astounding pianist of our age,” says The Times of London.


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Etienne Charles “Earth Tones”

Etienne Charles “Earth Tones”

  • Friday | April 19 | 8:00 PM
  • Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center

For Unsilent Spring, Etienne Charles unveils his newest multimedia creation, Earth Tones, employing sounds, stories, images and film and incorporating musical idioms from at-risk coastal communities.


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Adam Tendler, piano | “Inheritances”

Adam Tendler, piano | “Inheritances”

  • Tuesday | May 7 | 7:30 PM
  • The Menil Collection

After his father’s unexpected death, pianist Adam Tendler used his inheritance to begin a commissioning project inviting a broad spectrum of sound artists and composers to create new works exploring the idea of ‘inheritance’ itself.


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We offer a broad range of repertoire and musical styles in innovative concerts of outstanding musical excellence.

DACAMERA is widely acclaimed for its innovative programming, notably Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg’s unique concerts connecting music with literature and the visual arts.

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