The 2023/2024 Season

• Friday | October 6 | 8:00 PM
• Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center

A rare DACAMERA double bill with two of the most exciting headlining jazz artists performing today, guitarist Bill Frisell and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire.

• 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

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

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

• 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.

• Friday | January 26 | 8:00 PM
• Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center

Acclaimed and charismatic saxophonist Joshua Redman returns with his latest project, Where Are We, featuring vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

In a rare U.S. performance, their first ever in Texas, Germany’s famed Ensemble Modern performs the American premiere of a new arrangement of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s popular musical theater work, The Seven Deadly Sins.

• 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.

• Saturday | April 20 | 8:00 PM
• Brockman Hall, Rice University

For Unsilent Spring, a major new work and exciting first collaboration between the brilliant young composer Matthew Aucoin and legendary director Peter Sellars, co-commissioned by DACAMERA and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University

• 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.

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

Renowned for his singular combination of robust swing and poetic insight, two-time Grammy winner Kurt Elling has secured his place among the world’s foremost jazz vocalists.