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Sarah Rothenberg introduces Golden Eighties at MFAH Films

Sarah Rothenberg introduces Golden Eighties at MFAH Films

  • Friday | January 9 | 7:00 PM
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Brown Auditorium Theater, 4K digital restoration
  • 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston TX 77005

In conjunction with the performances of D’Est en musique (From the East), Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg introduces Chantal Akerman’s film Golden Eighties, which MOMA calls “perhaps the last great original movie musical, wedding gravity to lightness, chaos to order.”

Brandon Woody’s Upendo

Brandon Woody’s Upendo

  • Sunday | January 11 | 5:00 PM Set
  • Choose-What-You-Pay Tickets
  • Eldorado Ballroom

Hailed by The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times as a rising force in contemporary jazz, trumpeter Brandon Woody released his Blue Note Records debut album, For The Love Of It All, in May 2025.

Brandon Woody’s Upendo

Brandon Woody’s Upendo

  • Sunday | January 11 | 7:00 PM Set
  • Choose-What-You-Pay Tickets on sale Monday, December 8
  • Eldorado Ballroom

Hailed by The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times as a rising force in contemporary jazz, trumpeter Brandon Woody released his Blue Note Records debut album, For The Love Of It All, in May 2025.

D’Est en musique (From the East)

D’Est en musique (From the East)

  • Friday | January 16 | 7:00 PM
  • Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

French-American cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton and pianist Sarah Rothenberg bring Wieder-Atherton and filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s D’Est en musique to the US. Music of Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Chopin, Martinů, Janáček, Bartók and more.

D’Est en musique (From the East)

D’Est en musique (From the East)

  • Saturday | January 17 | 7:00 PM
  • Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

French-American cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton and pianist Sarah Rothenberg bring Wieder-Atherton and filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s D’est en musique to the US. Music of Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Chopin, Martinů, Janáček, Bartók and more.

DACAMERA Young Artists: Art and Life in Imperial Rome

DACAMERA Young Artists: Art and Life in Imperial Rome

  • Thursday | January 22 | 6:30 pm
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  • 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston TX 77005

DACAMERA Young Arists present a concert  inspired by the exhibition Art and Life in Imperial Rome: Trajan and His Times.

Brooklyn Rider: Frida’s Dreams

Brooklyn Rider: Frida’s Dreams

  • Friday | February 20 | 7:30 PM
  • Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

Brooklyn Rider’s DACAMERA debut, with the world premiere of a new string quartet by acclaimed composer Gabriela Lena Frank, inspired by paintings of Frida Kahlo. Plus music of Colin Jacobsen and Osvaldo Golijov and arrangements of folk songs.

Branford Marsalis Quartet Belonging Tour

Branford Marsalis Quartet Belonging Tour

  • Sunday | February 22 | 5:00 PM
  • Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center

The living jazz legend, three-time Grammy winner and NEA Jazz Master re-imagines Keith Jarrett’s classic recording Belonging. Just announced: The Branford Marsalis Quartet’s recording of Belonging is nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Album.

Stop, Look and Listen! | Inspired by Pop Art

Stop, Look and Listen! | Inspired by Pop Art

  • Stop, Look and Listen!
  • Saturday, February 28, 3:00 PM
  • The Menil Collection

DACAMERA Young Artists present a concert inspired by the installation of works of Pop Art by Robert Indiana, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol in the museum’s foyer.

A Little Day Music: Hear Herstory

A Little Day Music: Hear Herstory

  • Wednesday | March 4 | 12:00 pm
  • Grand Foyer, Wortham Theater Center

DACAMERA Young Artists in a concert celebrating women composers.

Pat Metheny Side-Eye III+

Pat Metheny Side-Eye III+

  • ALMOST SOLD OUT | INDIVIDUAL SEATS ONLY – NO PAIRS OF TICKETS AVAILABLE
  • Saturday | March 7 | 8:00 PM
  • Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center

Legendary guitarist Pat Metheny has a catalogue of 50-plus recordings that have scored 39 Grammy nominations and 20 wins in 12 different categories.

Sarah Hanahan

Sarah Hanahan

  • Sunday | March 22 | 5:00 PM and 7:00 PM Sets
  • Choose-What-You-Pay Tickets
  • Eldorado Ballroom

Sarah Hanahan was named Rising Star Alto Saxophonist in Downbeat’s 2025 Critics Poll. The magazine awarded her debut album, Among Giants, 5 stars and named it one of their Best Albums of the Year for 2024.

Parker Quartet; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello

Parker Quartet; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello

  • Saturday | March 28 | 7:00 PM
  • Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

Schubert Perspectives #2: The Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet’s return to the DACAMERA stage features Beethoven’s “Serioso” quartet, a propulsive Philip Glass quartet, and Schubert’s Cello Quintet, widely considered the most beautiful work in all of chamber music.

Isidore String Quartet

Isidore String Quartet

  • Monday | April 6 | 7:30 PM
  • The Menil Collection

Schubert Perspectives #3: The Isidore Quartet – skyrocketing to the heights of the music world since their debut at DACAMERA in 2023 – return with a strikingly diverse program, juxtaposing Schubert with twentieth and twenty-first century works by Ligeti and Tyshawn Sorey.

Coltrane 100: Both Directions at Once

Coltrane 100: Both Directions at Once

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

An all-star lineup — saxophonists Joe Lovano and Melissa Aldana; pianist Ndudzo Makhathini, bassist Linda May Han Oh, and drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts — pays tribute to the jazz giant.

Yulianna Avdeeva, piano

Yulianna Avdeeva, piano

  • Tuesday | April 14 | 7:30 PM
  • Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center

Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva was the First Prize winner of the 2010 International Chopin Piano Competition. Her first Houston appearance features a fascinating program of Chopin’s revolutionary and poetic 24 Preludes juxtaposed with Shostakovich’s monumental Preludes and Fugues.

Morton Feldman at 100: “Schubert Leaving Me”

Morton Feldman at 100: “Schubert Leaving Me”

  • Monday | April 20 | 7:30 PM
  • The Menil Collection

DACAMERA celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of influential American composer Morton Feldman, with a rare performance of his poignant final work, Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello.

Hiromi’s Sonicwonder

Hiromi’s Sonicwonder

  • Saturday | May 9 | 8:00 PM
  • Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center

The jazz piano phenomenon Hiromi’s expressive, dynamic and versatile band Hiromi’s Sonicwonder features Hadrien Feraud on bass, Gene Coye on drums and the trumpeter Adam O’Farrill. It incorporates the spirit of classic jazz-rock fusion melded with classically rooted virtuosity, entrancing funk and pop flourishes.

LUCÍA

LUCÍA

  • Sunday | May 17 | 5:00 PM and 7:00 PM Sets
  • Choose-What-You-Pay Tickets
  • Eldorado Ballroom

LUCÍA is a 23-year-old vocalist from Veracruz, Mexico whose singular artistic vision bridges the gaps between jazz, Latin and pop music. She is the first artist from Mexico to enter and win the prestigious Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition.

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