2025 - 2026 Season
“Virtuosity, eloquence, passion and invention…these are the qualities that define DACAMERA’s 2025-26 season. Whether string quartet or jazz ensemble, world premiere or a beloved masterwork, the DACAMERA stage will offer performances that transport us to Other Worlds.
Music has the uncanny power to lift us out of daily life: we can be transported out of ourselves – to distant lands, unknown cultures, long past eras; and, conversely, into ourselves – away from the external world, into an immersive state of self-reflection. The rhythms and harmonies of music can evoke the allure of places never visited, move us from lethargy to ecstatic joy; and connect us to universals of human experience that have not changed through the centuries.
I invite you to join me on a season of transporting musical adventure.”
– Sarah Rothenberg, Artistic Director
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DACAMERA’s Other Worlds season opens with an all-star cast of artists in a varied program of solo and chamber works that sets the stage for what is to come: virtuosic Romanticism, Bluegrass and folk influences and the sublime beauty of Schubert.
For his recent Blue Note release, three of us are from Houston and Reuben is not, the irrepressible saxophonist Walter Smith III pays homage to his hometown, with his fellow Houston natives, pianist Jason Moran and drummer Kendrick Scott, plus bassist Reuben Rogers.
DACAMERA’s Schubert Perspectives series kicks off with two titans of the classical world. Hear Trifonov play Schubert solo, and then the two artists come together for the song cycle Schwanengesang (Swan Songs).
Hailed as the new face of classical guitar worldwide, French musician Raphaël Feuillâtre fascinates audiences and critics alike with the depth of his interpretations, his dazzling virtuosity and the richness of his repertoire.
Hailed as the new face of classical guitar worldwide, French musician Raphaël Feuillâtre fascinates audiences and critics alike with the depth of his interpretations, his dazzling virtuosity and the richness of his repertoire.
A two-time Grammy winner with five nominations, trumpeter Nicholas Payton has released over 20 recordings as a leader, pushing musical boundaries and showcasing a variety of contemporary and traditional styles.
The DACAMERA audience favorites return with a characteristically intriguing and varied program: music of Haydn and Bartók and recent work by acclaimed composer/pianist Timo Andres.
Vocalist Ekep Nkwelle is a force in today’s jazz scene, charting a remarkable journey from the vibrant culture of Washington, DC to the iconic stages of New York and beyond.
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.
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.
Two luminous musicians shine their collective light on French composer Olivier Messiaen’s grandest song cycle.
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.
The living jazz legend, three-time Grammy winner and NEA Jazz Master re-imagines Keith Jarrett’s classic recording Belonging.
Legendary guitarist Pat Metheny has a catalogue of 50-plus recordings that have scored 39 Grammy nominations and 20 wins in 12 different categories.
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.
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.
An all-star lineup — saxophonists Joe Lovano and Melissa Aldana; pianist Ndudzo Makhathini, bassist Matthew Garrison, and drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts — pays tribute to the jazz giant.
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.
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.
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.
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