- Friday | February 20 | 7:30 PM
- Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts
- 800 Bagby. Houston TX 77002
- 713-524-5050 | boxoffice@dacamera.com
Frida Kahlo Self-Portrait as a Tehuana (Diego on My Mind) © 2025 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights
Society (ARS), New York
World Premiere | DACAMERA Production
Program
COLIN JACOBSEN: Beloved, Do Not Let Me Be Discouraged
GABRIELA LENA FRANK: Frida’s Dreams (world premiere/DACAMERA co-commission)
OSVALDO GOLIJOV: Ever Yours for string nonet
SELECTED FOLK SONGS arranged for string octet
Musicians and Creative Team
Brooklyn Rider (JOHNNY GANDELSMAN, violin; COLIN JACOBSEN, violin; NICHOLAS CORDS, viola; MICHAEL NICOLAS, cello)
Alumni of the DACAMERA Young Artist Program: JACOB SCHAFER, violin; MATT LAMMERS, violin; LAUREN ROSS, viola; DAVID DIETZ, cello; AUSTIN LEWELLEN, double bass
GABRIELA LENA FRANK, guest composer
CAMILLA TASSI, projection design
Musical America’s Composer of the Year for 2026 Gabriela Lena Frank explores the tumultuous relationship between Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in a new string quartet based on her acclaimed 2021 opera El último sueño de Frida y Diego (The Last Dream of Frida and Diego), a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). This new multi-media DACAMERA production features projections based on the paintings of Frida Kahlo.
With their gripping performance style and unquenchable appetite for musical adventure, Brooklyn Rider has carved a singular space in the world of string quartets over their 20-plus year history. Now, they make their long-awaited DACAMERA debut. Alumni of the DACAMERA Young Artist Program join the quartet for Osvaldo Golijov’s Ever Yours and arrangements of traditional folk music.
In conjunction with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s exhibition Frida: The Making of an Icon, on view January 19 to May 17.
Concert Sponsors
Chinhui and Eddie Allen
Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation
This program is supported by the DACAMERA Artistic Development Fund
“recreating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble.”
— NPR Music on Brooklyn Rider
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