Pick 3 packages are on sale now. Pick 3 chamber or 3 jazz concerts to fit your taste, budget and schedule. Save off single ticket prices and get all the benefits of being a subscriber, including a free wild card ticket and free exchange privileges. Subscribe now. Like chamber music...

Applications for the Da Camera Young Artist program for the 19-20 season are due on August 16. For details go to https://www.dacamera.com/learn/young-artist-auditions/. The Young Artist Program is a chamber music fellowship program for emerging professional instrumentalists, vocalists, and composers which is designed to achieve two goals: Provide career-expanding experiences and training...

Monday’s Houston Chronicle includes a front page story about the collaboration between Theater District Houston and Harris County that brought arts programming into the juvenile justice system. This successful project brought programming from Da Camera, Houston Grand Opera, Houston Ballet, Alley Theater and Theatre Under the Stars to various juvenile...

Tonight’s Weinberg and Mendelssohn concert will take place tonight as scheduled. We are making a few minor changes to the schedule to shorten the evening and expect the concert to end around 10pm, in advance of additional rain predicted for overnight. Please join us if you’re able for this final...

In a “Listen” post on The New Yorker’s web site, acclaimed critic Alex Ross shares his enthusiasm for composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg, whose Piano Quintet will be performed Friday night by Sarah Rothenberg and the Daedalus string Quartet. Ross writes: “Weinberg, a Polish-Jewish composer who spent most of his life in...

In this new video, pianist and Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg discusses Mieczysław Weinberg’s piano quintet. More information about the concert.

In this new video, Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg provides an inside look at Da Camera’s season finale, introducing audiences to a composer new to the Da Camera series.

The Houston Chronicle’s Andrew Dansby interviewed jazz trumpter Dave Douglas about his concert Friday night saluting trumpet legendy Dizzy Gillespie. “People ask me why I’m doing a Dizzy Gillespie project. I say, “How could it have taken me this long to do a Dizzy Gillespie project?”…Dizzy was such an interesting...

Da Camera has announced the 2019/2020 season. Highlights include the opening night concert Bon Appetit!, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, and pianist Richard Goode playing Beethoven. Subscribe now for this 7-concert series featuring guitarist John Scofield; the Blue Note Records 80th Birthday Celebration; saxophonist Branford Marsalis, the Dafnis Prieto Big Band,...

Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg appeared on Houston Public Media’s Houston Matters, discussing her 25 years with Da Camera and previewing Vienna 1900: In the Garden of Dreams. Listen to the interview here

Houston Press‘s Susie Tommaney previews Sarah Rothenberg’s Vienna 1900: In the Garden of Dreams, coming to Hobby Center February 1 and 2. “Rothenberg is a quadruple-threat in this immersive experience; not only is she on piano, but the concept, scenario and direction are all hers. The approach brings together those who...

In this latest video in our series of insights into Vienna 1900: In the Garden of Dreams, from the production’s creator, Sarah Rothenberg discussed the Brahms Intermezzo in B Minor, Op. 119 that is the first piece she plays in this new production.

In this new video, Vienna 1900‘s director and creator Sarah Rothenberg gives you an inside look at this new immersive production, coming to The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, February 1 and 2. Concept, scenario and direction: Sarah Rothenberg Projection design: Sven Ortel Ligting and set design: Marcus Doshi...

The Da Camera Young Artist Program is a fellowship program for emerging professional instrumentalists, vocalists, and composers. The program provides career-expanding experiences and training to the next generation of artists, encouraging them to create music for the community throughout their careers, and offer students and new audiences exposure to great...

Andrew Dansby of the Houston Chronicle interviewed NEA Jazz Master Jack DeJohnette in advance of Saturday’s concert. “I’m always looking to change up a situation,” DeJohnette tells Dansby. “Most musicians I work with are the same way. Musicians who are expansive are always looking for different projects. Different musicians bring...

Today, we are announcing a programming change in the jazz series. We are sorry to announce that Dr. Lonnie Smith was forced to withdraw due to illness and will not appear on November 3. At the same time, we are pleased to announce that Da Camera’s jazz series will open...

Houstonia’s Sydney Boyd interviewed Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg for a look back at her 25 seasons with Da Camera for her piece “Creative Combinations: Sarah Rothenberg Looks Back at 25 Years with Da Camera. “My goal,” Rothenberg tells Boyd “is authentic art that really reaches people in a way that...

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, September 29, for the recital by pianist Richard Goode with Sarah Rothenberg at Wortham Theater Center’s Cullen Theater. The Theater District Parking Garage is open for parking. However, renovation and repairs after extensive damage from Hurricane Harvey are continuing. The tunnel between...

The New York Times asked some of their favorite artists, including Bad Plus pianist Ethan Iverson and soprano Julia Bullock, to tell them about the sounds they cherish. Click here to read about and listen to their choices.

ENJOY FREE DA CAMERA PERFORMANCES at Theater District Open House Violinist Boson Mo and pianist Sarah Rothenberg, 12:20 PM, Zilkha Hall, The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. Boson Mo and Sarah Rothenberg have performed together in the original Da Camera production A Proust Sonata. Boson Mo has “stunning intonation,...

Da Camera partnered with KIPP: Sharp to create a unique Music Encounter residency for students. Young Artist composer Robert J. Coe created a new school song for KIPP: Sharp with lyrics that students helped write. The combined orchestra and choir premiered the work in June 2018. Music Encounters is a...

As we near the end of our 30th Anniversary season, we would like to announce an opportunity to double your gift to Da Camera.  We have been graciously awarded a matching grant from the Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts in order to help with unanticipated losses as a result...

Sarah Rothenberg to remain artistic director; Toni Capra appointed to newly created post of executive director At Da Camera’s annual meeting this week, the organization’s Board of Directors announced the realignment of its management structure. Sarah Rothenberg, who is celebrating her 25th anniversary as artistic director in the 18-19 season,...

Da Camera partnered with The HUB Houston, a relationship-centered educational program serving teenagers and young adults with neurological differences, to create a unique Music Encounter residency for students. Music Encounters is a Da Camera Education Initiative that brings classical music and jazz to students, just feet from their desks. The...

Da Camera’s Wartime Stories concert has a strong connection to this season’s theme, No Place Like Home. In this new video, the third in a series providing an in-depth inside look at this concert, Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg makes the connection.

Wartime Stories includes stunning visual elements that, combined with the music of Steve Reich and Olivier Messiaen, add dimension and depth to the themes explored in the scores. In part 2 of our Inside Look at this concert, Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg explains how award-winning lighting designer Jennifer Tipton created...

Composers Steve Reich and Olivier Messiaen are rarely put together in one musical program, but in Wartime Stories on April 21, Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg explores themes of uprootedness and absence from home through their personal experiences. This is where it all begins.

On April 15, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents a classic French war drama selected by Sarah Rothenberg in its popular Movies Houstonians Love series. This annual film series invites notable Houstonians from different walks of life to present a favorite film. The Museum will screen Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1969 war...

Da Camera and Discovery Green have announced the lineup for the annual series of free concerts celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month, Da Camera JAM at Discovery Green. The series culminates with the Houston debut of Mwenso and the Shakes. Thursday, April 5 6:30 p.m. Students from the storied HSPVA Jazz Department...

HOUSTON WOMAN MAGAZINE RELEASES SPECIAL EDITION FEATURING HOUSTON’S 50 MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN OF 2017 Sarah Rothenberg, Da Camera’s Artistic and General Director, has been named one of “Houston’s 50 Most Influential Women of 2017” by Houston Woman Magazine. Each of the honorees was nominated for inclusion on the “50 Women”...

In this new video, Artistic and General Director Sarah Rothenberg tells you all about Beethoven for All. Check out upcoming events here.  

The reviews are coming in for the New York premiere of A Proust Sonata, which recently had three performances at FIAF French Institute Alliance Francaise. Parterre raved “A highly original theater piece making use of contemporary sounds and sights (and modern technology) to summarize the vast masterpiece, creating a serene...

Sherry Cheng of Arts and Culture magazine has done an in-depth piece about Da Camera’s Beethoven for All project, the free Beethoven string quartet cycle the organization is presenting in celebration of the 30th anniversary. Read the piece here.

Sarah Rothenberg will perform works of Satie and John Cage at the December 13 memorial for poet John Ashbery at New York’s 92nd St Y. Co-sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, PennSound, Poets House and the Poetry Society of America, the event features Maxine Groffsky, Elizabeth Hazan, Ann Lauterbach,...

Due to the effects of Hurricane Harvey, Da Camera has had to identify alternate venues for all the concerts scheduled for Wortham Center this season. At this time, all but one concert has a confirmed venue, with one concert requiring a date change. Three upcoming jazz concerts — Charles Lloyd...

On Giving Tuesday, the global day of giving, please help Da Camera reach 300 donations of $30 or more, in honor of our 30th anniversary season. Click here to donate. For your gift of $100 or more, you will receive a commemorative Beethoven for All t-shirt! Da Camera’s 30th anniversary...

The Houston Chronicle’s Eric Skelly gave a rave review to Monday night’s performance of Schubert’s Winterreise at the Menil Collection. Praising pianist Sarah Rothenberg — “Her keyboard depicted everything from blustery gusts of wind and dramatic flashes of lightning, to the protagonist’s own leaping, racing heartbeat and the delicate drops...

Check out two new videos featuring Da Camera Artistic and General Director Sarah Rothenberg’s commentary on the upcoming performances of Schubert’s Winterreise and about the connection to to the powerful works of visual art by Mona Hatoum now on view at the Menil Collection. See the videos on Da Camera’s...

On January 10, 2018, Sarah Rothenberg’s A Proust Sonata will have its New York premiere in a co-presentation with French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF). Performances are Wednesday, January 10 through Friday, January 12 at 7:30 PM at FIAF’s Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street. Tickets go on sale November...

Houston Strong: A Theater District Benefit Honoring Local Heroes Wednesday, September 27, 8pm, Miller Outdoor Theater: FREE Please join us for a benefit performance at Miller Outdoor Theatre honoring community heroes who emerged in the storm and celebrating the resilience of our city. https://www.facebook.com/events/283660582119027/ Da Camera will be represented by...

Due to the effects of Hurricane Harvey, we have identified an alternate venue for our first three jazz concerts of the 17/18 season. ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT, Oct 6: UH CULLEN PERFORMANCE HALL TIEMPO LIBRE, Nov. 10: UH CULLEN PERFORMANCE HALL SONGS OF FREEDOM, Dec. 1: UH CULLEN PERFORMANCE HALL CULLEN...

Da Camera’s 2017-2018 season opening concert, From Harlem to Havana: Harlem Quartet with Aldo López-Gavilán, piano, will go on as planned, at a new location: Christ Church Cathedral, 1117 Texas Avenue in downtown Houston. Ticket holders are being contacted by email, and will be re-issued new tickets. Going forward, all...

As our city begins to recover from Hurricane Harvey, our thoughts are with all of those affected by this devastating event. Da Camera is very fortunate. Our staff is safe and our offices here in the Menil Collection neighborhood were not damaged. Our season will open as planned on Saturday,...

NPR’s Nate Chinen spoke to Da Camera’s Sarah Rothenberg and to several Houston native jazz musicians including Robert Glasper, Jason Moran and Kendrick Scott for a story posted on NPR’s web site. “We’re living in a time where the whole idea of home is so fragile,” Rothenberg says in the...

We regretfully announce that the 24th Annual TransCanada Theater District Open House has been cancelled due to expected severe weather and out of concern for the safety of our employees and patrons. Please stay safe and be prepared for the severe weather. Da Camera Open House specials will be available...

Da Camera celebrates its 30th anniversary season “No Place Like Home” with Beethoven For All, a free Beethoven string quartet cycle for the people of Houston. The initiative takes inspiration from the Beethoven cycle performed by the Juilliard Quartet during Da Camera’s first season in 1988­–89. Performances will take place...

Broadway World’s Natalie de la Garza spoke with Artistic and General Director Sarah Rothenberg about the 2017/2018 season, and it’s theme, No Place Like Home. “I think all of us Americans have been thinking about the idea of home and what America means to us, and how much our culture...

Three concert packages for the 2017/2018 season are on sale now. Select three chamber music concerts or three jazz concerts and get great music, the best seats and all the benefits of being a subscriber. Click here to purchase your package. If you would like a mix of chamber music...

Artistic and General Director Sarah Rothenberg has announced that Joshua Rubin (pictured performing at New York’s National Sawdust) will be the clarinetist for the concert Wartime Stories, scheduled for April 21, 2018. Rubin will join Sarah Rothenberg and members of the St. Lawrence Quartet for Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the...

Applications are due Friday, August 18, and auditions are set for Thursday and Friday, August 24 and 25 for instrumentalists and vocalists interested in the Da Camera Young Artist Program for the 2017/2018 season. The Performer Track of the Da Camera Young Artist Program is designed for emerging professionals who...

Congratulations to Da Camera Young Artist Composer Ben Morris, who was recently awarded a Fulbright Grant and whose musical North Pond just had its premiere at the MATCH. Morris recently reported that ” I’ll be studying for ten months in Oslo, Norway under a Fulbright Grant, working with jazz composer...

Da Camera has announced its 2017/2018 30th anniversary season, with the theme NO PLACE LIKE HOME. The 17/18 season’s programming centers on Houston’s rich history and asks relevant questions about the meaning of home. The season explores America, exile and how the universal theme of home is expressed in music,...

New this season, Da Camera presents five nights of an innovative mix of jazz, classical and contemporary, featuring international artists and outstanding local talent. Artists and audiences meet over drinks between the sets at the new midtown arts venue located at 3400 Main St. Two sets per night. One set:...

Houstonia magazine’s Chris Becker interviewed Joshua Redman ahead of Friday night’s Still Dreaming concert, honoring the saxophonist’s father Dewey Redman and his band of Ornette Coleman alums, Old and New Dreams: “Ornette’s music was and is revolutionary,” says Redman, who was born in 1969. “He had these incredible songs that...

Da Camera has announced the schedule for its series of free events at downtown’s Discovery Green park in celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month. This year’s series includes master drummer Joel Fulgham’s Big Band, brass party band Red Baraat and the trio of pianist Jason Moran, bass player Chris Walker and...

Da Camera Artistic and General Director Sarah Rothenberg comments on the significance of the upcoming apperance by violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt in this new video.

Houston Public Media’s Anya Wilkening interviewed violinist Christian Tetzlaff in advance of his visit to Houston for a recital with pianist Lars Vogt on February 16. Click here for the interview Click here for concert details.

In a new video, Da Camera Artistic and General Director Sarah Rothenberg introduces the Elias String Quartet, appearing at the Menil Collection on Tuesday, January 31.

Da Camera’s latest original production, A PROUST SONATA, conceived and directed by Sarah Rothenberg, was selected by a jury of international producers to be featured at the International Society of Performing Arts “Pitch New Works” Program at ISPA’s January conference held at The Times Center in New York. Bringing together...

Da Camera is proud to announce that the National Endowment for the Arts has awarded the organization a $25,000 grant to support performances of chamber music and jazz as part of the upcoming 17/18 30th anniversary season. Stay tuned for the announcement of the season in early 2017. For its...

Giving Tuesday is November 29. Giving Tuesday is a movement to create an international day of giving at the beginning of the holiday season. We encourage you to support Da Camera’s innovative Music Encounters program on Giving Tuesday, and share your support on social media with the hashtag #GivingTuesday. Da...

Houston Public Media’s Joshua Zinn sat down with pianist and Da Camera Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg to talk about the upcoming Picasso and Music concerts, November 14th and 15th at the Menil Collection. Listen to the interview.

New in our series of video introductions to the concerts in our 16/17 season, Sarah Rothenberg introduces the upcoming performances of Picasso and Music, November 14 and 15 at The Menil Collection.

Da Camera’s recording Rothko Chapel, released in October 2015, is included in the first round voting for the 2015 Grammy Awards in two categories: Best Choral Performance and Best Classical Compendium. The recording received rave reviews: The best classical recordings of 2015 “terrific concept album” – The Chicago Tribune 5 stars...

The Houston Chronicle’s Wei Chen reviewed Da Camera’s season opening concert, Josephine Baker: A Personal Portrait. Read the review. (Subscription required.) “Clearly, anyone expecting a vaudevillian night of song and dance was in for a surprise. The show, featuring members of the International Contemporary Ensemble, is a dark and contemplative...

Thelonious Monk in 1959. Jason Moran right now. The world didn’t understand that concert. Moran aims to fix that. by Andrew Dansby Read the full article here. (Subscription required.) Sample from the interview: “He’s a much larger figure than just what he does at the piano,” Moran says. “I thought...

DA CAMERA ANNOUNCES $1.64 MILLION BEQUEST Largest gift in music organization’s 29-year history Annual James K. Schooler Concert will be inaugurated in 2016-17 season Da Camera has announced that it has received a $1.64 million bequest from the estate of James K. Schooler. This is the largest gift in the...

Check out a newly-posted interview with Sarah Rothenberg and Houston Public Media’s Joshua Zinn about the 2016/2017 ROOTS season. Rothenberg and Zinn talk about Friday’s Josephine Baker concert and other upcoming events. Click here for the interview.

Poet Claudia Rankine, who wrote the spoken texts featured in Josephine Baker: A Personal Portrait, has been awarded a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called “genius” grant. Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; two plays including Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx...

Pianist Jason Moran will be joined by his Bandwagon Trio and an expanded band known as the Big Bandwagon for the October 7 concert Jason Moran Presents In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall, 1959. The line up is Jason Moran, piano; Tarus Mateen, bass; Nasheet Waits, drums; Ralph Alessi,...

Sunday’s Theater District Open House features two free Da Camera performances in the Wortham Center’s Cullen Theater: 12:50pm – 1:15pm Da Camera chamber music performance featuring Boson Mo, violin; Abhijit Sengupta, viola; Annamarie Reader, cello and Timothy Hester, piano 2:35pm – 3:00pm Da Camera jazz featuring drummer Sam Dinkins III...

The New York Times’s Zachary Woolfe intereviewed soprano Julia Bullock and composer/drummer Tyshawn Sorey about their Josephine Baker: A Personal Project, which opens Da Camera’s season on September 30. Read the interview. Bullock describes the “living project” which is being revised for its Mostly Mozart performance and will continue to...

In this new video, Da Camera of Houston Young Artist Program participants Bethany Baxter, Jackson Guillen, Ingrid Hunter and Teresa Procter speak about what the two-year program/fellowship has meant for them, including learning about programming, taking administrative workshops, experiencing what it’s like to connect with different communities and understanding how...

Circle of Fifths is a musical passport to Houston for young professionals. Experience the incredible artistry provided by Houston chamber music organizations. Enjoy performances from Houston’s premiere ensemble organizations: Ars Lyrica Houston, Houston Chamber Choir, ROCO, Mercury and Da Camera. The Circle of Fifths pass includes 5 great concerts for...

Jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran talked with NPR’s Audie Cornish and jazz bassist Christian McBride about the recent “onslaught” of Houston jazz musicians exploding onto the national scene. They include Moran himself, Robert Glasper (who has appeared on Da Camera’s jazz series) and pianist Helen Sung (who appeared on...

Congratulations to Cecile McLorin Salvant, named Female Singer of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association at their annual awards ceremony in New York on June 15! Also honored were vocalist Gregory Porter, pianist Vijay Iyer, clarinetist Anat Cohen, saxophonist Charles Lloyd, saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa and others who have been...

Auditions for vocalists and instrumentalists interested in becoming Da Camera Young Artists for the 2016/2017 season have been set for August 25 and 26. Click here for detailed information.

The new recording by Chicago-born trumpeter Marquis Hill, who makes his Houston debut on the Da Camera jazz series on March 11, is set for release on June 24. With release of The Way We Play, Hill’s debut for Concord Jazz, his profile as a new commanding voice on the jazz...

A recording of The Colorado, the music from the documentary film with live music which had its world premiere at Da Camera in April, has been released on New Amsterdam records. The project is driven by original compositions from William Brittelle, Glenn Kotche, Paola Prestini, Shara Nova (previously known as Shara Worden),...

Former Da Camera Young Artist Ensemble WindSync recently won the gold medal at the prestigious Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. WindSync captured the Gold Medal ($3,500.00) in the Senior Wind Division. In addition to prize money, the ensemble will participate in a Winner’s Tour of the Midwestern United States this fall. Members...

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) has announced the 21 recipients of its fifth annual Doris Duke Artist Awards, honoring recipients in the field of dance, jazz, and theatre. Among them are Houston native jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran. On the DDCF web site, Moran was asked, “What are the creative...

The April 21 Da Camera JAM at Discovery Green event, cancelled due to bad weather, has been rescheduled for Thursday, May 5 at 6:30. The event features a set of Jazz with Strings, featuring trumpeter Dennis Dotson and arrangements by Robert “Doc” Morgan. Morgan is the artistic adviser for the...

Andrew Dansby of the Houston Chronicle interviewed film director Murat Eyuboglu and composer/percussionist Glenn Kotche about Tuesday’s premiere of The Colorado. Read the full article here. Subscription required. “And perhaps most thrillingly, (film director Murat) Eyuboglu means the music, which he conceived as central to the cross-disciplinary project. He titled...

In this new video, Sarah Rothenberg introduces The Colorado, having its world premiere at Da Camera on Tuesday, April 12.  

Da Camera and Discovery Green present a series of free concerts celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month — Da Camera JAM at Discovery Green – Friday, April 15 and Thursday, April 21 and 28 at 6:30 pm at the downtown park. Da Camera JAM at Discovery Green features jazz artists from the Greater Houston...

Information about auditioning for the Da Camera Young Artist Program for the 2016/2017 has been announced. Details are available here on the Da Camera web site. Click here for information.

Da Camera Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg introduces you to the upcoming event with Orlando Consort in this new video.

Theodore Bale of the Houston Chronicle talked to Donald Greig of Orlando Consort for a preview in the Houston Chronicle. “Joan of Arc has everything – mystic, saint, youth, ambition for her king, the story of someone who comes from nowhere,” said baritone Donald Greig, a founding member of the...

Check out this Instagram post where composer and percussionist Glenn Kotche talks about his involvement with The Colorado.

Actor Mark Rylance, who recently won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance in Bridge of Spies, is the narrator for the upcoming live music/documentary film event The Colorado. Read more about all the collaborators at projectcolorado.com. The Colorado is Tuesday, April 12 at the Wortham Theater Center.

Club Da Camera, Da Camera’s 28th annual gala, isn’t a typical black-tie affair. It isn’t a traditional dinner. And it isn’t only an opportunity to support an organization that has become critical in defining Houston’s eclectic performing arts scene. Club Da Camera will welcome guests into a posh, swanky lounge...

In conjunction with the exhibition Mark Rothko: A Retrospective, on view through January 24, 2016, at the MFAH, the 40th Annual Ruth K. Shartle Symposium—“Rothko in Retrospect”—explores Rothko’s career in the context of his contemporaries in New York and the influence his paintings still hold for us today. Sarah Rothenberg...

The new ECM recording of Da Camera’s unique Rothko Chapel CD is now available for pre-order. With an official release date of October 23, the new CD features Morton Feldman’s 1971 masterpiece Rothko Chapel and works of Satie and John Cage. Rothko Chapel was inspired by Morton Feldman’s visit to...

The Houston Chronicle’s Colin Eatock interviews “soulful soprano” Dawn Upshaw in advance of Saturday’s Opening Night concert, featuring her performing songs by Charles Ives and George Crumb’s The Winds of Destiny. Artistic and General Director Sarah Rothenberg spoke to Houstonia about the concert. “The power of music is that it...

This fall sees the release of two long-awaited Da Camera recordings on prestigious European labels featuring works inspired by Houston’s Rothko Chapel.  On October 23, ECM releases Da Camera’s unique Music for Rothko Chapelprogram featuring Morton Feldman’s 1971 masterpiece Rothko Chapel and works of Satie and John Cage. Rothko Chapel...

The University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts recently brought back the Mitchell Artist Lecture, a landmark public program that annually features major figures in the world of artistic collaboration. The Center’s 2015 speakers were revered artistic and life partners, Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran, whose...

Da Camera has moved to its new location at 1402 Sul Ross, at the corner of Sull Ross and Yupon across from Rothko Chapel.

Houston Symphony announced that it has recruited four new string musicians to be part of a new Community Embedded Musician Program. Congratulations to former Da Camera Young Artists David Connor and Hellen Weberpal for joining the first class of musicians! Read all the details here.

Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times weighs in on the performance of For Philip Guston at Ojai Music Festival featuring Da Camera’s Sarah Rothenberg, calling it “a magisterial performance.” Read the review.

Set and costume design Marina Draghici and projection and video designer Hannah Wasileski have joined the production team for Sarah Rothenberg’s Marcel Proust Project. Marina Draghici won the Tony Award for Best Costumes and Lucille Lortel Award for Best Costumes for her work on Fela! Hannah Wasileksi won an Obie...

For many musicians in the Houston area, the Da Camera Young Artist Program is a unique opportunity for career development. The program is designed for those musicians who are just embarking on their professional careers, and it allows them to engage with each other and the Houston community in a...

HOUSTON (July 28, 2015) – The Houston Symphony announced today that it has successfully recruited four new string musicians to be part of an initiative announced earlier this year to embed musicians more deeply in the community. The four musicians/educators will focus on enhancing the orchestra’s growing education and community engagement...

THEATER DISTRICT OPEN HOUSE Visit Da Camera in the Grand Foyer of Wortham Theater Center. Great deals on our “daring programs that serve as a gathering spot for music lovers.” (culturemap.com) Save 10% on the already-discounted Jazz series, Build Your Own series, Chamber Music series or the Full Season. Get...

Say farewell to the 14/15 class of Young Artists at special May 14 concert On Thursday, May 14 at 7:15 PM, The Da Camera Young Artists present highlights from their 2014/2015 concerts, including works performed at the Menil Collection; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Methodist Hospital. Works of Brahms,...

15/16 season features commissions, new productions and Beethoven Perspectives series Da Camera’s 15/16 season features a prominent co-commission, as Da Camera joins the Metropolitan Museum of Art in commissioning The Colorado: A Film Oratorio. The season will see the world premiere of Sarah Rothenberg’s new production The Marcel Proust Project,...