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- Wednesday | April 1 | 12:00 PM
- Grand Foyer, Wortham Theater Center
- 501 Texas Ave, Houston TX 77002
- 713-524-5050 | boxoffice@dacamera.com
Brian Perez Quartet
DACAMERA celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month with a free performance by the Brian Perez Quartet. Guest artists Brian Perez, saxophone; Mark Simmons Jr., drums; Jose-Miguel Yamal, piano with DACAMERA Young Artist Marwan Ghonima, bass.
Brian Perez is a saxophone and woodwind performer, educator, and composer. He is Director of Jazz Studies and woodwinds at Texas Southern University. As a seasoned musician in jazz, classical and pop styles, he has toured the nation as a woodwind performer for musical theater companies, performed with orchestras and wind ensembles, given solo concert recitals and has performed across the globe with his jazz quartet. His quartet has performed nationally and internationally including in Spain, Colombia and Venezuela.
A Little Day Music is a series of free concerts presented at noon on the first Wednesday of the month in the Grand Foyer of the Wortham Center. Each concert is designed to deliver DACAMERA’s signature programming to an audience including senior citizens, downtown professionals and students. The series features a variety of chamber music and jazz, presented in an accessible, one-hour concert format. Audiences are invited to enjoy their lunch while listening to the music.
For groups of 10 or more, call 713-524-7601 ext. 15.
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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
- 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 choral music arranged for string quartet and a twentieth century work by Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti.
Coltrane 100
- Friday | April 10 | 8:00 PM | TICKET ALERT: VERY LOW INVENTORY!
- 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.
OUR VALUES
Connection
We value and nurture rich and often unexpected connections among musical genres, art forms, and ideas; between people and places; between the past and the present.
Exploration
We believe that openness to new experiences and enthusiasm for learning are vital to human experience. At the vanguard of arts organizations, we continually evolve our ways of presenting to combine an unusual mix of in-depth exploration and accessibility.
Excellence
DACAMERA has become synonymous with quality; the common denominator of our diverse activities, on stage and in the community, is excellence.
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