DACAMERA Young Artists: Beautiful, Picturesque and Sublime

Event details

  • Thursday, February 9 | FREE
  • 6:30 PM & 7:30 PM
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston – Kinder Building
  • 1001 Bissonnet St, Houston TX 77005

DACAMERA Young Artists present a concert inspired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Stuart Collection of 18th and 19th-century British landscapes, featuring music by British composers Henry Purcell, Gustav Holst, Judith Weir and Oliver Knussen.

Gustav Holst: Phantasy Quartet on British Folk Songs, Op. 36

A Purcell Garland

Oliver Knussen: …upon one note: Fantasia after Purcell 
Henry Purcell: Fantasia 7 (Transcribed by George Benjamin)
Henry Purcell: Fantasia 13 (Arranged and completed by Colin Matthews)

Judith Weir: Atlantic Drift 

DACAMERA Young Artists Ariel Lee, violin; David Dietz, cello; Jonathan Mak, piano and celesta; Keeheon Nam, clarinet; Lauren Ross, viola; Teresa Wang, violin

Performance is free; entry to the museum is free on Thursdays.

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