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MOORES SCHOOL OF MUSIC 2024-2025 SEASON

 

 

 

Events

News & Notes

  • Inside UH’s College and Pre-College Piano Institutes—where mentorship, collaboration, and community define a new generation of artistry.

  • From student to director, Austin’s journey embodies the spirit and success of the Texas Music Festival.

  • A stunning concert performance of Turandot showcases Puccini’s brilliance and the future of opera.

  • Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts visiting artists work with students to visualize the structure of sound.

  • As she retires, Dr. Betsy Cook Weber leaves a lasting legacy in choral studies and continues with the Grammy-winning Houston Chamber Choir.

  • Tugce Ozcivan shares the art of balancing passion and perseverance.

  • UH Welcomes New Director for Innovative Music Therapy Program

    The new four-year degree, a collaboration between UH colleges and the Texas Medical Center, equips graduates for clinical roles in over 40 settings.

  • The 探花视频鈥檚 Moores Opera Center Announces 2024-25 Season

    The Moores Opera Center at the 探花视频’s Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts is excited to announce its 2024-25 season, featuring four captivating performances.

  • Moores School of Music student to receive $50,000 scholarship.

  • Flutist Jonah Murphy, 24, Wins First Place at Texas Music Festival鈥檚 Cynthia Woods Mitchell-Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition

    Competition’s Second Year Honoring the Combined Legacies of Two Legendary Local Music Lover Philanthropists, in Association with Houston Symphony

  • Festival pioneers' influence resonates through 33 years of the Texas Music Festival.

  • Harvard and Juilliard-trained composer blurs boundaries, creating unique connections in his music performed worldwide.

  • In addition to the Grand Prix win, the Concert Chorale came home with two Best Interpretation prizes and the Best Repertoire Selection.

  • Renowned Painter and Pioneer of Minimalism, Frank Stella, Passes Away at 87

    Remembering the artist behind "Euphonia," a three-part mural inside the Moores Opera House.

  • Summer program at UH Moores School of Music features concert series and master classes.

  • 探花视频 Students collaborate to craft a children's book.

  • Moores School Concert Chorale has been named one of the  in the country by College Rank, coming in at No. 10 on the list.

  • Annual Luncheon surpasses $50,000 in contributions, directing support to special programs and student scholarships at the Moores School of Music

  • Formosa Quartet's transformative residency at Moores School of Music

  • Joe Muñoz has been appointed Executive Director of TMEA and will begin July 1, 2024.

  • KGMCA welcomes three extraordinary artists in dance, guitar, and mariachi, pushing boundaries and fostering cultural unity on campus and in the community.

  • For five years, the 探花视频's Mariachi Pumas have been leaving a lasting imprint on the Bayou City.

  • Ritmo, established in 1929, is an esteemed publication, honored with the "Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts" by the Spanish government. This prestigious magazine provides a comprehensive view of global musical trends, interviews with top musicians, concert updates, and thorough reviews of new records and videos. 

  • In celebration of the 4th annual Mariachi Festival, UH Mariachi Pumas perform on Houston Life's "What's Happening Now" segment.
  • Musician and educator, Dr. Brian Kai Chin, is making his way to the 探花视频’s Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts as the Director of Moores School of Music.
  • Music, legacy and resilience with The Spirit Of Houston

  • The Concert Chorale triumphs with a remarkable third-place victory at the prestigious CantaRode International Choir Competition held in the Netherlands.

  • First Prize and the Audience Favorite went to Xayvion Davidson, 19, a bassoonist from Nashville who just completed his freshman year at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music.

  • Houston Symphony and the 探花视频 form the new Cynthia Woods Mitchell-Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition and more.

  • Associate Dean of Piano Studies and Artistic Initiatives at Curtis Institute of Music will take the stage at Texas Music Festival.

  • Under the direction of Chris Bennett, BMJH Honors Band is the first Pearland ISD program to be recognized by the Sousa Foundation.

  • This unique cross-cultural collaboration between The Sydney Conservatorium of Music and Moores School of Music's AURA Ensemble was brought to the Moores Opera House Stage at the 探花视频.

  • Moores School of Music and the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth Launch Second Music Mexico Symposium

    Three-day interdisciplinary event explores past and present of Mexican music, May 18-20, at the 探花视频.

     

  • Kathleen Belcher, Keith Chambers, and Daniel Belcher bring exceptional talent and experience to the Moores School of Music.

  • This genre-bending theatrical piece is written and performed by Moores School of Music alumni, faculty, and staff.

  • 探花视频 Moores School of Music Names Formosa Quartet as Quartet-in-Residence

    The quartet will perform two February concerts announcing their residency at UH. The quartet's appointment supports the school's string and chamber music programs, with individual ensemble coaching, master classes and public performances.
  • The 2023 installment of the festival coincides with the launch of the new jazz studies degree program at the school.
  • Interview with co-stage directors, Nicole Kenley-Miller and Lawrence Edelson about the World of SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM

  • 25th Annual Moores School Jazz Fest

    The event runs from February 24-25 and will include clinics and performances by guest artist, Saxophonist Bill Evans. The public performances will take place 7:30 Friday, February 24 and Saturday, February 25 in the Moores Opera House.

  • Sally Mayes is coming back to helm a new course at the McGovern College of the Arts titled “Song Performance for Musical Theatre.

  • Die Fledermaus at the Moores Opera Center

    Join us at the ultimate masked ball and discover not only why Johann Strauss Jr. is known as the Waltz King, but also just how far some people will go to exact their revenge!
    January 26-29, 2023

  • UH Students to Learn 'Healing Power of Music

    探花视频 to Add New Degree Program in Music Therapy.
  • The 2020 production of Don Giovanni at MOC has won the American Prize for best university opera performance. The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts is the nation's most comprehensive series of contests in the performing arts.
  • Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner honors 探花视频’s Mariachi Pumas director and educator José Longoria with a special proclamation recognizing his significant contributions to the city’s cultural landscape.

Creative Works

  • Published by Oxford University Press as part of the Oxford Studies in Music Theory series, the book examines artistic practices in popular song that draw from a vast range of stylistic sources, including rock, blues, folk, soul, funk, fusion, and hip hop, as well as European classical and African American gospel musical traditions.

  • The Forging of an American Composer 

    Edward MacDowell’s European Piano Music is a critical study of the piano music that MacDowell composed during his European sojourn (1876–1888), steeped in reception history and with a special emphasis of programmaticism.

  • The initial volume in a series of American Bach Society Guides, Bach's Art of Fugue and Musical Offering is a comprehensive study of two closely related masterworks of the late Baroque fugal style. This compact guide, intended for practitioners, music scholars, and a general readership, summarizes a considerable body of knowledge about these famously cerebral collections in an engaging and accessible style.
  • Moores School of Music's Howard Pollack, Ph.D., has been honored with the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society for American Music and simultaneously releases his eighth book, "Samuel Barber: His Life and Legacy"
  • The Leader is a chamber opera based on Eugène Ionesco’s Le Maître, a one-act political satire from 1953. Multiple MSM alumni, as well as one faculty member, are featured on the recording.
    Available for purchase as of September 9, 2022
  • David Ashley White's, 2015 Esther Farfel Award winner, collection of lyrical chamber music and songs.
  • Carl Nielson Complete Works for Violin Solo, Violin and Piano; Hasse Borup, Violin; Andrew Staupe, Piano

  • Folk Music Experiments in Central Europe at the Millennium by Barbara Rose Lange

  • A Guidebook for Training Effective Teachers by Courtney Crappell

  • A recording of songs and instrumental works by Kevin Puts, Ned Rorem, and James Scott Balentine