Encore Houston: Recent Episodes
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Encore Houston is a weekly show featuring a concert recording from a local ensemble or performance organization in Houston. Each episode features the concert and brief commentary from host Joshua Zinn, with a preview of an upcoming performance by the featured organization at the end of the program.
Kinetic celebrates women in music with works by Amy Beach, Gabriela Lena Frank, and a world premiere by Nicky Sohn.
Loop38 presents new music by Theo Chandler and Martha Horst, along with other works by contemporary composers.
The Apollo Chamber Players present music by Copland, Thomson, and a pair of world premieres from Allison Loggins-Hull and Mark Buller.
On this episode of Encore Houston, two concerts from MUSIQA showcase an eclectic repertoire of new music from composers near and far.
Music in this episode:
- FLANNERY CUNNINGHAM: as a ghost before you on the road
- Tyler Martin, flute
- Tonya Burton, viola
- David Dietz, cello
- Flannery Cunningham, electronics
- WILL HEALY: Small Spaces
- Tyler Martin, flute
- Tonya Burton, viola
- David Dietz, cello
- Blake Wilkins, percussion
- BENJAMIN HORNE: I Remember You
- Maiko Sasaki, clarinet
- Jacob Schafer, violin
- David Dietz, cello
- Chelsea de Souza, piano
- Performance date: 10/14/2022
- BADIE KHALEGHIAN: Turbulent Prelude
- James Palmer, piano
- OLIVIA BENNETT: Prelude to the Afterlife
- James Palmer, piano
- ROBERT HONSTEIN: Juno - II. still
- Amanda Galick, flute
- Maiko Sasaki, clarinet
- Jacob Schafer, violin
- David Dietz, cello
- Blake Wilkins, percussion
- Yvonne Chen, piano
- ALEX BERKO: Erupt/Erode
- James Palmer, piano
- PIERRE JALBERT: All Is Now
- Amanda Galick, flute
- Maiko Saski, clarinet
- Connor Landers, horn
- Mary Grace Johnson, violin
- Jacob Schafer, violin
- Tonya Burton, viola
- David Dietz, cello
- Austin Lewellen, double bass
- Blake Wilkins, percussion
- Yvonne Chen, piano
- Eiki Isomura, conductor
- Performance date: 1/20/2023
- Originally aired: 11/4/2023
New episodes of Encore Houston air Saturdays at 10 PM, with a repeat broadcast Sundays at 4 PM, all on Houston Public Media Classical.
On this episode of Encore Houston, the Kinetic Ensemble presents a pair of world premieres--one by Nicky Sohn that reflects the winter storm of February 2021, and a string orchestra version of Patrick Harlin's The Wilderness Anthology.
Music in this episode:
- NICKY SOHN: What Happens if the Pipes Burst?
- PATRICK HARLIN: The Wilderness Anthology
- PAUL NOVAK: a string quartet is like a flock of birds
- LEO WEINER: Pastorale, Fantasy, and Fugue
- Performance date: 10/9/2022
- Originally aired: 10/27/2023
New episodes of Encore Houston air Saturdays at 10 PM, with a repeat broadcast Sundays at 4 PM, all on Houston Public Media Classical.
Musicians from the Texas Music Festival perform music by Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov.
Faculty from the Round Top Music Festival perform works by De Falla, Dutilleux, and Dvořák.
On this episode of Encore Houston, the Houston Chamber Choir and KINETIC present the world premiere performance of Two Streams, a cantata by Daniel Knaggs based on the writings of Saint Faustina.
Music in this episode:
- DANIEL KNAGGS: Two Streams
- Caitlin Aloia, soprano
- Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
- Christopher Bozeka, tenor
- Mark Diamond, baritone
- Robert Simpson, conductor
- Performance date: 11/6/2021
- Originally aired: 1/28/2023
New episodes of Encore Houston air Saturdays at 10 PM, with a repeat broadcast Sundays at 4 PM, all on Houston Public Media Classical.
The Houston Jazz Collective and Nellie McKay perform classics at Miller Outdoor Theatre.
The Apollo Chamber Players perform works by Jerod Impchchaachaaha' Tate, Jake Heggie, and Erberk Eryilmaz
On this episode of Encore Houston, Kinder HSPVA graduate Jalen Baker and other young jazz artists perform for the Houston Jazz Collective, presenting some original works and a few classics featuring jazz vibraphone.
Music in this episode:
- SAM RIVERS: Cyclic Episode
- JALEN BAKER: Healing
- BAKER: Don't shoot
- BAKER: Praise
- BAKER: We Regret to Inform you
- BAKER: Obey/Disobey
- OSCAR PETTIFORD: Blues in the Closet
- DIZZY GILLESPIE: Bebop
- Jalen Baker, vibraphone
- Gavin Moolchan, drums
- Sam Reid, piano
- Corey Dozier, bass
- Performance date: 3/21/2021
- Originally aired: 10/29/2022
New episodes of Encore Houston air Saturdays at 10 PM, with a repeat broadcast Sundays at 4 PM, all on Houston Public Media Classical.
On this episode of Encore Houston, we introduce the Houston Brass Band to the program! We feature highlights from some of their recent concerts.
Music in this episode:
- JAMES CURNOW: Fanfare and Flourishes
- PHILIP SPARKE: Jubilee Overture
- WILLIAM REMMER: Punchinello March
- DEREK BOURGEOIS: Fantasia on Tico-Tico
- GIUSEPPE VERDI, arr. Denis Wright: Grand March from Aida
- CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHÖNBERG, arr. Darrol Barry: "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables
- SAMUEL BARBER, arr. John Mortimer: Adagio for Strings
- JOHN WILLIAMS, arr. Stephen Bulla: Suite from Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- RANDY EDELMAN, arr. Andrew Duncan: Reunion and Finale from Gettysburg
- MYKHAILO VERBYTSKY: "Ukraine has not yet perished"
- TRADITIONAL: Scotland the Brave
- St. Thomas Episcopal School Pipe Band
- ARTHUR SULLIVAN: The Lost Chord
- Bryan Anderson, organ
- HARRY M. WOODS, arr. Magne Rutle: Side by Side
- FREDDIE MERCURY, arr. Darrol Barry: Bohemian Rhapsody
- TOM DAVOREN: Diversions on Calon Lan
- Ryan Rongone, trombone
- KENNETH J. ALFORD: Colonel Bogey March
- Originally aired: 7/2/2022
New episodes of Encore Houston air Saturdays at 10 PM, with a repeat broadcast Sundays at 4 PM, all on Houston Public Media Classical.
Jazz guitarist Mike Moreno performs tracks from his albums and tunes by Wayne Shorter and Victor Young.
KINETIC performs works by living American composers, including Higdon, Adams, and Abels.
The Houston Chamber Choir performs world premieres by Mark Buller, Marcus Maroney, and Pierre Jalbert.
Aperio and New American Voices present music by David Lang and a world premiere by Shawn Crouch.
The New York Philharmonic String Quartet performs works by Haydn, Shostakovich, and Brahms.
Previous performances from the Houston Chamber Choir with music by Bernstein, Brahms, Jalbert, and Duruflé.
Previous performances from the St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society of music by Amy Beach, Gareth Farr, and Shostakovich.
Revisiting some favorite performances from ROCO, MUSIQA and Loop38, the Apollo Chamber Players, and KINETIC.
Chris Dave and the Drumhedz perform an eclectic set of jazz tunes new and old, as well as some hip-hop covers.
MUSIQA performs works by Michael Daugherty, Nina C. Young, Gabriel Bolaños, and others.
The Aizuri Quartet performs works by Hildegard von Bingen, Carlo Gesualdo, Haydn, and Beethoven.
KINETIC performs contemporary works by Caroline Shaw, Caleb Burhans, and a world premiere by Paul Novak
The St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society performs works by Beethoven, Libby Larsen, and Brahms.
ROCO performs new works by Alejandro Basulto, Kevin Lau, Kate Salfelder, and Jess Langston Turner.
Musicians from the Texas Music Festival perform orchestral works by Higdon and Copland.
Musicians at the Round Top Music Festival perform works by Dvořák, Brahms, and Berlioz.
The Apollo Chamber Players perform music from Venezuela and a string quartet by Bartók.
Contemporary ensemble Loop38 performs music by 21st century composers, including a work inspired by Houston's bayou system.
Ars Lyrica performs works by Boccherini, Sor, and other composers working in Spain during the eighteenth century.
On this episode of Encore Houston, we go back to a 2011 performance from the Texas Music Festival, featuring a piece inspired by Tibetan Buddhism and a monster of a late Romantic symphony.
Music in this episode:
- CHRISTOPHER THEOFANDIS: Rainbow Body
- ANTON BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 7 in E major
- Carl St. Clair, conductor
- Performance date: 6/25/2011
- Originally aired: 6/20/2020
New episodes of Encore Houston air Saturdays at 10 PM, with a repeat broadcast Sundays at 4 PM, all on Houston Public Media Classical.
The St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society performs music by Mozart, Villa-Lobos, Muczynski, and Ravel.
MUSIQA performs works by contemporary French composers Naón, Jolas, Dalbavie, Connesson, and Biston.
The Bach Society Houston performs music from their namesake as well as other works for an Advent service.
The Fauré Quartett performs works by D'Indy, Fauré, and Schumann through Chamber Music Houston.
The Houston Chamber Choir performs the first major choral setting of the Diary of Anne Frank.
The Texas New Music Ensemble premieres a new work by an upcoming composer as well as works by established Texas composers.
ROCO performs works by Mendelssohn, Martinu, and some premieres by Huw Watkins and Maxime Goulet.
MUSIQA performs a color-inspired concert with music by Hartke, Loiacono, Gosfield, and Al-Zand.
The St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society performs works by Rachmaninoff, Turina, and Fauré.
Mercury performs works by Vivaldi, Handel, and other European composers from the Baroque era.
The Apollo Chamber Players perform with thereminist Carolina Eyck with some of her original music as well as tunes by Fauré, Saint-Saëns, and Martinů.
Excerpts from Houston Theater District performances by Ars Lyrica, Apollo Chamber Players, Aperio, MUSIQA, Da Camera, and Mercury.
The New Zealand String Quartet performs with members of the St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society in works by Mozart, Dvořák, and Gareth Farr.
The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra performs music by Enescu, Holst, and some world premieres from past seasons by Rick Robinson and Marcus Maroney.
Round Top Music Festival musicians perform chamber works by Schnittke, Britten, and Dvořák.
Musicians from the Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival perform works by Dvořák and Rimsky-Korsakov.
Renowned guitarists Sergio and Odair Assad and mandolinist Avi Avital perform works by Bach, Haydn, Piazzolla, and others.
The St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society performs works for varying combinations of flute, viola, and harp.
Baritone Tyler Duncan and pianist Sarah Rothenberg of Da Camera perform Schubert's Winterreise
The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra performs a world premiere by Alexander Miller and other works by Holst, Mercadante, and Schoenberg.
KINETIC performs works by Hugo Wolf, Grażyna Bacewicz, and a world premiere by Tommy Dougherty.
The Bach Society Houston recreates a Mass from 1817, with music by Bach, Schicht, and Righini.
The Apollo Chamber Players perform Brazilian music from Marcelo Zarvos, Leo Brouwer, and Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Mercury performs music fitting for the holiday season by Corelli, Bach, Mozart, and Rigel.
Chamber Music Houston presents a concert of string sextets by Strauss, Schoenberg, and Tchaikovsky.
The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra performs Haydn, Ravel, and Milhaud, with a world premiere by Brad Sayles.
KINETIC performs music by Mozart, Gesualdo, and Beethoven, along with three contemporary composers.
The Houston Chamber Choir performs music from the Renaissance as well as works by Leonard Bernstein and David Lang.
The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra performs works from and inspired by the eighteenth century.
Meg Griffith from the Texas New Music Ensemble performs works for solo flute and electronics.
Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt perform music by Beethoven, Bartok, Mozart, and Schubert.
The St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society performs music by Brahms and Clara and Robert Schumann.
Chamber musicians at the Round Top Music Festival perform works by Mozart, Dutilleux, and Francaix.
The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra performs world premieres by Derek Bermel and Anthony DiLorenzo, with additional works by Mendelssohn and Vaughan Williams.
Musicians from the Round Top Music Festival perform music by Revueltas, Harberg, and Dvořák.
The Texas Music Festival Orchestra puts on an epic performance of Mahler's Third Symphony.
The St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society performs music by Beethoven, Schubert, Previn, and Brahms.
KINETIC performs English string music by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten, and Anna Clyne.
Aperio, Music of the Americas performs music inspired by Central and South American culture.
Da Camera presents guitarist Jason Vieaux with classical and contemporary works by composers from around the world.
MUSIQA collaborates with Loop38 on a concert featuring works by Karim Al-Zand, Pierre Jalbert, and Anthony Brandt.
Ars Lyrica performs works from the collection of eighteenth century Berlin socialite Sara Levy, with pieces by C.P.E. and W.F. Bach and Telemann.
Chamber Music Houston features the Modigliani Quartet with works by Mozart, Saint-Saëns, and Mendelssohn.
The St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society puts on chamber works by Bloch, Poulenc, Duruflé, and others.
The Apollo Chamber Players present works by Glass, Riley, and two world premieres by Chitravina N. Ravikiran.
Mercury Chamber Orchestra performs music from Rameau's Les Indes Galantes and works by Couperin and Marais.
The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra presents the final concert of its 2005-2006 inaugural season, with works by Debussy, Haydn, Bermel, and more, with guest soloist Timothy Jones!
The St. Lawrence String Quartet performs works by Hadyn, Adams, and Beethoven in a concert hosted by Da Camera.
KINETIC performs works by Rautavaara, Mustonen, and Bartok, with a unique take on the latter's Romanian Folk Dances.
MUSIQA performs contemporary works by local composers and international composers in this concert from 2004.
Ars Lyrica Houston performs music from their 2017 season opener: Sweet Philomena, with works by Handel, Mozart, CPE Bach, and more.
The Houston Chamber Choir performs their 2016 Christmas at the Villa concert, with holiday music old and new!
Mercury Chamber Orchestra presents a concert of works by Vivaldi, including his Gloria.
The Texas New Music Ensemble performs a concert of world premieres by Houston-based composers.
The Emerson String Quartet, celebrating its 40th anniversary, performs music by Mozart, Beethoven, and a newly commissioned work by Mark-Anthony Turnage.
The St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society performs works inspired by folk music from the European Romani people.
MUSIQA celebrates its 10th Anniversary with a concert inspired by folk songs and Bob Dylan.
The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra performs music by Mahler, Jalbert, Guilmant, and Haydn with conductor Edwin Outwater and organist Paul Jacobs.
Aperio, Music of the Americas is the focus of this week's Encore Houston. We feature their concert from over a year ago, "New Argentinean Masters," featuring works by master of song Carlos Guastavino, a tango by Jose Bragato, contemporary works by Osvaldo Golijov, and an eclectic variety of pieces by Jorge Calandrelli with a little Piazzolla.
Music in this episode:
- CARLOS GUASTAVINO, Three Songs
- Julia Fox, soprano; Michael Zuraw, piano
- GUASTAVINO, Sonatina in G minor
- Michael Zuraw, piano
- JOSE BRAGATO, Graciela y Buenos Aires
- Daniel Saenz, cello; Brendan Kinsella, piano
- OSVALDO GOLIJOV, Mariel
- Daniel Saenz, cello; Craig Hauschildt, marimba
- GOLIJOV, Lúa descolorida
- Julia Fox, soprano; Daniel Saenz, cello; Craig Hauschildt, percussion; Michael Zuraw, piano
- JORGE CALANDRELLI, Six Pieces
- Sonya Belousova, piano
- CALANDRELLI/ASTOR PIAZZOLLA, Tango Remembrances
- Daniel Saenz, cello; Brendan Kinsella, piano
- CALANDRELLI, Concerto for Jazz Clarinet
- Ernesto Vega, clarinet; Michael Zuraw, piano
- Performance date: 9/18/2016
- Originally aired: 9/16/2017
New episodes of Encore Houston air Saturdays at 10 PM, with a repeat broadcast Sundays at 4 PM, all on Houston Public Media Classical.
The Apollo Chamber Players, MUSIQA, and Jazz Forever come together for a benefit concert for the victims of Hurricane Harvey.
The St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society presents works by Beach, Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, and Francaix.
The Texas New Music Ensemble performs works by composers from Houston and other areas of Texas.
Ars Lyrica Houston celebrates the legacy of Don Quixote with music from the 15th to 18th centuries.
On this week's Encore Houston, the Houston Chamber Choir and an orchestra of local musicians bring Bach back to life with a rousing performance of his monumental Mass in B minor. Before there were symphonies and operas, settings of the Latin Mass were the most prominent creative milestones for composers, dating back to at least the fourteenth century. And even centuries later, they are among several composers' best known works with popular settings from Mozart, Verdi, Durufle, and Britten. This mass by Bach is among his latest completed works, and is considered not only one of his greatest pieces, but among some of the greatest music in the classical canon.
- JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH, Mass in B minor
- Performance date: 4/1/2017
- Originally aired: 7/22/2017
New episodes ofEncore Houstonair Saturdays at 10 PM, with a repeat broadcast Sundays at 4 PM, all on Houston Public Media Classical.
KINETIC, the conductorless ensemble performs music from their second ever concert, with works by Bloch, Ysaye, and Ireland.
Chamber Music Houston presents Quatuor Ébène with music by Mozart, Beethoven, and Debussy.
Aperio, Music of the Americas performs contemporary works from three different concerts, with a few inspired by popular music.
Faculty musicians from the Round Top Music Festival perform works by Kodály, Janáček, and Schubert.
Soprano Julia Fox and pianist Keith Weber perform works by contemporary Texas-based composers.
Student musicians in the Texas Music Festival Orchestra perform dark works by Rachmaninoff, Webern, and Berg.
MUSIQA presents works by living composers as well as a poetry reading by Erica Funkhouser.
The St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society performs music by Halvorsen, Shostakovich, and Dvorak's Dumky Trio.
Ars Lyrica performs music of Beethoven, J.C.F. Bach, and Jean-Marie Leclair with special guest soloists.
Mercury performs works by Haydn, Mozart, and Rameau with guest soloist Alexander Weimann.
KINETIC presents early music from Mendelssohn and Barber, a world premiere by Alexandra T. Bryant, and more!
The Apollo Chamber Players perform music about creation and existence from Walczak, Milhaud, and Haydn.
Context presents music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, embodying the new trends in music as Romanticism began to fade.
Musicians from the St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society perform three works for string octet.
Student musicians from the Round Top Music Festival perform powerhouses of the French orchestral repertoire.
The Houston Chamber Choir and organist Ken Cowan perform the complete choral works of French composer Maurice Duruflé.
The Apollo Chamber Players and Erberk Eryilmaz take us on an international musical journey in Europe and the Middle East.
MUSIQA performs contemporary music both from composers far away and from right here in Houston.
Richard Savino and his chamber ensemble El Mundo present a concert of Christmas works from Italy, Spain, and Latin America!
Ars Lyrica Houston and mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton perform music inspired by pursuit, love, and even madness.
The River Oaks Chamber Orchestra presents their conductorless concert from 2016, with some familiar classics and a world premiere!
The Jerusalem Quartet presents music from three different centuries in a diverse concert at Rice University, with works by Haydn, Prokofiev, Dvorak, and maybe even a surprise at the end!
The string orchestra KINETIC presents music about darkness and light in their season opening concert of 2016, featuring guest soprano Alexandra Smither, and a world premiere by Karim Al-Zand.
The premiere episode of Encore Houston, featuring Mercury Chamber Orchestra performing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with guest soloists and members of the Houston Symphony Chorus.