Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival

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• Welcome to TMF 2024!

  For over three decades, the Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival has brought Classical music’s rising stars to Houston for intensive study and exceptional performance. As Houston’s premier summer music festival and school, we invite you to join us throughout June for stellar performances by these young musicians, our faculty artists, guest performers, and world-renowned conductors and soloists. 

  Alan Austin
  TMF General and Artistic Director

  

• Schedule

  Tuesday, June 4 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall
  Faculty Chamber Music I: Formosa Quartet and Faculty

  Thursday, June 6 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall
  Sharon Ley Lietzow Piano Series
  Vadym Kholodenko Recital
       Handel: Chaconne; Beethoven: Sonata Op. 111
       Prokofiev: Sonata No. 8

  Friday, June 7 | 7:30 p.m. in the Moores Opera House
  Festival Orchestra I with Festival Chorus
  Franz Anton Krager, conductor
  Paulo Gomez, choral conductor
  Vadym Kholodenko, piano soloist
  Krista Renée Pape, soprano; Sarah Dyer, mezzo-soprano; Zachary Averyt, tenor; Mark Diamond, bass
       Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919); Strauss: Burleske for Piano and Orchestra
       Bruckner: Psalm 146 

  Saturday, June 8 | 5:00 p.m. at Jones Hall - FREE, open to general public
  Festival Orchestra @ League of American Orchestra Conference
  Franz Anton Krager, conductor
  Vadym Kholodenko, piano soloist
       Strauss: Burleske for Piano and Orchestra; Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919)
  

  Sunday, June 9 | 2 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall - FREE
  Mitchell-Hogg Young Artist Competition Finals

  Tuesday, June 11 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall
  Faculty Chamber Music II

  Wednesday, June 12 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall - FREE
  College Piano Institute Chamber Music Concert 

  Tursday, June 13 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall
  Sharon Ley Lietzow Piano Series 
  Kenny Broberg Recital
       Franck/Bauer: Prelude, Fugue, et Variation, Op. 18; Mozart: Piano Sonata in D major, K.311
       Medtner: Two Skazki, Op. 48; Chopin: Polonaise Fantasie, Op. 61 
       Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5

  Friday, June 14 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall - FREE
  Student Chamber Music
  Orchestral and Piano Participants perform

  Saturday, June 15 | 2:00 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall - FREE
  College Piano Institute Final Performance

  Saturday, June 15 | 7:30 p.m. in the Moores Opera House
  Festival Orchestra II
  Carl St. Clair, conductor
       Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2; Strauss: Ein Heldenleben 

  Tuesday, June 18 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall
  Faculty Chamber Music III

  Thursday, June 20 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall
  Sharon Ley Lietzow Piano Series 
  William Wolfram Recital
       Liszt: Sonata in B minor; Schumann: Fantasie

  Friday, June 21  
      • 3 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall - FREE
         Chamber Music Marathon

      • 7:30 p.m. in the Moores Opera House - FREE
         Jazz Institute Middle School and High School Orchestras
         Noe Marmolejo, director

      • 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall - FREE
         Honors Student Chamber Music

  Saturday, June 22 | 5:00 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall - FREE
  Pre-College Piano Institute Pop Showcase

  Saturday, June 22 | 7:30 p.m. in the Moores Opera House
  Festival Orchestra III
  Hans Graf, conductor
  2024 Mitchell – Hogg Competition Winner, soloist
       Ravel: Le barq sur l’ocean; Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 

  Sunday, June 23 | 12:00 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall - FREE
  Pre-College Piano Institute Final Recital

   

  Box Office Telephone: 713-743-3388 

  Festival Contact: Alan Austin, General and Artistic Director
  phone: 713-743-3167
  email: tmf@uh.edu 

• Our 2024 Artists

  Guest Artists

  • Vadym Kholodenko, piano, McGovern Distinguished Artist
  • Kenny Broberg, piano
  • William Wolfram, piano
  • Formosa Quartet
  • Krista Renée Pape, soprano
  • Sarah Dyer, mezzo-soprano
  • Zachary Averyt, tenor
  • Mark Diamond, bass 

  Conductors

  • Hans Graf
  • Franz Anton Krager
  • Carl St. Clair

  2024 Faculty

  2024 Fellows

  TMF Alumni

• Cynthia Woods Mitchell-Ima Hogg Competition

  The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition was founded at the inception of the Texas Music Festival in 1990 by George and Cynthia Mitchell to provide a competition experience for members of the Festival Orchestra. Today, the George and Cynthia Mitchell Foundation continues this generous legacy, joined by the Houston Symphony. This merged collaboration joins the names of two of Houston’s most prominent cultural benefactors and honors their contributions to the arts in our city.