When conductor Gustavo Dudamel’s international tours are disrupted by deadly protests across his native Venezuela, he faces the challenge of a lifetime. Join us for a special screening of this documentary and a Q&A with director Ted Braun.
Experience great artistry as students from the Conservatory of Music perform solo and chamber works in this weekly recital series. This performance will be livestreamed.
Experience the talent and creativity of Colburn’s distinguished faculty artists as they perform their own curated performances with friends and students. This concert features works by Shostakovich, Telemann, Krenek, and more. This performance will be livestreamed.
Music Academy students show off their talents in this intimate recital series featuring a delightful mix of repertoire. This performance will be livestreamed.
Karina Gonzalez and Harper Watters, leading dancers with Houston Ballet, join Conservatory of Music musicians for an evening of choreography by Houston Ballet Artistic Director Stanton Welch and Colburn Dance Dean Silas Farley. The program will include a special segment focused on the creative process behind Farley’s Rococo Variations, Op. 33, which is set to Tchaikovsky’s virtuoso cello score. This performance will be livestreamed.
Steel pannist Andy Akiho is an innovative, Grammy-nominated composer known for his boundary-pushing music. He joins forces with the Colburn Contemporary Ensemble, directed by Ted Atkatz, for a concert of his own works. This performance will be livestreamed.
Visit the Colburn Café on November 12 to be transported back in time to 18th-century Germany, with a free performance by the Colburn Conservatory Baroque Ensemble. For one day only, the Ensemble will become the Colburn Conservatory Collegium Musicum, presenting a series of works by Johann Sebastian Bach and recreating his famous performances with the Leipzig Collegium Musicum in the Café Zimmerman.
Lauded as “one of the most charismatic, innovative, and engaging performers of his generation,” cellist and first prize Sphinx Competition winner Thomas Mesa is an in-demand soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and educator. This performance will be livestreamed.
Talented ensembles from the Conservatory of Music present programs of beloved chamber works.
Experience the talent and creativity of Colburn’s distinguished faculty artists as they perform their own curated performances with friends and students. This concert features works by Shostakovich, Telemann, Krenek, and more.
A concert of newly discovered music by Jewish composers whose careers and lives were disrupted or destroyed during the Holocaust. Curated by Adam Millstein and performed by musicians from the Colburn Conservatory of Music, part of the Ziering-Conlon Initiative for Recovered Voices at the Colburn School.
Enjoy coffee, treats, and conversation at our monthly pop-ups on the plaza. Learn more about events and resources on campus, catch a performance, and meet others in the Colburn community.
Come learn more about the next steps in your child’s musical journey in the Colburn Community School of Performing Arts and the Trudl Zipper Dance Institute. Watch presentations and performances from various programs for young students including Group Piano, Dance, Drama, Suzuki, and more!
Get a taste of the incredible talent at the Colburn School during this vibrant showcase of music. Students from the School will perform curated programs of varied work.
Led by Maxim Eshkenazy, the Community School’s chamber orchestra presents a rich program of varied work.
Led by Maxim Eshkenazy, the Community School’s sinfonietta presents a rich program of varied work.
Led by Maxim Eshkenazy, the Community School’s youth orchestra presents a rich program of varied work.
Carpathian Impressions features a blend of classical and jazz piano music based on the Carpathian Valley’s thousand-year-old musical heritage. The program introduces the diverse, heartbreaking, peaceful, and virtuosic nature of this ancient cultural treasure. On the wings of familiar melodies by Liszt, Bartók, and Kodály plus improvisations inspired by the traditions of Central Europe, Hungarian classical pianists Éva Polgár and László Borbély and jazz pianist Gábor Varga take their audiences on a sensational journey.
Clarinetist Sang Yoon Kim leads an in-depth master class with Colburn students, offering a rare glimpse into the artistic, creative, and learning processes. Sang Yoon Kim is the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra principal clarinet and a Conservatory alumnus.
This end-of-semester School Recital series showcases talented instrumentalists and vocalists from the Community School of Performing Arts.