Da Camera Society of Texas
Transformative Musical Experiences
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DACAMERA Concert and Education Season
DACAMERA is internationally recognized as a leading producer and presenter of chamber music and jazz. Presenting an annual subscription series in Houston’s Downtown Theater District and at The Menil Collection, DACAMERA brings the world’s leading artists to Houston. In 2021, DACAMERA expanded with the inaugural Houston SUMMERJAZZ, and in 2020-21, received critical acclaim for a streaming series “that stands apart from the virtual crowd” (The New Yorker). Under the artistic direction of pianist Sarah Rothenberg since 1994, DACAMERA programs create connections among musical genres, art forms, and ideas; between people and places; between the past and the present. DACAMERA’s Music and the Literary Imagination series, was presented at Lincoln Center, with subsequent performances at The Kennedy Center, Bard Summerscape, and in Amsterdam, London, and across the U.S. DACAMERA’s Education and Community Initiatives bring young professional musicians into classrooms for music integrated lessons
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
DACAMERA’s goals include connecting music to other art forms; expanding the awareness of American music through the presentation of jazz and the commissioning of new compositions; and developing partnerships with a wide range of cultural institutions locally, nationally and internationally.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Each season, DACAMERA’s artist roster includes over 60 musicians, representing distinguished performers from around the world and outstanding musicians based in Houston, who perform at the Wortham Theater Center, the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts and The Menil Collection in a subscription series of curated programs. Enjoying a 34-year partnership with The Menil Collection, DACAMERA’s concerts at the museum feature special programs created for the exhibits, free family events and community residency activities. As a member of Theater District Houston, DACAMERA is recognized, along with the Houston Symphony, Houston Ballet and Houston Grand Opera, as one of the city’s major performing arts organizations.
DACAMERA was invited to present Marcel Proust’s Paris, the first of its Music and the Literary Imagination programs created by Sarah Rothenberg, at New York’s Great Performers at Lincoln Center series in 1995; the success resulted in a Lincoln Center series for the next four years, as well as the co-commissioning of Moondrunk, a chamber music/dance theater piece which was hailed in New York as “the birth of a new genre.” DACAMERA programs have also traveled to Washington’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, London’s Barbican Centre and to other prestigious concert series and festivals in the U.S., Mexico and Europe. DACAMERA’s most recent production, A Proust Sonata, had its premiere in 2016 at Houston’s Wortham Theater Center and its New York premiere in 2018. In 2014, DACAMERA launched the Jason Moran Homecoming Residency, with the acclaimed Houston-native jazz pianist and composer, which included the world premiere of The Rauschenberg Project: Holed Up.
2015 saw the release of two major recordings: DACAMERA’s unique Music for Rothko Chapel program featuring Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel and works of Satie and John Cage, on the prestigious ECM label; and an all-Kaija Saariaho disc on Ondine featuring the DACAMERA-commissioned Sombre. Previous recordings include Heartsounds: The Chamber Music of George Tsontakis on Koch and chamber works by Charles Wuorinen, including the DACAMERA-commissioned Ashberyana, on Naxos. Another DACAMERA commission, Tobias Picker’s Quintet, performed by Sarah Rothenberg and the Brentano String Quartet, appears on the 2014 CD Invisible Lilacs on Tzadik.
In 2009, DACAMERA launched the Young Artist Program, a professional development program for instrumentalists, singers and composers. Providing career-expanding experiences and training to the next generation of artists, the Young Artist Program encourages them to advocate for music in the community throughout their careers. DACAMERA Young Artists form the core artist-teachers who lead DACAMERA’s innovative Music Encounters in classrooms throughout Houston.
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What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
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Da Camera Society of Texas
Board of directorsas of 04/25/2022
Ms. Heidi Gerger
Laura Buss Sayavedra
John R. Arensdorf
Collin J. Cox
Paul A. Ehrsam
Heidi Gerger
Chinhui Juhn Allen
Priscilla Robin Angly
Nancy Shelton Bratic
Dr. Robert J. Card
Dr. Mark J. Dannenbaum
Dr. Garvin H. Davis
Elaine Finger
Beatrice Graham
Claudia J. Hatcher
Micheal J. Helm
Anna Holliday
Dr. Garfield Johnson
Paul Landen
Robert C. Leslie
Marian Lloyd
Stephen A. Massad
J. Denmon Sigler
Angela Tellez
Tym Tombar
Salle Vaughn
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