The Houston Saengerbund is pleased to announce that the Houston Saengerbund Men’s Chorus will perform under the direction of their vibrant Music Director Mary Kay Buehler at the prestigious Round Top Music Festival on Saturday, June 27, 2015. Their performance from 6:45 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. leads up to the Texas Festival Orchestra performance under the baton of conductor Perry So, a rising star in the musical community. The program that evening consists of the Tannhaeuser Overture and Bacchanale (1861) by Richard Wagner, and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 (1901-02). Get your tickets now by clicking here.
The Round Top Music Festival Runs from June 6 to July 11, 2015. After challenging auditions, Round Top Festival Institute selected 92 talented young artists from over 600 applicants to reside for six weeks during the summer and study with distinguished international faculty. They will perform as the Texas Festival Orchestra while in residence, beginning with the opening concert on Saturday, June 6. The educational program, one of the best of its kind, includes private lessons, master classes, workshops, chamber music coaching, orchestra sectionals and orchestra rehearsals conducted by worldwide celebrated conductors.
The chamber and orchestral repertoire includes works by composers ranging from Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz and Tchaikovsky to Shostakovich, Martinu, Rachmaninoff, Mahler, Gershwin, Bernstein and many others. Conductors include Dietrich Paredes from Venezuela, Eiji Oue from Japan, Mariusz Smolij from Poland, Perry So from China, Christian Arming from Austria, Vladimir Kulenovich from Serbia, Linus Lerner from Brazil, Ransom Wilson and Emilio Colon from the United States.
Featured soloists include James Dick, piano; Regis Pasquier and Stefan Milenkovich, violins; Carol Wincenc, flute; Pavel Vinnitsky, clarinet; Celil Refik Kaya, guitar; James Nyoraku Schlefer, shakuhachi; Yoko Reikano Kimura, koto; Pedro Diaz, English horn and Ray Riccomini, trumpet.
The faculty members, with the participation of the young artists, perform chamber music concerts.
The Round Top Music Festival offers a free concert geared especially for children on Tuesday, June 16 at 11:00 am. The annual crowd-pleasing “Patriotic Concert” is presented this year on Sunday, July 5 at 3:00 pm.
Concerts are performed in the strikingly beautiful and acoustically perfect Festival Concert Hall (air conditioned, 1,000 seats) and in the charming Edythe Bates Old Chapel.
Tickets are available online. Ticket prices range from adults: $25-$35; students: $10-$15. Day passes offering reduced rates are also available. (Tickets and day passes are non-refundable, no exchanges. All sales final.) Free parking. Picnic areas. Drinks available.
Master classes, orchestra rehearsals and in-house events are open to the public.