Unbound
Musiqa's 25th Season
For 25 years, Musiqa has believed the music of right now is worth everything.
The 2026–27 season
Unbound
Houston is the most diverse city in America — a place where the whole world has arrived and continues to arrive. A city reckoning with its own fragility: the climate, the shifting ground, the rising water. Musiqa holds this mirror — and has for 25 years — through the collision of music plus every other art form. Houston is unbound, and Musiqa reflects that.
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Musiqa opens the season alongside WindSync at Miller Outdoor Theatre, pairing experimental films with music by Jacob TV, Florent Ghys, Marcus Maroney and Timothy Roy. Free admission, with covered seating available by reservation.
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Three newly commissioned composers and a poet. World premiere clarinet quartets by Rolando Gomez, Jaylin Vinson and Justin Weiss, paired with original poetry through Musiqa's long-standing partnership with Inprint.
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Houston-based Brazilian cellist Caio Diniz commissions new works weaving his roots in Brazilian folk tradition with contemporary chamber voices.
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An immersive installation, film series and climate conversation. Suspended nautical sculptures and foghorn works respond to your touch, translating Gulf Coast land loss into sound — culminating in a 100-person foghorn choir on Galveston Bay. Created with artist Steve Parker.
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An evening anchored by Karim Al-Zand's Lines in Motion, a piano trio born from a series of woodcuts, alongside a work by Marcus Maroney.
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Musiqa’s 25th anniversary double bill of new chamber operas. Iphigenia, by Anthony Brandt and librettist Neena Beber, reimagines a Greek myth in a contemporary setting; Follow the Sky, by Pierre Jalbert and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann, explores displacement and the meaning of home.
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Who we are
Musiqa is Houston's creative convergence point for new music — bringing together artists, ideas, and disciplines, from dance and theater to neuroscience and visual art, to create work that reflects the world around us.
Mission + History → Education programs → Hobby Center residency → MusiqaLab →