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 episodes of its film series Sight & Sonic Houston Parade with live music by Marcus Maroney, Florent Ghys 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 →