STILL WE TEND
September 25-26, 2021
Houston Botanic Garden

Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté: “Tegere Tulon”

IGNOBLE DANCES
October 1-2, 2021
Online films

Karim Al-Zand: “Ignoble Dances”

KAZOKU QUARTET
October 14, 2021
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Rob Smith “Morse Code Pop”
Ryo Noda: “Mai”
Junichi Murata: “Rotte No. 2 & No. 1”
Anthony Brandt: “Full Circle”
Barry Cockroft: “Beat Me!”
Joel Love: “Mark Flood Miniatures”
Tiran Hamasyan: “Etude No. 1”

LIVEWIRE
January 21-22, 2022
MATCH

Carlos Simon: “Loop for String Trio”
Anthony Brandt: “LiveWire”
Pierre Jalbert: “Piano Quintet”
Lei Liang: “Gobi Gloria”

CABARET OF SHADOWS
March 5-6, 2022
MATCH

Laura Schwendinger: “Cabaret of Shadows”

MUSIQA’S 20th ANNIVERSARY DOUBLE FEATURE
April 30, 2022
MATCH

Anthony Brandt, Karim Al-Zand, Pierre Jalbert, Rob Smith and Marcus Maroney: “Musiqa Miniatures”
Kurt Stallman: “Lumina II”
Rob Smith: “Sprint”
Shih-Hui Chen: “Twice Removed”
Karim Al-Zand: “Stomping Grounds”
Marcus Maroney: “Velvet”
Trevor Weston: “Stars”

MUSIQALAB
May 16, 2022
Madison High School

Compositions by Madison HS students
Betzaida Granados-Rogel: “Flying Nightingale”
Jayla Edgar: “A Sibling Rivalry”
Reyna Benitez: “Red Door”
Dennis Medrano: “Don’t Give Up”
Cierra Miller: “Cierra’s Piece”
Axsel Jandres: “Untitled”

MUSIQA’S SIGHT & SONIC HOUSTON PARADE
May 24-27, 2022
Online films

Karim Al-Zand: “Mbira Song”
Anthony Brandt: “LiveWire Movement 1”
Pierre Jalbert: “Pulse”
Marcus Maroney: “Velvet”

AMOAKO BOAFO: SOUL OF BLACK FOLKS
June 30, 2022
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Mokale Koapeng: “Komeng”
Jlin Patton: “Little Black Book”
Kyle Rivera: “Merge for string trio”
Shelley Washington: “Middleground for string quartet”
Trevor Weston: “Juba”

STARS
November 14 – 29, 2020
Online film

Trevor Weston: “Stars”

INSIDE / OUT
February 13 – 28, 2021
Online films

Andrew Norman: “An Index Of Particular Strokes”
Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté: “Tegere Tulon”

WILD LIFE
April 15, 2021
Online film with the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Nicky Sohn: “Burning”
Karl Blench: “Axiom”

MUSIQALAB
July 1, 2021
Online film for with the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Compositions by Sharpstown High School students enrolled in the MusiqaLab Course for Young Composers
Cynthia Yax: “Seaside” & “Siren’s Lullaby”
Andres Flores: “Somber” & “Rejoice”

CAPRICCIO
July 2, 2021
Online film by T Lavois Thiebaud

Karim Al-Zand: “Capriccio #1 and #6”

PRELUDES @ PLAY
September 28, 2019
First Congregational Church of Houston

Tsoof Baras: “The Angels are Coming”
Evan Chambers: “Love Dogs”
Aftab Darvishi: “Nesyan”
Ying Chen Kao: “530.623”
James MacMillan: “Memento”
Jessie Montgomery: “Strum”
Karalyn Schubring: “Blossom”

FRANCOSONIC
October 18, 2019
MATCH

Raphaèle Biston: “Repercussions”
Guillaume Connesson: “Songs of Agartha”
Marc-André Dalvabie: “Palimpseste” for sextet
Betsy Jolas: “Trio sopra ‘et sola facta'”
Luis Naon: “Alto Voltango”

NARI WARD: WE THE PEOPLE
November 14, 2019
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Joseph Pereira: “Aldebaran”
Eleanor Alberga: “Ride Through”
Olly Wilson: “Echoes”
Kinen Azmeh: “It’s About Time”
Sky McKlay: “The Braid”

FREE/FLOW
January 11 & 12, 2020
MATCH

Christopher Cerrone: “High Windows”
Pierre Jalbert: “Autumn Rhapsody” and “Elegy”
Jessie Montgomery: “Starburst” and “Strum”
François Rabbath: “Poucha-das”

WILL BOONE: THE HIGHWAY HEX
January 30, 2020
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Karen Tanaka: “Shibuya Tokyo”
Nina C. Young: “Ainsi soit-il”
Gabriel Bolaños: “Greenlandic”
Karola Obermueller: “xs”
Michael Ippolito: “String Quartet No. 3”
Max Vinetz: “Stars on the Ground”

KASSANDRA / THE LEADER
February 23 & 29, 2020
Opera In The Heights

Anthony Brandt: “Kassandra”
Karim Al-Zand: “The Leader”

JULYDOSCOPE
July 21, 2018
Discovery Green

Russell Peck: “Lift-Off”
Bob Becker: “New Thaan”
Ianis Xennakis: “Ohko”

ORIGIN STORIES
October 6, 2018
Duncan Recital Hall

Anthony Brandt: “Songs from the Source”
Pierre Jalbert: “Crossings”
Tania Leon: “A La Par”
Barbara White: “Learning To See”

BETWEEN THE LINES
November 2, 2018
First Congregational Church of Houston

Jennifer Higdon: “Bop”
David Ludwig: “Josquin Microludes”
Ryo Noda: “Mai”
Kyle Kindred: “Bag of Caterpillars”
Joel Love: “In Memoriam”
Catherine Likhuta: “Hard to Argue”

NICOLAS MOUFARREGE: RECOGNIZE MY SIGN
November 15, 2018
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Michael Daughtery: “Yo Amaba a Lucy”
Matthew Hindson: “Basement Art Guru”
Bechara Al-Khoury: “Arminia”
Pierre Jalbert: “Sonatine”
Anna Clyne: “Rest These Hands”

TRACES OF BLUE
January 12, 2019
MATCH

Karim Al-Zand: “Six Bagatelles”
Annie Gosfield: “The Blue Horse Walks Along the Horizon”
Stephen Hartke: “The Blue Studio”
Loren Loiacono: “Waxing Cerulean”

CHERYL DONEGAN: GRLZ + VEILS
February 7, 2019
Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston

Nina Young: “Pocket Concerto”
Michele Rusconi: “Urartu Full Circle”
Katherine Hoover: “Kokopelli”
Augusta Read Thomas: “Euterpe’s Caprice”
Olga Neuwirth: “Torsion”

REEL FORCES
February 22, 2019
MATCH

Florent Ghys: “Etude for 11 Faces”
Marcus Maroney: “Scherzo (How a Mosquito Operates”
Aleksandra Vrebalov: “Beyond Zero” (Bill Morrison: filmmaker)

COUNTING UP
March 22, 2019
First Congregational Church Houston

Nina Shekhar: “Cajón”
Libby Larsen: “Corker”
Emma Wine: “Two Thoughts in Darkness”
Sebastian Currier: “Verge”
Carolina Heredia: “Lus in Bello”
Xi Wang: “Silhouette”

MASS OBSERVATION
April 13, 2019
St. Philip Presbyterian

Karim Al-Zand: “A Measure In Trance”
Marcus Maroney: “Im Grase”
Augusta Read Thomas: “Resounding Earth”
Tarik O’Regan: “Mass Observation”

STONEWALL 50
May 9, 2019
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

LJ White: “Big Fish”
David T. Little: “Raw Power”
Marcus Maroney: “Saxophone Quartet”
Niko Yamamoto: “dis.integrations”, “a midfield glance”

HARVEY RELIEF CONCERT
September 8, 2017
MATCH

Astor Piazzolla: “Histoire du Tango” (excerpt)
Anthony Brandt: “Full Circle, II”
Caryl Florio: “Quartette”
Joel Love: “Mark Flood Quartet, IV. Lullaby”
Harold Arlen: “Over the Rainbow”

BODIES IN MOTION
September 23, 2017
Zilkha Hall

Marcus Maroney: “Three Pieces for String Quartet”
Augusta Read Thomas: “Silent Moon”
Andrew Bird: “Stalemate”
Lera Auerbach: “Lonely Suite (Ballet for a Lonely Violinist)”
Pierre Jalbert: “String Theory”

ANNABETH ROSEN: FIRED, BROKEN, GATHERED, HEAPED
November 9, 2017
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Nebojsa Zivkovic: “Trio per Uno”
Mary-Ellen Childs: “Three”
Frederic Rzewski: “To the Earth”
George Crumb: “An Idyll for the Misbegotten”
Joel Love: “In the Gloaming”

LOOKING BACK IN TIME
January 13, 2018
MATCH

Karim Al-Zand: “Visions from Another World”
Anthony Brandt: “Maternity”
Pierre Jalbert: “Transcendental Windows”

CHRISTOPHER KNOWLES: IN A WORD
February 8, 2018
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Nico Muhly: “Diacritical Marks”
Michael Nyman: “String Quartet No. 2”

MINIMAL/LYRICAL
February 16, 2018
First Congregational Church of Houston

Nico Muhly: “Diacritical Marks”
Michael Nyman: “String Quartet No. 2”
Lera Auerbach: “Lonely Suite (Ballet for a Lonely Violinist)”

THE MOVING IMAGE
March 3, 2018
MATCH

Michael van der Aa: “Transit”
Anna Clyne: “Steelworks”
Reena Esmail: “Perhaps”
Michael Gandolfi: “History of the World in Seven Acts”
Timothy Roy: “Southern Specter”

PLAYING HAVOC
April 13-14, 2018
MATCH

Kate Soper: “Voices from the Killing Jar”

RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW: SAN ANTONIO
May 17, 2018
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Robert X. Rodriguez: “Meta4”
Suzanne Farrin: “Time is a Cage”
Ethan Wickman: “Respite”
Theo Chandler: “Scarred Landscape”

RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW: VOL. 2
September 15, 2016
CAMH

Hilary Purrington: “Two Movements for String Quartet”
Angelique Poteat: “Water Pastel”
Gity Razaz: “Shadow Lines”
Alexandra Bryant: “Lady Isabelle Was That Kind of Woman”

SUSTAINED BY BREATH AND LINE
October 1, 2016
MATCH

Zack Browning: “Funk Assault”
Robert Paterson: “Tongue and Groove”
James Primosch: “Short Stories”
David Ludwig: “Josquin Microludes”
Per Norgard: “Re-Percussion”
Anthony Brandt: “Full Circle”

THE WHITE ALBUM
January 7, 2017
Zilkha Hall

Laura Schwendinger: “Wet Ink”
David Rakowski: “Natura Morta”
Pierre Jalbert: “Piano Trio No. 2”
Mark Kilstofte: “The White Album”

ANGEL OTERO: EVERYTHING AND NOTHING
February 9, 2017
CAMH

Carlos Carilla-Cotto: “Como si fuera la primavera”
Robert Sierra: “Bong-O”
Marcus Maroney: “Four Preludes for Two Clarinets”
William Ortiz-Alvarado: “Soneo de la 22”
Robert Sierra: “Tres Pensamientos”
Javier Alvarez: “Temazcal”

AMERICAN TRIOS!
March 11, 2017
MATCH

Dan Visconti: “Lonesome Roads”
John Harbison: “Twilight Music”
Ellen Taafe Zwilich: “Piano Trio”
Marcus Maroney: “Horn Trio”

LIGHT, LAND, AND SEA
April 8, 2017
MATCH

Fred Lerdahl: “Three Diatonic Studies”
Kaija Saariaho: “Fall”
Timothy Roy: “Chatterbox”
Karim Al-Zand: “Studies in Nature”
Andrew Norman: “Light Screens”

ATLAS, PLURAL, MONUMENTAL
May 4, 2017
CAMH

Chapman Welch: “Along the Bond Line”
Timothy Roy: “The Many Become One”

NEW MUSIC FROM NEAR AND FAR PART 1
October 10, 2015
MATCH

Anna Clyne: “Rest These Hands”
Marcus Maroney: “Chameleon I”
Anthony Brandt: “Four Score”
Karim Al-Zand: “Swimmy”
Pierre Jalbert: “Trio for clarinet, violin and piano”
Carl Schimmel: “Roadshow for Thora”

NEW MUSIC FROM NEAR AND FAR PART 2
January 9, 2016
MATCH

David Crockett: “Wet Ink”
David Crumb: “Mood Sequence”
Sean Friar: “Scale 9”
Peter Lieberson: “Raising the Gaze”
Dan Welcher: “Remembrance in Black and White”
Stacy Garrop: “Remnants of Nine”

ISLAND TIME
February 11, 2016
CAMH

David Dzubay: “Threnody”
Nicola Le Fanu: “Soliloquy”
Hilary Tann: “Duo”
Nina C. Young: “Meditation”
Joan Tower: “Island Prelude”

JENNIE C. JONES: COMPILATION
March 10, 2016
CAMH

Valerie Coleman: “Danza de la Mariposa”
Jennie C. Jones: “From the Low”
Alexandra Gardner: “Electric Blue Pantsuit”
Jennie C. Jones: “Piccolo Largo”
Eve Belgarian: “I Will Not Be Sad in This World”
Jennie C. Jones: “What a Little Moonlight”
Kaija Saariaho: “Lonh”

FOTOFEST
April 7, 2016
The Silos at Sawyer Yards

Marcus Maroney: “Earth Songs”

NEW MUSIC FROM NEAR AND FAR PART 3
April 9, 2016
Zilkha Hall

Marcus Maroney: “Earth Songs”
Rob Smith: “Angenieta”
Timo Andres: “I Found It By The Sea”
Hannah Lash: “Around”
Kevin Puts: “And Legions Will Rise”

MARK FLOOD: GRATEST HITS
May 5, 2016
CAMH

Michael Daugherty: “Walk the Walk”
Christian Lauba: “Jungle”
Jacob TV: “Pitch Black”
Joel Love: “Saxophone Quartet No. 2”

TIMBER
June 3, 2016
Henke & Pillot

Michael Gordon: “Timber”

RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW: HOUSTON
October 16, 2014
CAMH

George Heathco: “Turbine”
Chad Robinson: “Darkbloom”
Benjamin Krause: “Footnotes”
Caroline Shaw: “Boris Kerner”
Chapman Welch: “Ritual House”

MUSICAL AND LITERARY OFRENDA
October 28, 2014
Lawndale Art Center

Karim Al-Zand: “Cicada”
Charles Halka: “Grimmy”
Anthony Brandt: “Infinity: Based on Poetry by Rich Levy”
Pierre Jalbert: “So Is Earthly Life”
Marcus Maroney: “Herbstagg”

STEP OUT OF THE BOX
November 8, 2014
Market Square Park

Adam Beard: “Echoes”
Alex Clouse: “Search”
Joshua Zinn: “Downtown Scherzo”
Joungburn Lee: “4 Ways and 4 Signals”
Daniel Webbon: “All Together Now”
Daniel Knaggs: “Midtown Music”
Julia Wolfe: “Dark Full Ride”
William Penn: “Perpetual Motion”
Kati Agocs: “Hymn”
Steve Macket: “Is It Time”
Charles Halka: “Tsakapa Chatashu”
Steve Reich: “New York Counterpoint”

MYTHS AND LEGENDS
January 10, 2015
Zilkha Hall

Elena Kats-Chernin: “Fast Blue Village”
Pierre Jalbert: “String Quartet No. 4”
Karim Al-Zand: “Cinderella”
Anthony Brandt: “Ulysses, Home”

DOUBLE LIFE
February 26. 2015
CAMH

Lei Liang: “Trans”
Jorg Widmann, “Fantasie”
Saed Haddad: “Le Contredesir”
Charles Halka: “Liaisons”

TONAL IMPACT
April 24 & 25, 2015
Zilkha Hall

John Adams, “Motorcycle for Moses”
Philippe Manoury, “Ultima”
Pierre Jalbert, “Harvest”
Jonathan Kinsey: “a CrB (from Dark Matter)”
Marcus Maroney, “Two Shades of Gay”

PRETTY/DIRTY
May 7, 2015
CAMH

Sean Friar: “Two Solitudes”
Anna Weesner: “Sudden, Unbidden”
Philippe Hersant: “Bamyan”
Laura Schwedinger: “Rumor”
Hannah Lash: “Three Shades, Without Angles”

WHAT TIME IS IT?
September 28, 2013
Market Square Clock Tower

Anthony Brandt & Chapman Welch: “What Time Is It?”

MUSIC OUTSIDE THE LINES
November 7, 2013
CAMH

Rob Smith: “Breaking Point”
Frederik Andersson: “not everything which happens is in the newspaper”
Blake Wilkins: “Amidst These Things”
Gyorgy Ligeti: “Continuum”

TIME TRAVEL
November 8, 2013
Market Square Park

Louis Andriessen: “Hout”
John Corigliano: “Three Irish Folksong Settings”
Missy Mazzoli: “Magic with Everyday Objects”
Michael van der Aa: “And How Are We Today?”
Bill Ryan: “Blurred”
Rob Smith: “Dance Mix”

FROZEN TIME
January 11, 2014
Asia Society

Elena Firsova: “Frozen Time, op.60”
Karim Al-Zand: “Orange Torches Against The Rain”
Lei Liang: “Trio for Cello, Piano and Percussion”
Marcus Maroney: “Images”

IN C: OUTSIDE THE LINES
January 30, 2014
CAMH

Terry Riley: “In C”

STRINGS OUTSIDE THE LINES
February 27, 2014
CAMH

Elliot Carter: “Figment for Solo Bass”
Paul Chihara: “Duo Concertante for Violin and Viola”
Jann Jaffrennou: “Avastiyan”
Fred Lerdahl: “Waltzes”

TIME IN MOTION
March 22, 2014
Zilkha Hall

Guillaume Connesson: “Techno-Parade”
Marc-Andre Dalbavie: “Quatour”
Marc Mellits: “Spin”
Mason Bates: “The Life of Birds”
Pierre Jalbert: “Harvest”

DEEP SKY OBJECTS
September 22, 2012
Zilkha Hall

Lera Auerbach: “Twenty-Four Preludes for Violin and Piano”
Pierre Jalbert: “Secret Alchemy”
Sebastian Currier: “Deep Sky Objects”
Sebastian Currier: “Divided and Scattered”

SURVEYS FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
October 4, 2012
CAMH

Mokale Koapeng: “Komeng”
John Joubert: “String Quartet No. 2 Op. 91”
Kevin Volans: “White Man Sleeps”

RADICAL PRESENCE
December 8, 2012
CAMH / Progressive Amateur Boxing Association

Shaun “El Conquistador” Leonardo: “The Arena”

PERCUSSIVE ILLUSIONS
January 12, 2013
Zilkha Hall

Lukas Ligeti: “Pattern Transformation”
John Cage: “Third Construction”
Anthony Brandt: “My Best Eleven”
Thierry De Mey: “Table Music”
Marcus Maroney: “Pantheon”

DEEP SKY OBJECTS
February 13, 2013
Space Center Houston

Sebastian Currier: “Deep Sky Objects”

WORD PLAY
April 6, 2013
Zilkha Hall

Roshanne Etezady: “Mother of Pearl”
Karim Al-Zand: “Quelques Fleurs”
Jacob TV: “Garden of Love”
Rob Smith: “Las Pilas”
Anthony Brandt: “Sphinx”

PARALLEL PRACTICES
April 25, 2013
CAMH

Pauline Oliveros: “Bye Bye Butterfly”
Arvo Part: “Spiegel im Spiegel”
John Tavener: “Akhmatova Songs for Soprano and Cello”
Elena Kats-Chernin: “Chamber of Horrors”
Morton Feldman: “Three Voices”

The first decade