by musiqaadmin | Mar 2, 2017 | News
Houston Public Media has partnered with Musiqa and other local concert organizations to produce Encore Houston. Encore is a weekly local concert music program that celebrates Houston’s vibrant performance music community. Episode 9 of Encore Houston features...
by musiqaadmin | Mar 2, 2017 | News
Marcus Karl Maroney is currently Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music and a member of Musiqa’s Artistic Board. He studied composition and horn at The University of Texas at Austin (B.M.) and Yale School of Music (M.M.,...
by musiqaadmin | Mar 1, 2017 | News
Musiqa will perform Twilight Music by composer John Harbison, as a part of American Trios!, March 11, the Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston. Program Note Twilight Music (1985) was written directly after my first String Quartet: both pieces move toward an...
by musiqaadmin | Mar 1, 2017 | News
Musiqa will perform Lonesome Roads by composer Dan Visconti, as a part of American Trios!, March 11, the Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston. Program Note Lonesome Roads was inspired by memories of long, cross-country car trips and the rumbling, uneven grooves...
by musiqaadmin | Jan 3, 2017 | News
Musiqa will perform The White Album by composer Mark Kilstofte, as a part of The White Album, January 7, at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Zilkha Hall. Program Notes I began to assemble the poems of The White Album years ago during a residency at Copland...
by musiqaadmin | Jan 2, 2017 | News
Musiqa will perform Piano Trio No. 2 by Musiqa composer Pierre Jalbert, as a part of The White Album, January 7, the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Zilkha Hall. Program Note My second piano trio was written for the Morgenstern Trio (from Germany) for the...
by musiqaadmin | Jan 2, 2017 | News
Musiqa will perform Natura Morta by New England-based composer David Rakowski, as a part of The White Album, January 7, the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Zilkha Hall. Program Note Natura Morta (2015) was the first piece I wrote after a long and trying bout...