Sarah Rothenberg

DACAMERA has announced the singers for the world premiere of 'Music for New Bodies' by Matthew Aucoin and Peter Sellars.

​​​​​​​DACAMERA, the Houston-based producer and presenter of chamber music and jazz concerts, gace announced its 2023-24 season. Highlighting the season are two world premieres, presented as part of UNSILENT SPRING, a two-day interdisciplinary exploration of our evolving human responses to the environment.

On Monday, February 27 (7:30 pm), DACAMERA, a leading presenter and producer of chamber music, jazz and interdisciplinary work, and Inprint, a nonprofit literary organization, will join forces at The Menil Collection in Houston to host a heartfelt evening of poetry and music honoring the life and work of Adam Zagajewski (1945 – 2021), internationally renowned Polish poet and visiting member of the Houston community for nearly two decades.

Highlights of the upcoming season include Osvaldo Golijov's genre-defying Falling Out of Time, performed by members of the Silk Road Ensemble; the world premiere of Houston native jazz drummer and composer Kendrick Scott's Unearthed, inspired by the Sugar Land 95; and the Texas debut of Paris's Ensemble Intercontemporain, founded by composer Pierre Boulez and conducted by Matthias Pintscher.

DACAMERA, the Houston-based presenting and producing organization, announces programming for its 2022/2023 season, encompassing both jazz and chamber music.

DACAMERA, a Houston-based presenter of chamber music and jazz concerts, announces vibraphonist Joel Ross on Saturday, April 23, 2022, at Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center. Joined by harpist Brandee Younger, Ross and his band Good Vibes will perform an assortment of songs from his two Blue Note recordings Kingmaker and Who Are You? Ross is one of the standout artists in the recent resurgence of groundbreaking jazz musicians coming out of Chicago. In 2019, Ross released his Blue Note debut KingMaker to universal critical acclaim and topped the DownBeat Critics Poll Rising Star category for vibraphone.

DACAMERA, a Houston-based presenter of chamber music and jazz concerts, will present Nathalie Joachim and the Spektral Quartet on Monday, April 25 and Tuesday, April 26, 2022, at the Menil Collection at 7:30 p.m.. Flautist and vocalist Joachim is joined by the Spektral Quartet for two performances of Fanm d’Ayiti (Women of Haiti), a celebration of some of Haiti’s most iconic female artists and an exploration of Haitian heritage.

DACAMERA, a Houston-based presenter of chamber music and jazz concerts, presents the world-renowned Elias String Quartet in Beethoven: The Complete String Quartets, a series of six concerts taking place at The Menil Collection and Zilka Hall between March 28 and April 8.

In honor of the 50th anniversary of Houston's Rothko Chapel, DACAMERA and Park Avenue Armory have commissioned boundary-breaking composer Tyshawn Sorey to create a new work inspired by the Chapel. In turn, Sorey drew inspiration from Morton Feldman's 20th-century masterpiece, Rothko Chapel, which premiered there in 1972.

DACAMERA, a Houston-based presenter of chamber music and jazz concerts, announces the world premiere of American composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey's Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) on Saturday, February 19 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, February 20 at 3 p.m.

With the unique ability to experience colors sonically (i.e. synesthesia), Sorey largely drew inspiration from the fourteen canvases created for the Chapel by 20th-century painter Mark Rothko, who also influenced the building's design. Embodying harmony, meditation and art, Monochromatic Life (Afterlife) strives to portray what it means not only to hear music, but also to experience it.

In honor of the 50th anniversary of Houston’s Rothko Chapel, DACAMERA and Rothko Chapel have commissioned boundary-breaking composer Tyshawn Sorey to create a new work inspired by the Chapel. In turn, Sorey drew inspiration from Morton Feldman’s 20th-century masterpiece, Rothko Chapel, which premiered there in 1972.

DACAMERA  announces a return to in-person concerts and recitals for its 2021/2022 season.

Starting on April 23, DACAMERA will be rebroadcasting select streams of the organizations' most popular and distinctive virtual programming presented over the past year.

DACAMERA, a Houston-based presenter of chamber music and jazz concerts, announces its virtual programming lineup for January through March. Continuing in the same format as DACAMERA's Fall 2020 programming, which the The New Yorker described as “an online season that stands apart from the virtual crowd,' the Spring season will include streamed concerts, two performances highlighting its longstanding collaboration with the world-famous Menil Collection, premiere broadcast streams of archival concerts with new introductions and more. All virtual concerts are free with registration at dacamera.com. 

February brings another hearty month of world premiere streaming concerts from DACAMERA and Kaufman Music Center. From Orli Shaham and the Daedalus Quartet to Sullivan Fortner and the teen composers of Luna Composition Lab, there are riches aplenty to help us through the winter months.

DACAMERA continues its spring series of virtual programming with pianist Sullivan Fortner in recital, available beginning Friday, February 19, 2021, at 7 p.m.

DACAMERA, a Houston-based presenter of chamber music and jazz concerts, announces its virtual programming lineup for January through March.

DACAMERA continues its virtual series of streamed archival concerts with the release of Tyshawn Sorey's Perle Noire.

You can now check out a brief excerpt from DACAMERA's upcoming presentation of The Departing Landscape (Nov. 17) a unique collaboration between pianist and Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg and filmmaker John Carrithers. It was filmed in the Ancient Gallery of Houston's renowned Menil Collection.