Sarah Rothenberg News

Streaming in November from Dot Dot Musica: Orli Shaham, Conrad Tao, Thomas Kotcheff, Anthony McGill, Sarah Rothenberg, Rolston SQ and more. 

DACAMERA's Fall 2020 season of online concerts, curated by Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg, continues this month with the debut of a new series, Hearing Color, Seeing Time.

DACAMERA, a Houston-based presenter of chamber-music and jazz concerts, announces its fall season of virtual programming, including livestreamed concerts, a new series with the Menil Collection, premiere broadcast streams of archival DACAMERA concerts with new introductions and more.

DACAMERA has announced its Fall 2020 schedule of online concerts, curated by Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg. All concert streams are free with registration at dacamera.com, and begin at 8 pm Eastern time. Each will remain available to view for one week. All are safely produced, observing social distancing and health protocols. 

WHAT'S STREAMING: CLASSICAL - WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 28 – OCTOBER 4

DACAMERA, the renowned Houston-based producing and presenting series, will begin its 2020/2021 season with an a?oeOpening Nighta?? of virtual performances, featuring an international lineup spanning multiple genres and styles. Hosted by DACAMERA artistic director Sarah Rothenberg, the free online event will take place on Friday, October 2, 2020 (8 pm Eastern time).

DACAMERA is continuing its virtual Home Delivery series with a feature of the 2016 Houston recital debut of world-renowned violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt. The performance, which includes a pre-concert conversation between the artists and DACAMERA artistic director Sarah Rothenberg, will be available beginning Friday, Aug. 14.

DACAMERA, a producer and presenter of chamber music and jazz concerts, celebrates the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth with Beethoven for All, a series of free concerts throughout the year. Beginning in February and continuing throughout 2020, DACAMERA presents all of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas at various locations throughout Greater Houston. Each concert is free and open to the public.

DACAMERA of Houston's 2019a?"20 season continues with A Woman's Life: The Diary of Virginia Woolf at Zilkha Hall, The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, November 9 at 7:30 p.m.

DACAMERA of Houston, together with Rice University's Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance and Holocaust Museum Houston, presents The Music of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, a free performance by pianist and DACAMERA Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg with DACAMERA Young Artists on Thursday, Nov. 14 at 6:30 p.m., at Holocaust Museum Houston, 5401 Caroline Street. The performance will be preceded by a panel discussion featuring Rothenberg in discussion with Patrick Summers (Houston Grand Opera music director) and Jeremy Eichler (critic, essayist and author of the forthcoming book Time's Echo: War, Modern Music and the Soundscapes of Memory). The performance and panel discussion are part of the Boniuk Institute's ongoing efforts to promote religious tolerance and literacy.

DACAMERA of Houston's 2019a?"20 season continues with A Woman's Life: The Diary of Virginia Woolf at Zilkha Hall, The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, November 9 at 7:30 p.m. Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano joins DACAMERA Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg in this performance of two song cycles, composed 135 years apart, depicting radically different views of two artist-women's lives. The program juxtaposes Robert Schumann's Fraunliebe und Leben, a romantic vision of wife and mother; and Dominick Argento's From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, musings of a literary genius struggling to find her voice and place in the world. 

Da Camera of Houston concludes its 2018 19 season with its unifying finale, Weinberg and Mendelssohn featuring the Daedalus Quartet in their Da Camera debut, along with the Brentano Quartet and Sarah Rothenberg, piano, in performance at the Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center on Friday, May 10, 2019, at 8 p.m.

Da Camera of Houston concludes its 2018 19 season with its unifying finale, Weinberg and Mendelssohn featuring the Daedalus Quartet in their Da Camera debut, along with the Brentano Quartet and Sarah Rothenberg, piano, in performance at the Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center on Friday, May 10, 2019, at 8 p.m.

Da Camera of Houston announces its 2019/2020 season, which features a lineup spanning a multitude of styles and genres.

Da Camera of Houston's 2018-19 season continues with "The Veil of Orpheus: Cy Twombly and Music," a unique musical event at The Menil Collection on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, at 7:30 p.m. The concert, which explores the powerful influences of mythology on visual art and music throughout history, coincides with a rare showing of Cy Twombly's Treatise on the Veil (1970) at the Menil.

Da Camera of Houston's 2018-19 chamber music series continues with a performance by the New York Philharmonic String Quartet at Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, on Friday, March 29, 2019, at 7:30 p.m. This concert marks the ensemble's long-awaited Houston debut.

Da Camera of Houston presents Vienna 1900: In the Garden of Dreams, an immersive original production conceived of and directed by Da Camera Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg, today, February 1 and Saturday, February 2, 2019, at 7:30 p.m., at Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts.

Da Camera of Houston presents Vienna 1900: In the Garden of Dreams, an immersive original production conceived of and directed by Da Camera Artistic Director Sarah Rothenberg, on Friday, February 1 and Saturday, February 2, 2019, at 7:30 p.m., at Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts.

At Da Camera Society of Texas' annual meeting this week, the organization's Board of Directors announced the realignment of its management structure. Sarah Rothenberg, who is celebrating her 25th anniversary as artistic director in the 2018-19 season and who has served as artistic and general director since 2011, will continue as the organization's artistic director. The current interim director of administration, Toni Capra, has been named to the newly created position of executive director effective July 1, 2018.

Da Camera of Houston is proud to present celebrated jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves as part of Da Camera's jazz series. The performance closes out the 2017-2018 season and takes place at the Cullen Performance Hall on the University of Houston campus today, June 1, 2018, at 8 PM.