Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival

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• Welcome to TMF 2025!

  For over three decades, the Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival has brought Classical music’s rising stars to Houston! 

  Join us – young musicians, looking for a life-transforming, career-launching learning experience.  Houston is a vibrant, supportive, artistic city.  Please apply to one of our TMF Institutes.  

  Join us – Music lovers! Help us celebrate world-renowned performers coming to Houston and young talent reaching new heights of artistry during four weeks of exhilarating, uplifting concerts.  

  Evan Leslie
  Texas Music Festival, Managing Director

  

• Schedule

  Thursday, June 5 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall
  Sharon Ley Lietzow Piano Series
  Barry Douglas Recital

  Friday, June 6 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall
  Chamber Music I: Formosa Quartet and Faculty

  Saturday, June 7 | 7:30 p.m. in the Moores Opera House
  Festival Orchestra I
  Franz Anton Krager, conductor
       Mahler: Symphony No. 5
            Pre-concert performance by members of Virtuosi of Houston
            6:30 - 7:20 p.m. | Moores Opera House Lobby
            Settling the Score: Pre-concert lecture with Dr. Andrew Davis
            6:30 - 7:10 p.m. | MSM Room 108

  Sunday, June 8 | 2 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall - FREE
  Mitchell-Hogg Young Artist Competition Finals

  Tuesday, June 10 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall
  Chamber Music II: Harpsichordist Matthew Dirst, Faculty, and Fellows

  Wednesday, June 11 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall - FREE
  College Piano Institute Chamber Music Concert 

  Thursday, June 12 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall
  Sharon Ley Lietzow Piano Series
  Clayton Stephenson Recital

  Saturday, June 14 | 2:00 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall - FREE
  College Piano Institute Final Performance
  

  Saturday, June 14 | 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. in the Moores Opera House - FREE
  RED Carpet Night!
  

  Met-Ball-esque fashion runway + signature-Houston, Art-Car-esque, DIY artistry + a family-friendly concert = RED Carpet Night at the Texas Music festival.
  

  From 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Houston artists will help you create an art-car inspired, RED-carpet-ready fashion make-over! At 6:30 p.m., get seen at our glamorous RED carpet parade, inspired by a 21st century Cinderella’s ball. Then, enjoy The Texas Music Festival Orchestra’s performance of Cinderella inspired music by Prokofiev and other fantastic symphonic masterworks.

  RSVP HERE for RED Carpet Night!

  Saturday, June 14 | 7:30 p.m. in the Moores Opera House
  Festival Orchestra II: Cinderella
  Josep Caballé-Domenech, conductor
  Kirsten Yon, violin soloist
       Respighi: Fountains of Rome
       Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D; Suite from Cinderella
            Pre-concert performance by members of Virtuosi of Houston
            6:30 - 7:20 p.m. | Moores Opera House Lobby
            Settling the Score: Pre-concert lecture with Dr. Andrew Davis
            6:30 - 7:10 p.m. | MSM Room 108

  Tuesday, June 21 | 3:00 p.m. at the Menil Collection - FREE
  No Zoning - a musical exploration of Houston  
  Student Chamber Music in collaboration with DACAMERA
  DACAMERA Presents DACAMERA Young Artists and Texas Music Festival Fellows at the Menil Collection
  

  Saturday, June 21 | 7:00 p.m. at the Houston Saengerbund Saengerhalle - FREE
  No Zoning - a musical exploration of Houston  
  Student Chamber Music in collaboration with Houston Saengerbund
  An evening of German chamber music, social singing, and general good times at the Saengerhalle with Houston Saengerbund. 

  Sunday, June 22 | 1:00 p.m. at The Beer Can House - FREE
  No Zoning - a musical exploration of Houston  
  Student Chamber Music in collaboration with The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art
  A Beer Can House Block Party with percussion and brass chamber music at Houston’s iconic folk art masterwork, the Beer Can House.

  Tuesday, June 24 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall
  Chamber Music III: Collaboration Celebration!

  Thursday, June 26 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall
  Sharon Ley Lietzow Piano Series
  Gabriela Martinez Recital
      Music by Missy Mazzoli, Reynaldo Hahn, Caroline Shaw, Beethoven, Viet Cuong, Villa-Lobos, and more.

  Friday, June 27
  Pre-College Institutes
      • 5:00 p.m. in the Moores Opera House - FREE
         Jazz Institute Middle School and High School Orchestras
         Noe Marmolejo, director
         Percussion Ensemble
         Blake Wilkins, director
  

      • 6:00 p.m. in the Moores Opera House - FREE
         High School Wind Ensemble Institute
         David Bertman, director
         Percussion Ensemble
         Blake Wilkins, director

  Saturday, June 28 | 7:30 p.m. in the Moores Opera House
  Festival Orchestra III: Festival Finale
  Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
  2025 Mitchell – Hogg Competition Winner, soloist
       Anna Clyne: Restless Oceans, TBA solo
       Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
            Pre-concert performance by members of Virtuosi of Houston
            6:30 - 7:20 p.m. | Moores Opera House Lobby
            Settling the Score: Pre-concert lecture with Dr. Andrew Davis
            6:30 - 7:10 p.m. | MSM Room 108

   

  Box Office Telephone: 713-743-3388 

  Festival Contact: Evan Leslie, Managing Director
  phone: 713-743-2822
  email: tmf@uh.edu 

• Our 2025 Artists

  Guest Artists

  • Barry Douglas, piano
  • Clayton Stephenson, piano
  • Gabriela Martinez, piano
  • Kirsten Yon, violin

  Conductors

  • Franz Anton Krager
  • Josep Caballé-Domenech
  • Mei-Ann Chen

  2025 Faculty

  2025 Fellows

  TMF Alumni

• Cynthia Woods Mitchell-Ima Hogg Competition

  The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition was founded at the inception of the Texas Music Festival in 1990 by George and Cynthia Mitchell to provide a competition experience for members of the Festival Orchestra. Today, the George and Cynthia Mitchell Foundation continues this generous legacy, joined by the Houston Symphony. This merged collaboration joins the names of two of Houston’s most prominent cultural benefactors and honors their contributions to the arts in our city.

  The Cynthia Woods Mitchell - Ima Hogg Competition is open to all Texas Music Festival Orchestra Fellows and Piano Institute participants.

  All finalists will receive a cash prize and a medal. 1st ($3000), 2nd ($2,000), 3rd ($1000), and 4th ($750) place prizes will be awarded as well as an Audience Favorite Prize ($500). 

  Subject to approval of the conductor and the availability of orchestral parts, the 1st place winner will perform with the Festival Orchestra under the baton of Maestra Mei-Ann Chen at the Moores Opera House June 28, 2025. 

  The 1st place winner will also be invited to perform with the Houston Symphony in the 2025-2026 season.