Upcoming Events
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra & Dallas Black Dance Theater: Stravinsky’s “Petrushka”
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and Dallas Black Dance Theater collaborate to perform Stravinsky’s “Petrushka.” The orchestra will also perform W.A. Mozart’s Symphony No. 40.
Performances take place on Friday, January 5th at 7:30PM, Saturday, January 6th, at 7:30PM, and Sunday, January 7th, at 2PM.
For more information regarding ticketing, please visit https://fwsymphony.org/concerts-tickets/23-24-season.
Candlelight Concerts: Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Bree joins the Listeso String Quartet in two Candlelight Concerts featuring Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Thaïs’ “Meditation,” and other classical favorites. Performances take place at 6:30pm and 8:45pm at Downtown Cowtown’s Isis Theatre. Visit https://feverup.com/m/133106 for tickets and further information.
Candlelight Concerts: Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Bree joins the Listeso String Quartet in two Candlelight Concerts featuring Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Thaïs’ “Meditation,” and other classical favorites. Performances take place at 6:30pm and 8:45pm at Downtown Cowtown’s Isis Theatre. Visit https://feverup.com/m/133106 for tickets and further information.
Candlelight Concerts: Haunted Halloween at the Isis Theatre (Copy)
Bree performs with the Listeso String Quartet for Fever’s “Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics” at Downtown Cowtown’s Isis Theatre. Come enjoy a spook-tacular program! Concerts take place at 6:30pm and 8:45pm. Visit https://feverup.com/m/131758 for tickets and further information.
Candlelight Concerts: Haunted Halloween at the Isis Theatre
Bree performs with the Listeso String Quartet for Fever’s “Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics” at Downtown Cowtown’s Isis Theatre. Come enjoy a spook-tacular program! Concerts take place at 6:30pm and 8:45pm. Visit https://feverup.com/m/131758 for tickets and further information.
Candlelight Concerts: A Tribute to Taylor Swift (Copy)
Candlelight Concerts have come to Fort Worth! Bree joins the Listeso String Quartet and Fever in Downtown Cowtown’s Isis Theatre for a program of Taylor Swift’s greatest hits.
Concerts take place at 6:30pm and 8:45pm. For tickets, please visit https://feverup.com/m/133339 for availability.
Candlelight Concerts: A Tribute to Taylor Swift
Candlelight Concerts have come to Fort Worth! Bree joins the Listeso String Quartet and Fever in Downtown Cowtown’s Isis Theatre for a program of Taylor Swift’s greatest hits.
Concerts take place at 6:30pm and 8:45pm. For tickets, please visit https://feverup.com/m/133339 for availability.
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: PianoTexas Festival at Cliburn Hall
For more information on ticketing, please visit https://pianotexas.tcu.edu/festival/index.php.
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: Brahms Symphony No. 1
Bree performs a community outreach performance with Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in Keller, Texas. The orchestra will perform Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 in C Minor.
Louis Moreau Institute for Contemporary Music
Bree participates as an Institute Artist for the Louis Moreau Institute in New Orleans in 2023 and 2024, performing contemporary works in collaboration with artists Wesley Ducote (piano), Virginia McDowell (oboe), Neta Rudich (violin) and Amy Tan (viola). The Louis Moreau Institute is a non-profit arts organization formed, in part, to honor composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and whose aims include introducing contemporary classical works to audiences within the vibrant, diverse arts scene of New Orleans. The 2023 festival will include works by Mario Davidovsky, Anton Webern, Ursula Mamlok, David Froom, Donald Martino, Aaron Copland, Luciano Berio, Beat Furer, and Karen Tanaka. For more information regard LMI, visit http://www.louismoreauinstitute.org/.
Tulsa Symphony Patti Johnson Wilson Classics Series
Bree performs with Tulsa Symphony for their Patti Johnson Wilson Classics Series, featuring Sarah Coburn and Stephen Powell performing works, arias, and duets from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Rossini’s Barber of Seville, Donzetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, and Verdi’s Rigoletto. For information regarding tickets, visit https://www.tulsasymphony.org/alluring/.
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra: Star Wars
Bree joins Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra for “The Empire Strikes Back” at Will Rogers Theatre in Fort Worth, Texas. Performances take place on Saturday, December 10th, at 7:30PM, and Sunday, December 11th, at 2:30PM.
Tulsa Symphony Patti Johnson Wilson Classics Series: Dvorak Symphony No. 7
Bree performs with Tulsa Symphony for their Patti Johnson Wilson Classics Series. The program includes:
Bedřich Smetana – Dance of the Comedians from The Bartered Bride
Chen Gang and He Zhanhao – Butterfly Lovers’ Concerto
Antonín Dvořák – Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
For information regarding tickets, visit https://www.tulsasymphony.org/sensational/.
Oklahoma City Philharmonic: Classics Series
Bree performs with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic for their Classics series. The program includes:
REVUELTAS (arr. Kleiber): Redes
RODRIGO: Concierto de Aranjuez
DEBUSSY: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
DE FALLA: Three-Cornered Hat
RAVEL: Bolero
For information regarding tickets, visit https://www.okcphil.org/concerts/bolero/.
OSU Faculty Recital: Bree Ahern, cello, & Hyejin Cho, piano
Bree presents a faculty recital in collaboration with Dr. Hyejin Cho in the McKnight Recital Hall at the OSU Greenwood School of Music on October 16th from 5-6PM. Their program will include Leoš Janáček’s Pohádka, Robert Schumann’s Op. 94 Romances, and Francis Poulenc’s Cello Sonata. Tickets may be purchased at www.mcknightcenter.org and are $12 for general admission, $10 for seniors, and $7 for students. The livestream and recording may be viewed at www.insideosu.com/shows.
Faculty Recital: Erin Kendall Murphy, Flute
Dr. Erin Kendall Murphy, currently the Assistant Professor of Flute at Oklahoma State University, will present a faculty recital featuring the chamber works of American composer Vivian Fine. Bree will collaborate with Dr. Murphy and fellow OSU faculty members on Canticles From the Other Side of the River.
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Bree joins the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music’s orchestra roster for their 60th anniversary season.
Friday, July 29, 2022, 8pm – The End of Rain
Jessie Montgomery: Soul Force (WCP)
Gabriela Lena Frank: Contested Eden (WP | Festival Commission)
Scott Ordway: The End of Rain (multimedia; Roomful of Teeth, vocal ensemble) (WP | Festival Commission)
Saturday, July 30, 2022, 7pm – Let Me See the Sun
Iván Enrique Rodríguez: A Metaphor for Power (WCP)
Stacy Garrop: The Battle for the Ballot (WCP | Festival Commission) (Texts from seven suffragists; Narrator TBA)
Paola Prestini: Let Me See the Sun (Lara Downes, piano)
John Harbison: The Great Gatsby Suite (WCP)
Sunday, July 31, 2022, 7pm – Roomful of Teeth in Concert
Featuring Grammy Award-winners Roomful of Teeth
Saturday, August 6, 2022, 7pm – Moonlight
Andrea Reinkemeyer: Water Sings Fire
Kevin Puts: Second Oboe Concerto: Moonlight (Katherine Needleman, oboe) (WCP)
Sarah Kirkland Snider: Hiraeth (with film by Mark DeChiazza) (WCP)
Sunday, August 7, 2022, 7pm – Violins of Hope
Jake Heggie: INTONATIONS: Songs from the Violins of Hope
Texts by Gene Scheer (Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano; Benjamin Beilman, violin; Thais Chernyavsky, youth violin) (Orchestral WP | Festival Commission-orchestral version)
Christopher Rouse: Symphony No. 6 (WCP)
Kinetic Ensemble: Concerto Reimagined
Kinetic closes its season with a concerto-filled program — but not the kind you think! Featuring a world premiere by Anthony Brandt (Rice University professor & artistic director, Musiqa), and a rarely performed Concerto for Strings by the Hollywood film scorer, Miklós Rózsa. For more information, visit www.kineticensemble.org/2021-2022.
Monarch Chamber Players & WindSync at the Czech Center Museum
Monarch Chamber Players and WindSync perform at the Czech Center Museum Houston, with Antonín Dvořák’s Serenade for Winds and Strings at the centerpiece of the program. This concert is free to attend, with donations benefitting the performers and the Czech Center. Due to limited seating, attendees are encouraged to RSVP to reserve a spot. To RSVP, click here.
The program wil include:
“Off Pist” for Clarinet and Cello by Svante Henryson
7 Duets for Bass and Cello by Dave Anderson (excerpts)
“Deep River” for Oboe and Bassoon by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Les Confidences D'un Joueur de Clarinette by Charles Koechlin
Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 4/103 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Serenade for Wind Instruments, Op. 44 by Antonín Dvořák
Performers:
Monarch Chamber Players
Rebecca Tobin (clarinet), Katie Hart (oboe), Jordan Brokken (bassoon), Maxwell Paulus and Russell Rybicki (French horn), Bree Ahern (cello), and Dave Connor (bass)
WindSync
Emily Tsai (oboe), Anni Hochhalter (horn), Kara LaMoure (bassoon), Julian Hernandez (clarinet) and Garrett Hudson (flute).
Onstage Offstage Music Festival
Monarch Chamber Players joins WindSync for their 2022 Onstage Offstage Chamber Music Festival in Smither Park, performing a variety of duos and trios for clarinet, cello, oboe, bassoon, and percussion, before teaming up with the woodwind quintet to perform Dvořák’s iconic Serenade for Winds and Strings. This event will also feature youth musicians from Houston Youth Symphony’s Coda program. All attendees are encouraged to bring a chair or a blanket to sit on. Refreshments will be available to sell. To RSVP to this free event, visit https://fb.me/e/1D2wvrAmk.
Monarch Chamber Players & WindSync at Peggy Shiffick Park
Monarch Chamber Players joins forces with WindSync for an evening of chamber music at Peggy Shiffick Park in Montrose on April 30th, 2022, from 5:30-6:30pm. Monarch Chamber Players will present a variety of duos and trios for clarinet, cello, oboe, bassoon, and percussion before joining with WindSync to perform Antonín Dvořák’s iconic Serenade for Winds and Strings. Due to the outdoor nature of this event, attendees are encouraged to bring a chair or a blanket to sit on. For more information, visit www.monarchchamberplayers.com/events.
This concert is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.
Onstage Offstage Chamber Music Festival
Monarch Chamber Players teams up with woodwind quintet WindSync for a Texas-themed concert in collaboration with Houston Youth Symphony’s Coda program. Musicians from beginner to professional levels will share the stage at Hobby Center’s Zilkha Hall, performing arrangements by HYS Coda music director Jackson Guillen and native Texan composer Mason Byrne. This family-friendly event is free and open to the public. For more details, visit https://fb.me/e/1EVJamZmK on WindSync’s Facebook page.
LiveWire with Musqia & Noble Motion Dance at the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Arts
Musiqa and Noble Motion Dance reprise “LiveWire,” an interdisciplinary collaboration between musicians, dancers, and scientists, at the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Arts as part of the “2022 International Workshop on the Neural and Social Bases of Creative Movement.” The performance and workshop will center around the intersections that can be found between creative movement, music, and the brain. Dancers from Noble Motion Dance will wear EEG skull caps while dancing to a performance of composer Anthony Brandt’s String Quartet No. 3. For more information on the event, visit https://yourbrainanddance.egr.uh.edu/schedule.
Aperio: Still Life with Avalanche
Bree joins Aperio for “Still Life with Avalanche” at MATCH Theater on April 1st, a program combining punk rock, heavy metal, and classical chamber music genres in works composed by D.J. Sparr, Missy Mazzoli, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Anthony Joseph Lanman. For information regarding ticketing, please visit https://www.aperioamericas.org/still-life-with-avalanche-1.
Monarch Chamber Players at the Vermont Commons Civic Association
Bree performs with Monarch Chamber Players for an eclectic chamber music program at Vermont Commons Civic Association. This free community performance will also feature Douglas DeVries (flute), Katie Hart (oboe), and Dave Connor (bass). 2025 Fairview St, 7-8pm.
Monarch Chamber Players at Ervan Chew Dog Park
Monarch Chamber Players performs a free porch concert at Ervan Chew Dog Park, presenting works by Joseph Haydn, Alberto Ginastera, and Dave Anderson, in addition to arrangements of popular tunes. Come enjoy this eclectic pairing of music for flute, oboe, cello and bass. The event is free to attend, with donations accepted on site to support the performers. Audience members are encouraged to bring a chair or blanket to sit on.
Da Camera Young Artist Program: Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time at the Museum of Fine Arts
Da Camera Young Artists Mary Grace Johnson, Chelsea de Souza, Keeheon Nam, and Bree Ahern perform Olivier Messiaen’s “Quator pour la fin du temps” at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
Musiqa: Cabaret of Shadows at MATCH Theater
Musiqa presents “Cabaret of Shadows” in collaboration with STAGES at Match Theater, featuring a new chamber opera written by composer Laura Schwendinger. For more information, visit https://musiqa.org/2021-2022/. Performances take place on Saturday, March 5th, from 7:30-9:30PM, and Sunday, March 6th, from 3-5PM.
Da Camera Young Artist Program: A Little Day Music at the Wortham Theater
Bree performs Nicky Sohn’s “Radiant Pathway” for solo cello as part of Da Camera of Houston’s ongoing “A Little Day Music” series at the Wortham Theater. ALDM provides live classical music for assisted living center and nursing home residents during a free lunch hour in the downtown theater.
"She Wrote" with Kinetic Ensemble at Archway Gallery
Bree has curated “She Wrote” for Kinetic Ensemble, an interdisciplinary program at Archway Gallery marrying art, literature, chamber music, and the works of female artists. The performance centers around the artwork of local artist Maryam Lavaf, which will be paired with poetry by Mary Oliver and works for string quartet and soprano by Sarah Kirkland Snider, Libby Larsen, Rebecca Clarke, and Robert Schumann that explore the intersections and interactions between humans and the natural world.
Program:
“O Virtus Sapientiae” by Hildegard von Bingen, arr. by Sarah Kirkland Snider
“She Wrote: String Quartet” by Libby Larsen
“Daybreak” by Rebecca Clarke
String Quartet in A Major, Op. 41 No. 3 by Robert Schumann
For more information regarding ticketing, visit www.kineticensemble.org/events.