The annual Avalon International Competition for Composers celebrates new, exciting, and highly original contemporary music rooted in the classical tradition by both young and more established composers. The competition concert showcases the stellar quality of Houston performing artists and ensembles who relish the challenge of learning and presenting works of great difficulty. Through the competition, …

The program "Ikh Benk Aheym" ("I long for home") explores the journey of Jewish music from Eastern Europe through the diaspora to contemporary USA. Two outstanding internationally acclaimed musicians, Hankus Netsky, founder of the Klezmer Conservatory Band (Boston), and singer/violinist Eden MacAdam-Somer are coming to Houston to perform Jewish music: ranging from traditional, both sacred …