Texas Music Festival - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition

Come listen and vote for the audience favorite award at the finals of the Texas Music Festival Young Artist Competition in the intimate setting of Dudley Recital Hall on the University of Houston campus. The 2016 winner of Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition, open to all TMF Orchestra fellows, will perform with the Festival Orchestra at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands Friday, June 24, 8 p.m. and at the Moores Opera House Saturday, June 25 at 7:30 p.m. The first prize also carries an international invitation to appear as a soloist with the Akademisches Orchester in Leipzig, Germany at the prestigious Gewandhaus.

Each summer the Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival (TMF) offers music lovers a month of cool, classical concerts. The June 3 – July 2 international music residency, based at the University of Houston (UH) Moores School of Music, attracts classical music’s rising stars from top tier music conservatories worldwide to study and perform in concert with world-class soloists, conductors and faculty artists at the UH Moores Opera House and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. TMF is in its 27th season.