Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival - "Roman Holiday" WEEK 1

The TMF Orchestra Series will open Saturday, June 11 with a rich “Roman Holiday”-themed musical getaway. Mark Hughes, Houston Symphony Principal Trumpet, will provide fitting fanfare as guest soloist under the baton of TMF Music Director & Chief Conductor Franz Anton Krager. The program includes Giuseppe Tartini: Concerto for Trumpet in D Major, three pieces by Ottorino Respighi: Roman Festivals, Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome; and the famous showpiece, The Carnival of Venice by Herbert L. Clarke. The 95-person Festival Orchestra will be augmented by extra brass from Hughes’ UH Moores School trumpet studio.

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.