Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival - "Grand Finale" WEEK 4

Native Texan Carl St. Clair will conduct the TMF Grand Finale Saturday, July 2, featuring Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony, Op. 64, an epic piece about an 11-hour physical and spiritual journey climbing an Alpine mountain, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds, Op. 297b. The concert will spotlight four of TMF’s faculty members: Richard Beene, bassoon, Dean Emeritus of the Colburn School Conservatory of Music; Leone Buyse, flute, a professor at the Rice University Shepherd School of Music; Jonathan Fischer, oboe, principal oboe of the Houston Symphony; and Robert Johnson, horn, associate principal horn of the Houston Symphony. Fischer and Johnson are both affiliate artists at the UH Moores School of Music.

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.