Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival

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• Welcome to TMF 2025!

  For over three decades, the Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival has brought Classical music’s rising stars to Houston for intensive study and exceptional performance. As Houston’s premier summer music festival and school, we invite you to join us throughout June for stellar performances by these young musicians, our faculty artists, guest performers, and world-renowned conductors and soloists. 

  Alan Austin
  TMF General and Artistic Director

  

• Schedule

  Tuesday, June 3 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall
  Chamber Music I

  Thursday, June 5 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall
  Sharon Ley Lietzow Piano Series
  Barry Douglas Recital

  Saturday, June 7 | 7:30 p.m. in the Moores Opera House
  Festival Orchestra I
  Franz Anton Krager, conductor
       Mahler: Symphony No. 5
            Pre-concert performance by members of Virtuosi of Houston
            6:30 - 7:20 p.m. | Moores Opera House Lobby
            Settling the Score: Pre-concert lecture with Dr. Andrew Davis
            6:30 - 7:10 p.m. | MSM Room 108

  Sunday, June 8 | 2 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall - FREE
  Mitchell-Hogg Young Artist Competition Finals

  Tuesday, June 10 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall
  Chamber Music II

  Wednesday, June 11 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall - FREE
  College Piano Institute Chamber Music Concert 

  Thursday, June 12 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall
  Sharon Ley Lietzow Piano Series
  Clayton Stephenson Recital

  Friday, June 13 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall - FREE
  Student Chamber Music
  Orchestral and piano participants perform

  Saturday, June 14 | 2:00 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall - FREE
  College Piano Institute Final Performance

  Saturday, June 14 | 7:30 p.m. in the Moores Opera House
  Festival Orchestra II
  Josep Caballé-Domenech, conductor
       Respighi: Fountains of Rome
       Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D; Suite from Cinderella
            Pre-concert performance by members of Virtuosi of Houston
            6:30 - 7:20 p.m. | Moores Opera House Lobby
            Settling the Score: Pre-concert lecture with Dr. Andrew Davis
            6:30 - 7:10 p.m. | MSM Room 108
  

  Tuesday, June 17 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall
  Chamber Music III

  Friday, June 20 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall - FREE
  Student Chamber Music
  Orchestral participants perform

  Saturday, June 21 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall - FREE
  Chamber Music Honors Recital
  Orchestral participants perform

  Tuesday, June 24 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall
  Chamber Music IV

  Thursday, June 26 | 7:30 p.m. in Dudley Recital Hall
  Sharon Ley Lietzow Piano Series
  Gabriela Martínez Recital
      Music by Missy Mazzoli, Reynaldo Hahn, Caroline Shaw, Beethoven, Viet Cuong, Villa-Lobos, and more.

  Friday, June 27
  Pre-College Institutes
      • 5:00 p.m. in the Moores Opera House - FREE
         Percussion Ensemble
         Blake Wilkins, director
  

      • 6:00 p.m. in the Moores Opera House - FREE
         High School Wind Ensemble Institute
         David Bertman, director

      • 7:00 p.m. in the Moores Opera House - FREE
         Jazz Institute Middle School and High School Orchestras
         Noe Marmolejo, director

  Saturday, June 28 | 7:30 p.m. in the Moores Opera House
  Festival Orchestra III
  Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
  2025 Mitchell – Hogg Competition Winner, soloist
       Anna Clyne: Restless Oceans, TBA solo
       Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
            Pre-concert performance by members of Virtuosi of Houston
            6:30 - 7:20 p.m. | Moores Opera House Lobby
            Settling the Score: Pre-concert lecture with Dr. Andrew Davis
            6:30 - 7:10 p.m. | MSM Room 108

   

  Box Office Telephone: 713-743-3388 

  Festival Contact: Alan Austin, General and Artistic Director
  phone: 713-743-3167
  email: tmf@uh.edu 

• Our 2025 Artists

  Guest Artists

  • Barry Douglas, piano
  • Clayton Stephenson, piano
  • Gabriela Martinez, piano
  • Kirsten Yon, violin

  Conductors

  • Franz Anton Krager
  • Josep Caballé-Domenech
  • Mei-Ann Chen

  2025 Faculty

  2025 Fellows

  TMF Alumni

• Cynthia Woods Mitchell-Ima Hogg Competition

  The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Young Artist Competition was founded at the inception of the Texas Music Festival in 1990 by George and Cynthia Mitchell to provide a competition experience for members of the Festival Orchestra. Today, the George and Cynthia Mitchell Foundation continues this generous legacy, joined by the Houston Symphony. This merged collaboration joins the names of two of Houston’s most prominent cultural benefactors and honors their contributions to the arts in our city.

  The Cynthia Woods Mitchell - Ima Hogg Competition is open to all Texas Music Festival Orchestra Fellows and Piano Institute participants.

  All finalists will receive a cash prize and a medal. 1st ($3000), 2nd ($2,000), 3rd ($1000), and 4th ($750) place prizes will be awarded as well as an Audience Favorite Prize ($500). 

  Subject to approval of the conductor and the availability of orchestral parts, the 1st place winner will perform with the Festival Orchestra under the baton of Maestra Mei-Ann Chen at the Moores Opera House June 28, 2025. 

  The 1st place winner will also be invited to perform with the Houston Symphony in the 2025-2026 season.