Adventure continues where curiosity takes hold, in Pure Imagination. Artistic Partner Mei-Ann Chen returns to lead Houston’s chamber orchestra in its debut at The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts – Zilkha Hall on Saturday, Feb. 13, 2027, at 5:00 p.m. Featuring guitarist Mak Grgić, ROCO continues its 22nd season with two commissioned premieres, alongside works by Mozart and Mahler.
In the Texas premiere of his new guitar concerto written for Mak Grgić, Grammy-winning composer Austin Wintory invites the audience to help shape the performance in real-time through interactive technology. Composer Maxime Goulet traces the rebirth of an ecosystem, following the return of wolves to Yellowstone National Park, in the world premiere of The Return of Wolf Suite. The program also features ROCO’s principal wind musicians in the opening movement of W.A. Mozart‘s radiant Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds, before concluding with the nature-inspired opening movement of Gustav Mahler‘s Symphony No. 1 in D Major.
Location
The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts – Zilkha Hall
800 Bagby St
Houston, TX 77002, USA
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Program
Mei-Ann Chen, ROCO Artistic Partner & Conductor
Mak Grgić, Guitar
Alecia Lawyer, Oboe
Nathan Williams, Clarinet
Kristin Wolfe Jensen, Bassoon
Elizabeth Freimuth, Horn
Maxime Goulet
The Return of the Wolf Suite for chamber orchestra
ROCO Commissioned World Premiere
Austin Wintory
TBD
Mak Grgić, Guitar
ROCO Commissioned World Premiere
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds in E-flat major, K. 297b
I. Allegro
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 1 in D Major
I. Langsam, schleppend (Slowly, dragging) Immer sehr gemächlich (very restrained throughout)
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The Albert & Margaret Alkek Foundation
Lexus
Official Vehicle of the Hobby Center
