Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music has unveiled its 2024-25 season. Here is a rundown of the upcoming vocal performances. First up is the Rice Chorale in concert. The ensemble will perform three times throughout the season. Performance Dates: Sept. 11 & Nov. 25, 2024 & April 14, 2025 Next up is Ana María Martínez & Friends in Recital. The famed {…}
The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University has announced that conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya will join the faculty as distinguished resident director of orchestras and professor of conducting. The conductor will begin his tenure as designate in the 2024-25 school year and will assume full responsibilities overseeing the Shepherd School’s preeminent orchestral programs in the 2025-26 season. Harth-Bedoya will succeed {…}
The Opera Department and Chamber Orchestra of Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music are set to present their first virtual performance with “Der Kaiser von Atlantis,” the only opera by composer Viktor Ullmann and librettist Peter Kien. While the opera was rehearsed in the ghetto of Theresienstadt in 1944, it was never never given a performance during Ullmann and Kien’s {…}