Texas Medical Center Orchestra Named National Finalist: The American Prize in Orchestral Performance (community division), 2024

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The Texas Medical Center Orchestra has been named a National Finalist in The American Prize in Orchestral Performance (community divison) for 2024!

In addition, the TMCO has been selected as NATIONAL FINALISTS for The American Prize ERNST BACON MEMORIAL AWARD for the PERFORMANCE of AMERICAN MUSIC, community ensemble division, 2024!

The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts is the nation's most comprehensive series of contests in the performing arts. The American Prize is unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, directors, ensembles and composers in the United States at professional, college/university, community and high school levels, based on submitted recordings. Now in its fourteenth year, The American Prize was founded in 2010 and is awarded annually in many areas of the performing arts. Thousands of artists from all fifty states have derived benefit from their participation in the contests of The American Prize, representing literally hundreds of communities and arts organizations across the nation.

Learn more: https://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/?m=1

Texas Medical Center Orchestra hosts US premiere of female composer's symphony

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Charlotte Sohy is hardly a household name, but she’s a great story. If Texas Medical Center Orchestra conductor and artistic director Libi Lebel has anything to say about it, the days of the early 20th-century French composer’s obscurity are numbered.

At the Hobby Center on March 3, which is International Women’s Day, Lebel’s ensemble will present the U.S. premiere — and only third performance ever — of Sohy’s Symphony in C-sharp minor, written in the thick of World War I but never realized until more than a century later. It forms the centerpiece of Lebel’s all-French International Women’s Day program alongside the "Fetes" movement of Debussy’s "Nocturne"; and Berlioz’s “Les nuits d’ete,” featuring mezzo-soprano (and Houston native) Audrey Welsh.

Read more at the Houston Chronicle: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/classical/article/international-womens-day-charlotte-sohy-18689267.php.