The month's worth of concerts, master classes, private lessons, guest artists, chamber performances, and a competition are an invaluable experience for the young musicians.
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“We do have a good number of Texans who decide that they would like to come home to Texas for the summer,” he says. “We offer fairly generous scholarships to most of our students, so it makes it possible for them to have a summer musical experience, [so] that maybe their parents can come to the concerts. We are one of a group of about three or four orchestral training programs in the country that do this.
The orchestral concerts on June 11, 18, and 25 will be led by TMF music director and UH director of orchestral studies Franz Anton Krager; former Houston Symphony music director Hans Graf; and Chicago Sinfonietta music director Mei-Ann Chen. The final concert will conclude TMF’s “rediscovery week” with William L. Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, which premiered in 1934 to great acclaim but has since faded into obscurity and hasn’t been performed in Houston since 1989.
Besides the dozens of alumni now serving in orchestras as far removed as Alabama and Iceland — as well as several members of the Houston Symphony and Houston Grand Opera and Houston Ballet orchestras — many wind up in performance-adjacent jobs such as arts administration , orchestra management, and teaching jobs at all levels, from public schools to professorships.
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