2024—2025
Our tenth concert season in Houston features world premieres from Karim Al-Zand, Mason Bynes, Miguel Zenón and Evan Ziporyn; and collaborations with Erberk Eryılmaz, Dilan Selek İlhan, Ismail Lumanovski and Alexandra Smither.
In Residence: MIT
February 18-22, 2025
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
21 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA
Kinetic Ensemble visits MIT to celebrate creative collaboration and new beginnings, and to explore music inspired by human invention, cultural heritage, and the natural world. This residency is part of the MIT Arts Festival and the new music building’s opening celebrations
The Cutting Garden
Friday, March 21, 7:30pm
Sojourn Montrose Church
3708 Newhouse Street, 77019
The second of two chamber music performances in intimate venues around the city, The Cutting Garden blends quartet and quintet repertoire from across time that engages with the natural world.
Environmental Strings
presented by Moody Center for the Arts
Saturday, March 29, 7:30pm
Moody Center for the Arts
Kinetic presents an evening of world premiere performances, centering around the issues of climate and environment, in collaboration with student composers from the Shepherd School of Music and students in creative writing and visual arts at Rice University.
Deep Rooted
Ten Years of Music-Making in Houston
Friday, May 23, 7:30pm
MATCH
Kinetic Ensemble closes out its milestone 10th season with a program tracing and celebrating its Houston roots. The evening features a world premiere by composer Mason Bynes and the Houston premiere of a new work by genre-defying artist Evan Ziporyn.
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Sounds of Anatolia
presented by Asia Society Texas
Saturday, September 28, 7:30pm
Asia Society Texas Center
Kinetic Ensemble teams up with award winning Turkish-American composer Erberk Eryılmaz for a vibrant evening exploring the diverse sound colors within Anatolian music. This event is part of Hoppa Project’s Fifth Turkish Music Festival.
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In Residence: SHSU
Monday, September 30, 7:30pm
Sam Houston State University
Kinetic Ensemble teaches and performs as part of Sam Houston State University’s annual Festival of Strings.
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Traditions Reimagined
Friday, October 4, 7:30pm
MATCH
Kinetic Ensemble opens their 10th concert season by featuring composers who have digested and transformed musical material from their immediate geographic and cultural contexts.
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The Strangers’ Case
Friday, November 22, 7:30pm
SANMAN
The first of two chamber music performances in intimate venues around the city, The Strangers’ Case explores concepts of placemaking, and features a preview performance of a new work for voice and strings by the phenomenal Houston composer Karim Al-Zand, sung by soprano Alexandra Smither.
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