If auditioning, you will be notified of the exact time and place as noted below. All members of Houston Civic Symphony are volunteers. As a general rule, auditioning string players who meet the standards of the orchestra will be invited to join. Invitations to join other sections will depend on vacancies. All qualified players in all sections are invited to audition, as substitute players are often invited to perform with the orchestra on a concert by concert basis.
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Email Lovie Smith-Schenk, well known Houston percussion performer and teacher, has been forced to cancel her performance of Rosauro's Marimba Concert No. 1 with Houston Civic Symphony on May 15. Her injury is akin to the well known "tennis elbow", and highlights the physical demands of percussion practice and performance.
Houston Civic Symphony regrets the program change at this late date, and wishes Dr. Smith-Schenk a complete and uneventful recovery.
Watch this space for the announcement of replacement soloist(s).
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Email The Houston Civic Symphony celebrates the world of French composers with its next concert that will take place in the Main Theater at the new Morris Cultural Arts Center, Houston Baptist University, 7502 Fondren Road on
Thursday, 21st February 2008 at 7:30pm.
Music Director, Dr. Brian Runnels, will start the concert with the stirring work for brass, Fanfare to La Peri by the modern French composer Paul Dukas. Dukas is best known for his piece The Sorcerer’s Apprentice . Fanfare is also a brilliant and often performed work. Associate Conductor Michael Isadore will then conduct the orchestra for the haunting Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun by French impressionist composer Claude Debussy (1862-1918).
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Email The Houston Civic Symphony starts a new chapter in its history with its inaugural concert in the new Morris Cultural Arts Center at Houston Baptist University on Friday November 30th at 7.30 pm. Under the auspices of Music Director and Conductor Dr. Brian Runnels , Dean of Arts and Humanities at Houston Baptist University, the Civic Symphony is honored to be the resident community orchestra at the city’s finest new concert facility.
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Email Due to Concert Hall scheduling conflicts, Civic concerts in February and May 2008 move to Thursday night.
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Email Houston Civic Symphony and the Concert Hall meet for the first time.
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Email Talented local pianist Jasmine Hatem will perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in c minor, accompanied by Houston Civic Symphony at the Symphony's November 30 concert at Morris Cultural Arts Center on the Houston Baptist University campus.
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Email Thanks to Rufus Chaney, the Houston Civic Symphony website has a new look.
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Email The Houston Civic will conclude its 40th Season with a FREE concert at the Sharpstown Baptist Church 7000 Bellaire Blvd. (
map ) Friday, May 18th at 7.30 pm. Assistant Conductor Michael Isadore will open the concert with the Festive Overture by Dmitri Shostakovich.
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Email he Houston Civic Symphony returns to Zilkha Hall at the Hobby Center Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. for its annual concert showcasing the talents of the winners from the Young Artists competition held earlier this year. The concert will open with the Verdi’s Overture to “The Force of Destiny”, conducted by Michael Isadore. Mr. Isadore, Assistant Conductor of the Houston Civic Symphony, is Orchestra Director at Dulles High School. Carl Rogers, 7th Grade student at Doerre Intermediate School, will perform the first movement of Franz Joseph Haydn’s Concerto No 2 in G Major for violin . Carl studies with Agnes Simkins, adjunct professor at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music.
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