Our Season
2024-2025 season Dates
ALL MEETINGS WILL BEGIN AT NOON AT EMERSON UNITARIAN CHURCH UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED
October 8, 2024
President’s Meet and Greet
at the home of Sharon Ley-Lietzow
October 22, 2024
Nature’s Music
Speaker: Matt Delevoryas
November 5, 2024
The Voice of Brubeck
Speaker: Dr. Arthur Gottschalk, Composer
November 19, 2023
Music’s Nature
Speaker: Deborah Moran, Violinist
December 3, 2023
TBA
Speaker: TBA
December 12, 2023
HTMC Holiday Luncheon at 10:30 am
At the Home of Jean Phillips
Perfomance by the Houston Tuesday Musical Club Chorus
January 14, 2025
TBA
Speaker: TBA
January 28, 2025
TBA
Speaker: TBA
February 11, 2025
TBA
Speaker: TBA
February 25, 2025
MUSICALE
A Special Performance by Pianist, Nancy Weems
March 1, 2025
The Rochelle Liebling Kahan Competition for Young Piano Prodigies
Houston Piano Company
March 11, 2025
TBA
Speaker: TBA
March 25, 2025
TBA
Speaker: TBA
April 1, 2025
Ruth Burr Competition for Piano
First Presbyterian Church
April 8, 2025
TBA
Speaker: TBA
April 29, 2025
Spring Luncheon
featuring the Winners of the Rochelle Liebling Kahan Competion and the Burr Competition
Houston Junior League, at 10:30 AM
2024-2025 Speaker Bios
Matthew Delevoryas
October 21, 2024 at noon
Matthew Delevoryas is a modern day Renaissance man who likes to explore the medieval quadrivium - mathematics, geometry, music and astronomy. Each pillar was considered a version of music (music in space, music in time, etc). An avid listener to classical music, Matt marched as a clarinetist in the Marching Owl Band at Rice University, where he received his degree in Mathematics.
A creative problem solver, he worked for many years as a systems programmer on mainstream computers. A passionate sport fencer, he trained to become one of the few Level 1 armorers in the United States, the highest qualification to repair the electrical scoring equipment and weapons. He currently works for Salle Mauro, Houston Athletic Fencing Center, and Alliance Fencing of San Francisco in this capacity.
Matt recognizes kindred spirits in the famous classical composers who also nurtured their love of fencing, botany, chemistry, astronomy and chess.
Dr. Arthur Gottschalk, Composer
November 5, 2024 at noon
A man whose music is described as “infectious, loud, and fun,” (Gramophone Magazine) and “fascinatingly strange,” (BBC Music Magazine) award-winning composer Arthur Gottschalk is Professor of Music Composition at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where he founded and directed the school’s electronic music laboratories until 2002 and chaired the composition and theory department for 15 years.
Gottschalk’s early work as a studio musician led to his co-founding of Modern Music Ventures, Inc., a company which held a recording studio complex, a record production division, four publishing firms, and an artist management division, and for whom he produced records for the PolyGram and Capitol labels, among others. Still conducting occasional work as an expert witness and forensic musicologist in music business trials, Gottschalk serves as a judge for many prominent competitions, including the Marvin Hamlisch International Music Award, the Cintas Foundations Awards, the McKnight Fellowships, the Grawemeyer Award, and the Piazzola International Music Competition, among others.
Gottschalk is a recipient of the Charles Ives Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, annual ASCAP Awards since 1980, and has been a Composer-in-Residence at the famed Columbia/Princeton Electronic Music Center, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, and a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome. He received the Gold Medal and Record of the Year in Music Composition from the Global Music Awards, for his Requiem: For the Living, and was honored with a prestigious Bogliasco Fellowship, as well as the First Prize of the Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Originale of Corciano, Italy for his Concerto for Violin and Symphonic Winds. The Association of Rice Alumni honored him with their Meritorious Service Award, the highest honor given to a non-graduate of Rice University.
In 2018, Gottschalk’s music was presented at Carnegie Hall by a group of Italian virtuosi; he was featured composer at the Thailand International Festival and was a Fellow at The MacDowell Colony. He was a featured composer at the 2019 China-ASEAN Festival in Nanning, China and guest clinician and composer for the 2019 International Trombone Festival. His work for baritone soloist, choir, and orchestra, Tebe Boga, was premiered in 2020 in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium. With his catalog now containing over two hundred compositions, his music is regularly performed domestically and overseas, with over 45 recordings on such labels as Navona, Crystal, Naxos, Amirani (Italy), and RMN Classics (United Kingdom).
His orchestral works have been performed by the symphony orchestras of Charleston, New Jersey, Vienna, Bratislava, Galicia (Spain), Fargo-Moorehead, Indianapolis, Houston, Pacific, Atlanta, Thailand, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Guangxi (China), and more. His music is published by Subito Music, Shawnee Press, European American Music Distributors, the International Horn Society, Potenza Music, SMP Press, Alea Publishing, TrevCo Music, The Spectrum Press, and Delage Music (France).
Now entering its second edition, Gottschalk’s book, Functional Hearing, is published by Routledge Press, a division of Taylor & Francis. He was a student of renowned American composers William Bolcom, Ross Lee Finney, and Leslie Bassett, and studied with Mario Davidovsky and Aaron Copland. Gottschalk explores the interstices between popular and art music, between the sacred and profane.
Deborah Moran, Violinist
NOVEMBER 19, 2024, noon
Deborah Moran was a member of the Houston Symphony violin section for 27 years. She first started studying violin in Midland, TX but credits the extensive music education in Houston, TX after she moved here at the age of 12 for steering her in that direction for a career. In Houston she studied with Houston Symphony violinist Elizabeth Mosny and was concertmaster of the Texas All-State Orchestra in 1974. She studied with Stephen Clapp at the University of Texas for two years before moving on to Juilliard at his suggestion to finish her BM and MM under Ivan Galamian and Margaret Pardee. After a short period of freelancing in Houston she joined the Symphony in 1983 and remained until 2010. Currently she is co-programmer for the Houston Tuesday Musical Club along with pianist Gayle Martin.
Outside of music, she is an active amateur astronomer involved in outreach, a telescope operator at the George Observatory in Brazos Bend State Park and a light pollution activist with an educational website called www.softlighthouston.com. She also loves all things space and aviation and moonlighted as a NASA test subject for a number of years including participating in simulated zero-G flights.
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December 3, 2024, Noon
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January 14, 2025
Noon
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Nancy Weems, Concert pianist
February 25, 2025
noon
Bio coming soon…
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wednesday March 11, 2025
noon
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March 25, 2025
Noon
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April 8, 2025
noon
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HTMC Annual Luncheon and concert featuring winners from the Burr and Kahan competitions
april 29, 2025
10:30 AM
houston junior league
Join us for our annual Spring Luncheon, where we will socialize, have lunch together and enjoy the music from the winners of the Kahan and Burr Competitions. Tickets available online or by contacting Kim Weill, Treasurer.