Our Season
2024-2025 season Dates
ALL MEETINGS WILL BEGIN AT NOON (Doors open at 11:30 AM) 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
All In the Family
Musical Selections and Performances by our Members
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
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Speaker: TBA
January 28, 2025
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Speaker: TBA
February 11, 2025
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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
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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.
ALL music tuesday
December 3, 2024, Noon
The Holidays are upon us. Our final meeting of the year will feature our superb performing members gifting us with the sounds of music. Pianist Peter Schaaf will indulge us with the romantic spirit. Violinist Steve McMillan and pianist Meryl Ettelson will fill our ears with Beethoven. Rada Bukhman brings peace with the Meditation by Tchaikovsky. Soprano Kimberly Weill, accompanied by our president Cynthia Blackwell, will carol us with with selections by Britten. In celebration of the season, pianist Gayle Martin will conclude with a selection of holiday favorites. And be prepared for a surprise or two….
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January 14, 2025
Noon
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Nancy Weems, Concert pianist
February 25, 2025
noon
Nancy Weems, pianist, has established herself as both a performer and a noted pedagogue across the nation and the world. She has performed extensively in the United States, Europe, Asia, Mexico, Central America, and Russia to wide critical acclaim. A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Texas, her solo appearances include concerts in over fourteen foreign countries, in addition to the U.S. As a United States Artistic Ambassador, Ms Weems was invited to concertize in Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Russia, Mexico, Jamaica, Trinidad, Costa Rica, and Taiwan. After a recital in Reykjavik, Iceland, one critic called her "a rare treasure... Nancy Weems is an extraordinary pianist, grand in scope, and powerful in her interpretation, possessing fantastic technique” Additional international tours followed, to the United Kingdom, Korea, Malaysia, and the People’s Republic of China. After her solo debut recital at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., The Washington Post praised her “powerful technique" and "delightful mix of strength and flexibility." And the music critic of the Houston Post reported, "Nancy Weems put an amazing display of energy and keyboard technique into a recital that went from strength to strength."
As a respected pedagogue, Nancy Weems has given master classes in music schools and conservatories in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the West Indies. Ms. Weems was an exchange professor and guest performer at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England; Sungshin Women's University in Seoul, Korea; and for the International Piano Master Class Series of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 2016, Ms. Weems performed and taught in a four-city tour of China.
Nancy Weems is now retired from her position at the University of Houston Moores School of Music in Houston, Texas, a post that she held for over three decades. During her tenure there, she was a Madison Endowed Professor and Coordinator of the piano area. Her students have won top awards in many national and international competitions including top prizes in the MTNA Collegiate Artist Competition, the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the Leeds International Piano Competition, the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition, the Sydney International Piano Competition, the Hastings International Piano Competition, the Bach International Piano Competition, the Dallas International Piano Competition, the New Orleans International Piano Competition, the Corpus Christi Young Artist Competition, and the Nena Wideman National Young Artist Concerto Competition. Many of her current and former students now hold positions in music schools and universities worldwide, and many have successful performing careers under professional artist management. A dedicated teacher, she was named the Outstanding Collegiate Teacher in l99l by the Texas Music Teachers Association, and received a University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award in 1995.
Professor Weems regularly presents lectures, recitals and teacher workshops and has been a featured MTNA convention artist for the states of New York, Washington, Minnesota, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi, Arkansas, North Dakota and Texas. In addition, Ms. Weems has been a frequent presenter at the Music Teachers National Association Convention and the World Piano Pedagogy Conferences, and has served as a frequent adjudicator of national and international piano competitions.
Ms. Weems has recorded for the Albany and the Bay Cities labels. The recording, "Classical Hollywood" was nominated for a Grammy award in 1990. In addition, she has been featured in recordings of American composers Arnold Rosner, Chris Theofanidis, and David Ashley White. Her career was recently highlighted in a cover article by Clavier Companion entitled “A Legacy of Excellence.”
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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.