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​PROGRAM OF EVENTS

​Tuesday April 25 | 12-1pm
Lunch Concert at Crain Garden
​FREE - no tickets required
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The Center for Performing Arts Medicine and WindSync present a lunch hour concert for the TMC community as well as the general public at Crain Garden, a favorite common space in Houston Methodist Hospital. Expect to hear Beethoven, blues, and everything in between at this event designed to lift your midday mood.

Location: Dunn Tower at Houston Methodist Hospital, 6565 Fannin, Houston, TX 77030 
Parking: Paid visitor parking is available at any of the TMC parking lots.

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​Wednesday, April 26 | 6:30PM
Houston Farmers Market
​FREE - no tickets required
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Location: The Lawn at Houston Farmers Market, 2520 Airline Dr, Houston, TX 77009
Parking: Lot with ample free parking is available right by the lawn! Take either of the 2 entrances off of Service Street. Our parking lots are interconnected, so once you enter the Market, you can access both the front, side, and rear parking lots. Please see the Market Map for more details.

PHOTOS by Monica Hindmarsh Photography below:

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Thursday, April 27 | 7:30 PM
Rhapsody in Blue
ticketed event

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​WindSync and friends celebrate the spirit of collaboration in a joyous season finale. Part of WindSync’s seventh annual Onstage Offstage Chamber Music Festival, the concert will feature guest artists David Connor and Rainel Joubert, in a pop and Latin jazz-influenced duet for violin and bass. The full group will join pianist Yvonne Chen in a chamber reduction of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. The program will also spotlight music with Caribbean ties, including a brand new work by New York composer Nathalie Joachim, who often draws upon family influences from Haiti, and music by Ernesto Lecuona, the “Cuban Gershwin.”

Location: MATCH gallery, 3400 Main St., Houston, TX 77002
Parking: Paid garage parking and limited street parking available. MATCH is also conveniently located next to the MetroRail stop HCC/Ensemble. See their website for more parking directions.

​PHOTOS by Monica Hindmarsh Photography below:

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​Friday April 28 | 6 - 7 PM
HYS Coda
FREE - no tickets required

Location: Zilkha Hall at The Hobby Center, 800 Bagby St #300, Houston, TX 77002
Parking: The Hobby Center parking garage, accessible from Rusk and Walker Streets, charges an event parking fee. Valet parking is also available. Metered street parking can be found throughout downtown Houston.

​PHOTOS by Monica Hindmarsh Photography below:

The Onstage Offstage Chamber Music Festival is made possible in part by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance, the Texas Commission on the Arts, Rice University’s Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance Arts of Tolerance Program, the Huff Foundation, and the Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation and Research at the Eastman School of Music.

Presenting partners include the Houston Youth Symphony, the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, the Orange Show, Local Group Brewing, Levy Park, Kinder HSPVA Band, Lunar and Planetary Institute, the Houston Astronomical Society, Monarch Chamber Players, and the Center for Performing Arts Medicine.

2023 Guest Artists

David Connor and Rainel Joubert

David Connor was born in Chelmsford, MA and began playing the double bass when he was nine years old. He joins the Houston Symphony as a Community-Embedded Musician after two seasons with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, FL. Connor earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University and his Masters of Music at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. While at Rice, he was a fellow of the DACAMERA Young Artist Program for two seasons, which led to many community outreach opportunities and chamber music collaborations in the greater Houston area. Connor has participated in summer festivals including Music Academy of the West, Aspen, Sarasota, Domaine Forget, and the Britten Pears Young Artist Program. He has been a recipient of the Aspen Academy Orchestra Fellowship and was chosen in 2011 to be a member of the New York String Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall under the direction of Jaime Laredo. As a member of the New World Symphony, he has had the opportunity to teach double bass both at home and abroad, traveling to Medellín, Colombia and Geneva, Switzerland in 2014.

Cuban-born violinist Rainel Joubert joined the Houston Symphony as a Community-Embedded Musician in 2016. He has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba, the Opera and Ballet Orchestras of Havana and has played for many renowned musicians, including Claudio Abbado, Gidon Kremer, Erick Grossman, Ilmar López Gavilán, Paul Kantor, and the Borromeo String Quartet.
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His many awards include being named one of the four finalists of the 15th Annual Sphinx Competition, First Prize in the Concerto Competition of the University of Southern Mississippi, and Second Prize in the Violin Competition and Best Interpretation of Cuban Music at the 2006 Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (Cuban Artists and Writers Union).
As a member of Sphinx Virtuosi (SV) he performed in important halls such as New World Center (Miami), Kennedy Center (Washington), Carnegie Hall (New York), and participated in extensive community engagement activities. He speaks three languages (Spanish, Portuguese, and English) and holds a Master’s Degree in Music Performance from the University of Southern Mississippi.

THANK YOU!

Special thanks to our amazing friends and collaborators, HSPVA, and HYS Coda Program.

WindSync's 2022 programming is generously supported by the following organizations and community sponsors.

Center for Performing Arts Medicine
Rice University's the Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance 'Arts of Tolerance' Program
Richard D. Huff Foundation
City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance
Texas Commission on the Arts  
Liberty Auto Sales, INC.
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