Sunday, 3:00 PM, McAllister Auditorium, on the campus of San Antonio College, 1300 San Pedro Plenty of free parking. Box Office opens 2:00 PM. Seating at 2:40 PM. World-famous concert pianist Lilya Zilberstein opens the program, performing Appasionata by Beethoven and Variations Brillantes by Chopin for us, before starring with the San Antonio Symphony the following weekend. Lilya will also present masterclasses at Trinity University and UTSA; all appearances are sponsored by Carol Lee Klose and Carolyn A. Seale. Then we are thrilled to introduce The Israeli Chamber Project to San Antonio audiences.  This group brings together the finest...

Sunday, 3:00 PM at McAllister Auditorium, on the campus of San Antonio College, 1300 San Pedro Plenty of free parking. Box Office opens 2:00 PM. Seating at 2:40 PM. Since 1994 when Nicholas Payton made his recording debut as a leader, the trumpeter has been lauded as a significant, top-tier voice in jazz. Even though he started out as a “young lion of jazz,” heralded as one of the new-generation guardians of the hard bop flame, Payton consistently committed himself to discovering his voice outside of the strict confines of that rearview mirror approach to the music. Payton was born into a musical family (he remembers sitting under the piano...

Sunday, 3:00 PM at McAllister Auditorium, on the campus of San Antonio College, 1300 San Pedro Plenty of free parking. Box Office opens 2:00 PM. Seating at 2:40 PM. As part of the city-wide celebration of Tchaikovsky’s 171st birth year, Musical Bridges presents Houston Grand Opera stars, singing a fabulous selection of this Russian Romantic composer’s arias. The celebration continues, featuring dancers from New York City, Russian-trained members of the popular folk ensemble...

Sunday, 3 PM at McAllister Auditorium, on the campus of San Antonio College, 1300 San Pedro Plenty of free parking. Box Office opens 2 PM. Seating at 2:40 PM Mercury Baroque, a chamber ensemble from Houston, performs the opera “La Serva Padrona” by Giovanni Pergolesi staged with period costumes and furniture. Then, Edwin Colon Zayas—National Endowment for the Arts award-winning master of the Puerto Rican cuatro national instrument—creates a fiery blend of native folk and dance music, and salsa with Sabor a Cultura, a group of musically-gifted youngsters from Cayey, Puerto...

The City of San Antonio boasts an array of Texas’s most diverse artistic sensibilities, religious beliefs, and ethnicities. Anya Grokhovski, our Artistic Director, scours the planet to find musicians whose exceptional talent communicates the uniting spirit of all of our sensibilities, across the expanses of time and world geography. Yes, our concerts present some noted, “world-renowned” artists. But what makes for fame in today’s mass media is not necessarily a skilled performer on an instrument or voice—flash, glitz, even outrage is what attracts attention. The sizzle. So you have probably never heard of many of...