events
Agarita in Spain
Agarita is honored to serve as the resident ensemble for the 2024 La Rioja Festival in Spain, run by famed guitarist Pablo Sainz Villegas. https://lariojafestival.es/en/ for more info.
Collaborative Composition Initiative workshop
Unheard-of//Ensemble is hosting the Collaborative Composition Initiative workshop (CCI//Sessions) in San Antonio, Texas in partnership with University of Texas – San Antonio and San Antonio College between June 3rd and 9th, 2024. This CCI, we will be presenting concerts across San Antonio again from Mission San Jose to coffee shops with concerts, installations, and creative workshops. The ensemble and eight composer participants will work closely with our composition faculty in the creation of new works to be recorded using Unheard-of’s cinema camera and audio setup. After the workshop, the ensemble and participants work together to develop album recordings. In addition, participants and the ensemble will collaborate developing group miniatures using sound samples and field recordings taken during the week in San Antonio.
Agarita + The Witte
Agarita marks their first collaboration with the Witte Museum with an adventurous, varied program that highlights and interacts with themes in the museum’s collection.
This concert is FREE and open to all! FREE tickets will be available 2 weeks prior to the concert.
Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 7:30pm
Dawson Family Hall, The Witte, 3801 Broadway, San Antonio, TX 78209
Agarita + Santiago Cañón Valencia
One of the rising stars of our generation, award-winning cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia performs with Agarita for a diverse program inspired by his Colombian roots and his experiences as a painter and photographer.
This concert is FREE and open to all! FREE tickets will be available 2 weeks prior to the concert.
Saturday, April 27, 2024, 7:30pm
Carver Community Cultural Center, 226 N Hackberry St, San Antonio, TX 78202
Songs of Love
Chicago-based soprano Kristina Bachrach joins Daniel for an evening of transportive art songs by Henri Duparc, Robert Schumann, Curt Cacioppo, and Ernest Chausson. This dynamic duo has a decade-long collaboration— enjoy their unique chemistry!
FREE reserved tickets available 1 week prior to the show.
The Agarita Loft, 724 S. Alamo Street #2, 78205
Note: the Loft is on the 2nd floor and only accessible by stairs. Capacity is limited in this 1300 sq ft space.
FREE parking (less than 1 block away!) for this event has been generously donated by United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County. Please access the northern United Way lot off S. Alamo Street through the entrance on Refugio Street.
Google Maps Parking Pin: CLICK HERE
Residency: University of Wyoming
Unheard-of visits University of Wyoming for a three day residency with the University of Wyoming composition studio presenting a concert March 21st and three days of workshops and recording sessions.
March 21st: Concert with music by Robert McClure, NNUX, Jessica Meyer, Vicki Nguyen, and two premieres by Nicolas Chuaqui
March 22nd and 23rd: Workshops and recording sessions
Harmony: the keys to deeper expression in classical music
In his first intimate lecture at the loft, Daniel shares his thoughts on the role of harmony in classical music, with examples of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, and many more. Let this demonstration deepen your listening skills and take you on an expressive journey through some of the most profound musical masterpieces.
FREE reserved tickets available 1 week prior to the show.
The Agarita Loft, 724 S. Alamo Street #2, 78205
Note: the Loft is on the 2nd floor and only accessible by stairs. Capacity is limited in this 1300 sq ft space.
FREE parking (less than 1 block away!) for this event has been generously donated by United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County. Please access the northern United Way lot off S. Alamo Street through the entrance on Refugio Street.
Google Maps Parking Pin: CLICK HERE
Residency: CSU Northridge
Unheard-of Ensemble visits CSU Northridge to work with the composition studio and present new film scores by student composers, as well as present the California premiere of Helix.
CMI Presents: Six Pack
Classical Music Institute presents a concert full of Sextets:
OLLI MUSTONEN’s Toccata, JEAN FRANÇAIX’s L’heure du berger, and SERGEI LYAPUNOV’s Piano Sextet, Op. 63.
Performers: violinists Brendan Speltz and Francisco Fullana, violist Ramón Carrero Martínez, cellist Brook Speltz, bassist Paul Macres, and guest pianist Daniel Anastasio.
Pre-concert talk given by Daniel Anastasio and Paul Montalvo.
Agarita + Pablo Sainz Villegas
Back by popular demand, internationally acclaimed solo guitarist Pablo Villegas returns to San Antonio for an evening at the San Antonio Botanical Garden filled with South American flare. In addition to works by Astor Piazzolla, Heitor Villa-Lobos and more, the program features a commissioned work by composer Laura Vega. Featuring guest violinist, Francisco Fullana.
Pablo’s appearance is generously sponsored by Terra Nova Violins.
This concert is FREE and open to all!
Agarita: AT RUBY CITY
Agarita performs an interactive concert at the Ruby City Art Museum in San Antonio.
Agarita: AT THE MOTHERHOUSE CHAPEL
Inspired by Andrea Casarrubios’ solo cello work Seven, this chamber concert explores loss and struggle in unique ways, with works from W.A. Mozart and Johannes Brahms to Jessica Meyer and Christopher Cerrone.
Unheard-of//Ensemble: WHAT REMAINS
Unheard-of presents Rome Prize winner Christopher Stark’s Fire Ecologies. Fire Ecologies is a climate manifest that explores human impact on America’s ecosystems. The work takes audience members through seven scenes that range from “alien” landscapes to scenes with footage from the Gowanus itself with video art by Zlatko Ćosić.
Unheard-of//Ensemble: SOUTHERN TOUR
Unheard-of goes on tour through Georgia and Florida.
Unheard-of//Ensemble: HELIX
Unheard-of//Ensemble presents the world premiere of a new commission from composer Ana Lopez-Reyes (NNUX) and video artist Martha Maya. Helix is a piece that simulates a spiral from pre-Hispanic to contemporary times, contemplating the cycles and inheritance in women's collective trauma, which has determined the ways we've been shaped as individuals through generations.