Join us for our 31st season
New works, new projects, and new experiences!
From Grammy Award-nominated composer, pianist, vocalist, and educator Clarice Assad to Showcases featuring exceptional new voices from SOLI's signature 30x30x30 Project, this season is sure to satisfy any music enthusiast. We will break down barriers and engage you in thought-provoking musical conversations.
elementos
September 17, 2024 | 7:30 PM
Ruth Taylor Recital Hall | Trinity University
SOLI’s first concert of its 31st season is elementos, featuring Grammy Award-nominated composer, pianist, vocalist, and educator Clarice Assad. Elementos, Assad’s song cycle inspired by the four elements earth, fire, water, and air, features her as the primary voice of the narrative and anchors the evening.
The concert also presents Danza Nocturno by Puerto Rican composer Iván Enrique Rodríguez, described as a gifted colorist with an abundance of emotional energy and the means to communicate it.
At the center of the evening are the next three works from SOLI’s signature anniversary initiative, the 30x30x30 Project: Four Sketches by Eric Delgado, Phantasmagoria by Meg Okura, and Saghat by Adeliia Faizullina will receive their first project performances. Each of the thirty works selected as part of 30x30x30 Project will receive performances in San Antonio and around the country during 2024 and 2025 by SOLI and its cohort of performance partners.
You can watch interviews with Adeliia, Meg, and Eric HERE
This concert is FREE and open to the public
open mic VIII
November 3, 2024 | 7 PM
Malú and Carlos Alvarez Theater | TPR
SOLI’s 8th annual Contemporary Music Open Mic in partnership with Texas Public Radio highlights San Antonio’s closet crooners and avid weekend-warrior performers presenting their favorite classical works written after 1970.
For more information about this fun event please visit our website or click the button below.
showcase I & II
Nov. 2-3, 2024 & Feb. 15-16, 2025 | 9:30 AM
Ruth Taylor Recital Hall | Trinity University
Connect with today’s most relevant and diverse voices! SOLI’s 30x30x30 Showcases break down barriers and bring the community, composers, performers, and music together in a new and unique setting. Four events feature 20 of the 30 exceptional chamber works from the 30x30x30 Project where attendees can engage directly with the guest composers during Q&A sessions and casual gatherings throughout each day. The audiences will have the flexibility to attend some or all of every Showcase and experience working rehearsals, performances, and recording sessions, bringing each work to life. 30x30x30 Showcases create a strong connection between the creatives and the audience, making these events a must-attend for all music enthusiasts.
These events are FREE and open to the public. Join us for all or a portion of the events
cancionero
May 12, 2025 | 7 PM
SOLI’s final concert of its 31st season, cancionero, presents the world premiere of Cancionero de luto (Mourning Songbook) by Puerto Rican-born Cuban composer Armando Bayolo. This heart-wrenching response to the shooting in 2022 at Robb Elementary School and others like it sets six texts in as many languages to fill the need for an ecumenical music of grief that also embraces freethinkers, atheists, and other non-spiritual traditions. Commissioned by SOLI Chamber Ensemble and Yale University for its Choral Arts Ensemble of the Yale Divinity School, this new work is scored for small ensemble and chorus and marks SOLI’s second collaboration with the San Antonio Chamber Choir.
The evening will also include Blaze by Dianna Link from SOLI’s signature anniversary initiative, the 30x30x30 Project, Shawn Okpebholo’s reimagining of Amazing Grace for solo piano, and entre azul y buenos noches by Marco-Adrián Ramos, winner of the 2023 Cross-Country Chamber Consortium.