Andres Orozco-Estrada Celebrates Fifth Season With Mahler's Resurrection Symphony

Houston Symphony Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada dives into the 2018-19 Classical Season with the epic and dramatic program Mahler's Resurrection Symphony at 8 p.m., Sept. 13 and 15, and 2:30 p.m., Sept. 16 in Jones Hall.

These performances mark Orozco-Estrada's first in Houston of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2, Resurrection. Inspired in part by the Book of Revelations, Mahler's Resurrection Symphony takes listeners on a spiritual journey through death and the apocalypse, transcending both to achieve eternal bliss in a glorious, radiant finale featuring the combined forces of 250 musicians. Lyric soprano Nicole Heaston and mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor join the orchestra and the Houston Symphony Chorus in the symphony's emotional and uplifting conclusion.

Celebrating his fifth season as Music Director, Orozco-Estrada precedes Mahler's symphony with the Prelude from Ives' Symphony No. 4, another work that explores the spiritual questions of meaning and existence. The Prelude to Ives' Symphony No. 4 features pianist Peter Dugan. The other three movements of the symphony will be performed in upcoming concerts throughout the season.

Mahler's Resurrection Symphony takes place at Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, 615 Louisiana Street, in Houston's Theater District. For tickets and information, please call (713) 224-7575 or visit www.houstonsymphony.org. Tickets may also be purchased at the Houston Symphony Patron Services Center in Jones Hall (Monday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.). All programs and artists are subject to change.

About the Houston Symphony

During the 2018-19 season, the Houston Symphony celebrates its fifth season with Music Director Andrés Orozco- Estrada and continues its second century as one of America's leading orchestras with a full complement of concert, community, education, touring and recording activities. The Houston Symphony, one of the oldest performing arts organizations in Texas, held its inaugural performance at The Majestic Theater in downtown Houston June 21, 1913. Today, with an annual operating budget of $33.9 million, the full-time ensemble of 88 professional musicians presents nearly 170 concerts annually, making it the largest performing arts organization in Houston. Additionally, musicians of the orchestra and the Symphony's four Community-Embedded Musicians offer over 900 community-based performances each year, reaching thousands of people in Greater Houston.

The Grammy Award-winning Houston Symphony has recorded under various prestigious labels, including Naxos, Koch International Classics, Telarc, RCA Red Seal, Virgin Classics and, most recently, Dutch recording label PENTATONE. In 2017, the Houston Symphony was awarded an ECHO Klassik award for the live recording of Alban Berg's Wozzeck under the direction of former Music Director Hans Graf. The orchestra earned its first Grammy nomination and Grammy Award at the 60th annual ceremony for the same recording in the Best Opera Recording category.

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