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Loop38 in the press
Houston’s Loop38 shows there’s need for a sinfonietta in this town
Chris Gray, Houston Chronicle, February 2023
SPA looks to lift up Houston performers with Commissioning Project series
Lawrence Elizabeth Knox, Houston Chronicle, October 2021
SMALL ENSEMBLES, EXPANSIVE VISTAS PART TWO: LOOP38, APOLLO CHAMBER PLAYERS, CARYA STRING QUARTET
Sherry Cheng, Arts and Culture Texas, May 2021
The Shape of Sound
Chris Becker, Houston CityBook, November 2018
Loop38 Explores the Bodies Behind the Music
Hannah Che, Houstonia Magazine, November 2018
“athletic performances...accomplished musicians”
Eric Skelly, Houston Chronicle, March 2018
"With the creation of Loop38, something electrifying has arrived in Houston.”
Sydney Boyd, Girl at the Opera, Dec. 2016
Houston's Loop38 Celebrates debut of first major commission with rothko chapel concert
Lawrence Elizabeth Knox, Houston Chronicle, May 2023
Houston Chamber Choir presents regional premiere of Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered with Loop38
Style Magazine Newswire, Houston Style Magazine, January 2023
Pop-up musical events take over Houston parks Saturday
Lawrence Elizabeth Knox, Houston Chronicle, May 2021
Who Was Composer Julius Eastman?
Catherine Lu, Houston Public Media, February 2020
“…works that explore the physicality of sound and challenge the definition of music itself…”
Sherry Cheng, Arts and Culture Texas, November 2018
How Do You Perform Music That Doesn’t Look Like Music?
Michael Hagerty and Joshua Zinn, Houston Matters, October 2018
"young and dynamic...brilliantly conceived program"
Sherry Cheng, Arts and Culture Texas, March 2017
Past highlights
Longleaf
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 at 7:30 at MATCH
AND
Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 7:00 at Stephen F. Austin State University
Longleaf tells the story of the longleaf pine forest, an endangered ecosystem spread throughout the American Southeast with its last stands in rural East Texas.
Will and Soul
Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 7pm
Rothko Chapel
Loop38 explores human creativity, perseverance, and all that binds us all together.
Summer Sessions
Throughout Summer 2021
A virtual project released throughout the summer featuring four brand new videos.
Click here to watch them!
An Evening of Brass and Percussion
November 13, 2020 at 5:30pm
First Congregational Church of Houston
Outdoor, distanced music for our virtual and in-person audiences!
Behind the Scenes, Behind the Sounds
Nov. 14, 2018 at 8pm - ONE NIGHT ONLY
MATCH gallery (3400 Main St)
Performance of electroacoustic works by Maja Ratkje, Ashley Fure, and Lewis Nielson
$20 general, $10 student tickets
Mass for the Endangered
Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 7:30 PM
St. John the Divine Episcopal Church (map)
A celebration, and an elegy, for the natural world, this extraordinary work is an appeal for greater awareness, urgency, and action.
Pop Ups in the Park
Saturday, May 8, 2021 at 11am & 3pm
Levy Park & Smither Park
Two fun outdoor concerts around town featuring a wide variety of music with our friends from WindSync and Kinetic Ensemble.
Julius Eastman - a Houston First
Friday, February 21, 2020 at 8:00pm PM
First Congregational Church of Houston
After his eviction and early death at just 49 years of age, Julius Eastman’s body of composition was nearly lost.
Second Saturdays
Every second Saturday of the month, 2019
Silos at Sawyer Yards, Bay 200
FREE
bayou born
January 29, 2019 at 7:30pm - ONE NIGHT ONLY
Live Oak Friends Meeting House
$10 suggested donation
Underground Sounds
Oct 27, 2022 to Oct 30, 2022
Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern
For this series, Loop38 is working with composer Annea Lockwood to perform her piece bayou-borne, for Pauline. Based on the intricate bayou system surrounding Houston, the piece will come to life in the reverberant Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern.
Anywhere/Everywhere: Launching Loop38’s 2020-21 Season
Sunday, July 19, 2020 at 5pm
Virtual Event
A virtual celebration featuring performances from every single member of Loop38, and a special World Premiere collaboration with composer Tim Holt.
Bach/Berio at the Silos
February 23 2019 at 1:30 and 3pm - TWO SHOWS
SITE gallery Houston
Experience solo virtuosity up close with Bach’s solo works and Berio’s Sequenzas.
$10 suggested donation
Strange, Wild, Weird
December 10, 2018 - ONE NIGHT ONLY
Night Heron
Music that will make your whole body sizzle at one of Montrose’s hippest bars! Composers featured: George Lewis, Nicole Lizzee, and Jonathan Newman
$10 suggested donation