apollo chamber players

Celebrating its 15th anniversary season, the Houston-based chamber ensemble “recasts music for a diverse and multi-ethnic generation” (Strings Magazine) through globally-inspired programming and multicultural new music commissions. Winner of Chamber Music America’s prestigious Residency Partnership award, the quartet has performed for sold-out audiences at Carnegie Hall, and it holds the distinction of being the first American chamber ensemble to record and perform in Cuba. Apollo is featured frequently on American Public Media’s nationally-syndicated program Performance Today.

The quartet is composed of core artists Matthew J. Detrick, violin, Anabel Ramirez, violin, Whitney Bullock, viola, and Matthew Dudzik, cello.

current / upcoming

SILK THREAD
Saturday, September 10, 7:30pm (Q&A 7pm @Edith Bates Old Recital Hall Shepherd School of Music at Rice University
Weaving together convergent and divergent cultural strands, Apollo’s season opener features a world premiere inspired by composer Wang Jie’s experience as an Asian-American living in the 21st century. Program spotlights special guests Daryl Robinson, renowned organist and professor at UH’s Moores School of Music, and Fred Child, host of Performance Today, America’s most popular classical music radio program.

BANNED: Music
Saturday, November 12, 7:00pm @Holocaust Museum Houston
“Music is again banned in Afghanistan — they cannot ban this from the people around the world.”
— Homayoun Sakhi, rhubâb composer-performer

HOLIDAY VOYAGE
Saturday, December 17, 7:00pm @First Congregational Church Houston
Apollo’s fifth annual Holiday Voyage concert features a multicultural assortment of Christmas, Jewish and Kwanzaa-inspired music. Program to include our ‘greatest holiday hits’, with guests Wayne Ashley (tenor) and Isabelle Ganz (composer-performer)

For more information on all 2023 concerts, a new podcast series and an album, open Apollo Player’s Connective Harmony 15th Anniversary 2022-2023 brochure here.