Our Season
2026-2027 season Dates
ALL MEETINGS WILL BEGIN AT NOON (Doors open at 11:40 AM) AT EMERSON UNITARIAN CHURCH UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED
October 6, 2026
PRESIDENT’S COFFEE
Home of Bob Lietzow
October 20, 2026
“Tonadas” - a Performance by Pablo Martinez, Pianist
Speaker: Dr. Pablo Martinez
November 3, 2026
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Speaker: Betsy Cook Weber, Director of Houston Chamber Choir
November 17, 2026
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Speakers: Brian Ritter, Executive Director and Eunghee Cho, Principal Cellist - Mercury Chamber Orchestra
December 1, 2026
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Speaker: Gary Ginstling, CEO - Houston Symphony Orchestra
December 8, 2026
HTMC Holiday Luncheon at 10:30 am
Venue TBA
Performance by the Houston Tuesday Musical Club Chorus
January 12, 2027
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Speaker: Todd Frazier – Methodist Hospital (Music and Health), Composer and Arts Advocate
January 26, 2027
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Speaker: Melanie Holliday, Internationally-Acclaimed Soprano and Houston Native
February 9, 2027
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Speaker: Aña Treviño-Godfrey and Jonathan Godfrey - Co-Founders Prelude Music Foundation
February 23, 2027
Holst’s “The Planets”
Speakers: Olive Chen (Trio Oriens) and her husband Mark Chen (Professional photographer)
Saturday, March 6, 2027
The Rochelle Liebling Kahan Competition for Young Piano Prodigies
Houston Piano Company
March 9, 2027
Topic Coming Soon
Speaker: Joel Love, Pianist and Composer -Texas Southern University
March 23, 2027
Hildegard von Bingen
Speakers: Betty Cartmell and Catherine Woodruff, with Julia Fox, Soprano
April 6, 2027
Annual Musical Joke Concert - Opera is the Theme
Performances by Our Own Club’s Performers and the HTMC Chorus
April 10, 2027 (Saturday)
Ruth Burr Competition for Voice
First Presbyterian Church
April 27, 2027
Spring Luncheon
featuring the Winners of the Rochelle Liebling Kahan Competion and the Burr Competition
Houston Junior League, at 10:30 AM
2026-2027 Speaker Bios
Dr. Pablo Martinez, Pianist
OCTOBER 20, 2026
NOON
“Sensitive and thoughtful” (Volksstimme), Pablo Martínez is a Spanish pianist whose career has been shaped between Spain and the United States.
He has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the National Auditorium of Music in Madrid, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Juan March Foundation, the Manuel de Falla Auditorium in Granada, the Palau de la Música de València, and the Palau de les Arts.
He is a prizewinner of several international piano competitions, including the Neue Sterne International Competition in Hanover, the Loewe-Hazen Prize in Madrid, and the Antón García Abril International Piano Competition, and has appeared at leading Spanish festivals such as Clásicos en Ruta (AIE), the Festival del Mediterrani, the Granada International Festival of Music and Dance, and Juventudes Musicales de España.
After beginning his artistic career in Spain, he moved to the United States to continue his studies. He maintains an active concert schedule in Houston, Texas, city where he is currently based. He was selected for DaCamera’s Young Artist Program, an artist-development initiative associated with one of the most active chamber-music platforms in the United States. In academia, he has taught at the University of Houston and at San Jacinto College. He currently runs his own piano studio and pursues an intense professional activity in music leadership—choral work and organ performance—at Saint John Vianney Catholic Church, one of the city’s leading sacred-music institutions.
In 2024 he released his first single, Diálogos con las Estrellas by Antón García Abril (Novus Promusica), a work with which he maintains a personal connection and which he premiered in 2010 at the composer’s request. With the release of Tonadas by Joaquín Nin-Culmell, Pablo Martínez reaffirms a firm and ongoing commitment to championing and bringing renewed attention to the Spanish piano repertoire, acting as an ambassador of Spanish music from abroad.
His principal musical influences have included Juan Lago, Leonel Morales, Josu de Solaun, and Tali Morgulis. Pablo Martínez holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the University of Houston.
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NOVEMBER 17, 2026
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DECEMBER 1, 2026
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JANUARY 12, 2027
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JANUARY 26, 2027
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FEBRUARY 9, 2027
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FEBRUARY 23, 2027
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MARCH 9, 2027
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MARCH 23, 2027
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APRIL 6, 2027
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PAST 2025-2026 season
October 7, 2025
PRESIDENT’S COFFEE
October 21, 2025
Music for the Birds
Speaker: Matthew Delavorys
November 4, 2025
Parallels in Music & Art (In 30 Minutes or Less)
Speaker: Deborah Moran, Violinist
November 18, 2025
A Musical Feast
Featuring: HTMC Fabulous Performing Members
December 2, 2025
The Planets: an HD Odyssey
Speaker: Deborah Moran, Violinist
December 9, 2025
HTMC Holiday Luncheon at 10:30 am
Venue TBA
Perfomance by the Houston Tuesday Musical Club Chorus
January 13, 2026
Nobody is Better at Singing Based on Their Zip Code
Speaker: Sonja Bruzauszkas, Mezzo Soprano, Founder/Director Round Top Theatre Forum, Founder/CEO Partnerschools
February 3, 2026
The Planets by Holst - A Performance by the Houston Symphony
Speaker: Deborah Moran
February 10, 2026
FOR THE LOVE OF MUSIC: A HOUSTONIAN VALENTINE
Speaker: Deborah Moran
February 24, 2026
CONCERT FEATURING CONCERT PIANIST
ZOYA SHUHATOVICH
March 7, 2026
The Rochelle Liebling Kahan Competition for Young Piano Prodigies
Houston Piano Company
March 10, 2026
HAVE YOU HEARD THIS? Weird instruments including the Octobass & the Blaster Beam
Speaker: Deborah Moran
March 22, 2026
ARTIST CONCERT at ST. PHILIP PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Artist: DEUX VOIX
March 24, 2026
PHANTOMS OF THE OPERA: A Look Behind the Scenes at HOUSTON GRAND OPERA
Speakers: Richard Bado and Alexa Lietzow
April 7, 2026
The Annual Joke Concert
Joke Moderators: Kelli Estes and Richard Baum
April 11, 2026
Ruth Burr Competition for Instrument
First Presbyterian Church
April 28, 2026
Spring Luncheon
featuring the Winners of the Rochelle Liebling Kahan Competion and the Burr Competition
Houston Junior League, at 10:30 AM