Cactus Pear Music Festival kicks off Wednesday, July 6, 2023, in Wimberley Texas at the Chapel in the Hills at 7pm and continues to San Antonio at Trinity Baptist Church on July 7th and runs through Saturday, July 15. Over the two-week festival, you'll hear 6 programs and 14 phenomenal musicians with an arc of programming that will be world-class from start to finish.

Concert Program:
This concert will explore the interconnected lives of Robert Schumann, Clara Wieck Schumann, and Johannes Brahms through their letters, diary entries, songs, and instrumental works

Songs of Robert Schumann, Clara Wieck Schumann, and Johannes Brahms
Birsan, Jones, Sykes

Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Piano Trio in D minor, op. 63 (selected movements) (1847)
Zori, Olsen, Cuellar

Clara Wieck Schumann (1819 - 1896)
Piano Trio in G minor, op. 17 (selected movements) (1846)
Jutt, Olsen, Cuellar

Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Scherzo in C minor, WoO 2, from the “FAE Sonata” for violin and piano (1853)
Zori, Sykes

Johannes Brahms
Variations on a theme of Schumann, op. 23, for piano four-hands (selected movements) (1861)
Sykes, Cuellar

WEEK ONE ARTISTS:
Timothy Jones, bass-baritone
Emily Birsan, soprano
Carmit Zori, violin
Ken Olsen, cello
Stephanie Jutt, flute
Scott Cuellar, piano
Jeffrey Sykes, piano