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:
Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946)
Siete canciones populares españolas for soprano and piano (1914)
Birsan, Sykes

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Selections from Scottish and Irish Folk Songs for soprano, bass-baritone, flute, violin, cello, and piano (1810-18)
Birsan, Jones, Jutt, Zori, Olsen, Cuellar

Undine Smith Moore (1904 - 1989)
Afro-American Suite for flute, cello, and piano
Jutt, Olsen, Sykes

Intermission

Shawn Okpebholo (b. 1981)
Balm in Gilead for baritone, flute, and piano (2013)
Jones, Jutt, Sykes

Antonín Dvořák (1841 - 1904)
Piano Trio in E minor, op. 90 (“Dumky”) (1891)
Zori, Olsen, 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