Da Camera Announces December 2018 Concert Schedule

Da Camera of Houston presents the Pedrito Martinez Group, an ensemble led by Cuban-born, New York-based percussionist Pedrito Martinez. The group's 2016 album "Habana Dreams" was the No. 1 Latin Jazz Album in NPR's Top Jazz Albums for 2016 and was one of the Boston Globe's picks for best World Music Albums of the year.

Da Camera's mission is to produce and present concert experiences with a commitment to quality and innovation that broadens the audience for chamber music and jazz. From its founding, Da Camera's varied programming has consisted of chamber music in its broadest definition including both classical music and jazz, bringing highly acclaimed local, national and International Artists together in inspiring productions. Da Camera's programs were among the first in the nation to connect music to literature, theater and visual art, and to use video in multimedia concert productions. Among the first to incorporate jazz into a classical chamber music series, Da Camera is now recognized as the leading jazz presenter in the region.

Committed to the creation of new work, Da Camera has commissioned and premiered more than 30 new works in 30 years, many of which continue to be performed around the world by leading musicians. Da Camera has received numerous national awards for its creative programming concepts, and its original productions have been hailed in national press as "trendsetting" (Time Out New York), showing "unusual care and intelligence" (The New York Times) and an "ingenious thematic idea...brilliantly used" (The Washington Post). The Houston Chronicle describes Da Camera as "a Houston gem."

Saturday, December 1, 2018, at 8 p.m. WHERE: Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center, 501 Texas Ave. TICKETS: Tickets start at $37.50LINK: https://www.dacamera.com/?event=pedrito-martinez-group&event_date=2018-12-01P