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​​Season 2025-26 Highlights!

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September 20th- Composers of Vienna and Madrid: Haydn, Mozart, Courcelle

Christ the King Catholic Church, 7:30 PM
By 1700, Spain was no longer part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but the court remained closely involved with Vienna and its music through Farinelli and musical exchanges during previous centuries.

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This concert features Nicholas Garza, one of the few extraordinary male altos, who will sing arias of the Bourbon Court composer Francisco Courcelle's opera, Achilles in Sciro.

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November 1st - Mandolin and Guitar in History
Salon Concert at the home of Barbara Bradfield, 3 PM

Featuring Dan Kyzer & Stephen Lochbaum

Music around this exotic instrument include works by Vivaldi, Sanz, Scarlatti, Granados, and Themes from The Godfather (Mandolin and Guitar).

Dan Kyzer, a Mandolin specialist on the faculty of Dallas College, has a busy teaching schedule for guitar, as well as organizing festivals. Adjunct professor of classical guitar Stephen Lauchbaum is a polymath of guitar, having trained at U Victoria in classical guitar (including with Pepe Romero) as well as jazz, winning top Canadian and US prizes and building a successful performance career before joining UNT for his doctorate in baroque guitar.

Salon concert to be held in the elegant White Rock Lake residence of music patron Barbara Bradfield.

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January 4th - Epiphany at Christ the King

Christ the King Catholic Church, 6 PM

Padre Antonio Soler and the Christmas villancico:

While the Court celebrated Epiphania with the panoply of orchestra and chorus, Antonio Soler created music of the common people with the witty tales of everyday Spanish life.

February 15th - Harpsichord and Piano with Malcolm Matthews

Salon Concert at the home of Richard and Enika Schulze, 3 PM
Newly hired by UNT as Assistant Professor of organ and harpsichord, Malcolm Matthews will bring one of his harpsichords to charm us with a variety of compositions for that instrument --from Early music to baroque and much more!

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Hosted in the music room of prominent art patrons Enika and Richard Schulze.

March 27th-28th - Pulcinella and El Amor Brujo

Moody Performance Hall, 7:30 PM

Double bill of Stories in Dance with Avant Chamber Ballet

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Pulcinella: Reimagined  by Igor Stravinsky and El Amor Bruno by Manuel de Falla. Stravinsky took a baroque model and made the 20th century's modernism a classic! El Amor Bruno takes un into the people and land of Andalucia in this one act ballet famous for its Ritual Fire Dance.

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Choreography by ACB Director, Katie Puder and Fernanda Olivera. With Mezzo-Soprano Carla Lopez Speziale and costumes by Fernando Hernandez

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Family showing of Pulcinella Jr. - Saturday Matinee, 3:30 PM at Moody

April 23rd - Music in the Museum

Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, 5 PM

Join us at the Meadows Museum for Mercado Español

Sponsored by 2025 Festival: Celebrate Spain Open galleries of the exhibit of the the Art of Jose Madrazo (1781-1859) scion of a family of 19th c. artist.

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Stay for concert of ONS costumed vocal soloist performing lively tonadillas of that epoch.

May 2026 - Home and Garden Concert

Location & Time TBD
Chamber music hosted in the private home of ONS arts patron.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​