Join us on October 23rd, 2026 at KMFA’s Draylen Mason Music Studio for a night of chills and thrills featuring new horror themed works by composers Graham Reynolds and Jimena Contreras. 

Golden Hornet teams up with Onix, Mexico City's premiere chamber ensemble, for a thrilling album and concert of horror, featuring new works by Jimena Contreras, Felipe Pérez Santiago, and Graham Reynolds. This program includes two new commissions, concerts in Mexico and Texas, and an album release, all on the theme of Horror Stories. 

Horror De Cámara is the newest commission in Golden Hornet’s MXTX: Cross-Border Series. This ongoing series of Texas-Mexico based commissions has aims of using music to overcome divides, as the two communities become one in making an artistic statement together. For this project, our shared interest in stories of the morbid, the supernatural, and the unknown come together to reveal how much our cultures have in common beneath surface differences. 

Video game and film composer Jimena Contreras created a suite inspired by Mexican folk monsters, while Graham Reynolds adapted and developed his score for Ballet Austin’s “Poe”, inspired by the life and work of Edgar Alan Poe. By placing these two musical traditions side by side, Horror De Cámara reveals how storytellers on both sides of the border have always been in conversation.

The ensemble for this Austin premiere features Mexico City based conductor and composer Felipe Pérez Santiago plus Austin classical music scene all-stars Alexis Buffum (violin), Taylor Wang (piano), Kenzie Slottow (flute), Ilia De La Rosa (cello), and Joey Colarusso (clarinet). 

This project is supported in part by an Elevate Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment.