Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 TUCSON, AZ – Expect the unexpected at the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra’s April concerts. SASO welcomes tuba, violin and harp soloists plus the talented young players of…
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Harpist, Violinist, Pianist Win SASO’s Dorothy Vanek Youth Concerto Completion
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 TUCSON, AZ – Harpist Claire Thai, age 18, won first place and $1,000 in the 2017 Dorothy Vanek Youth Concerto Competition sponsored by the Southern Arizona Symphony…
SASO Presents Pete Fine’s Concerto for Electric Guitar March 10 & 11
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 TUCSON, AZ – Rare indeed. Mix together electric guitar and a symphony orchestra for a musical experience seldom heard. Tucson composer and guitarist Pete Fine will perform…
SASO Presents a Chinese New Year Celebration with the Tucson Sino Choir
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 TUCSON, AZ – The Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra will present four concerts with the Tucson Sino Choir to celebrate the 2018 Chinese Lunar New Year, the Year…
Sánchez Haase conducts SASO in November
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 Paraguay’s globe-trotting Diego Sánchez Haase will guest conduct the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra in a program showcasing Beethoven’s evocative Pastoral Symphony and Rachmaninov’s technically challenging third piano…
SASO Begins the 2017-2018 Season
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 TUCSON, AZ – On Oct. 14 and 15 the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra presents a lively program inspired by folk rhythms, poetry and joyous celebrations of the…
SASO Begins the 2017-2018 Season
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 TUCSON, AZ – On Oct. 14 and 15 the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra presents a lively program inspired by folk rhythms, poetry and joyous celebrations of the…
In Celebration of Mexican Independence Day
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 TUCSON, AZ – The Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra and winners of the Linus Lerner International Voice Competition will present a free public concert in celebration of Mexican…
Program notes for SASO’s March 17-19, 2017 concerts
By Tim Secomb During his long career, the English composer William Walton wrote music in several genres, from film scores to opera. Early in his career, he gained notoriety for his modernist work Façade – An Entertainment,…
Interview with Nicholas Turner
Via our Facebook page, here’s an interview, recorded live during a rehearsal break, with pianist Nicholas Turner, preparing to play the first movement of Ravel’s G-Major Concerto. Nick is the winner of our 2017 Dorothy Vanek…
Saxophonist returns to Tucson, this time with Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra
By Cathalena E. Burch, originally published in the Arizona Daily Star The Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra is pulling out the stops as it heads into the homestretch of the 2016-17 season. In three performances this…
Tucson Lifestyle features SASO guest artist
The March 2017 issue of Tucson Lifestyle offers a preview of our next concerts with a feature on guest saxophone soloist Ashu. Read the downloadable pdf here, or go to the magazine’s website here.
SASO performs Glazunov concerto March 17-19
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 The single-named Ashu is the first and only full-time concert saxophone soloist in the world and he’s coming to Tucson. This young virtuoso will perform Alexander Glazunov’s…
Music students invited to enter Youth Concerto Competition
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 TUCSON, AZ – Talented young musicians age 13 to 18 are invited to apply for the 2017 Dorothy Vanek Youth Concerto Competition sponsored by the Southern Arizona…
Interview with Erika Roush
SASO concertmaster Erika Roush speaks with executive director James Reel about her role in the orchestra.
S. Korean violinist returns for SASO gig
By Cathalena E. Burch, originally published in the Arizona Daily Star Edwin Kim must really like us. The violin virtuoso is making his third appearance with the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, this time to tackle…
Virtuoso Edwin Kim Returns to SASO for Elgar’s Violin Concerto on Jan. 27-29
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 TUCSON, AZ – Violin virtuoso Edwin Kim returns to Tucson for his third solo appearance with the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, this time to perform Elgar’s Violin Concerto…
Interview with Carol Wincenc
Just a few minutes before our esteemed soloist Carol Wincenc began her first rehearsal with SASO of Carl Nielsen’s Flute Concerto, she sat down with our executive director, James Reel, for a live Facebook chat…
Southern Arizona Symphony to honor late patron Irving Olson
By Cathalena E. Burch, originally published in the Arizona Daily Star You could always spot Irving Olson in the audience at a Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra concert. He was the little man in the front…
Program Notes for SASO’s Oct. 15-16 Concerts
By Tim Secomb Mexican composer Arturo Márquez was born in Álamos, Sonora. His father and his grandfather were musicians and Márquez was exposed to several musical styles in his childhood, particularly Mexican “salon music,” which strongly influenced his…
Dvorak’s “Song to the Moon”
Here’s soprano Elizabeth Rodriguez Berrios joining SASO and conductor Linus Lerner for the “Song to the Moon” from Antonín Dvorák’s opera Rusalka, in concert at the Fox Tucson Theatre on Sept. 15, 2016. Thanks to…
SASO presents Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, Gershwin’s Piano Concerto
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 William Levi Dawson’s under-the-radar Negro Folk Symphony and the very popular Piano Concerto in F by George Gershwin open the season of the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra…
SASO, Enrique Toussaint, Festival Soloists Perform Free Concert Sept. 15
Contact Fox Theatre Tucson at 547-3040 or Consulate of Mexico in Tucson at 882-5595 The Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra and vocalists from the San Luis Potosí Opera Festival join forces to perform a free public…
SASO musicians to play in Mexican opera festival
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 For the fourth consecutive year, members of the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra are going to Mexico to participate in an opera festival. In 2013, 2014 and 2015,…