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…
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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,…
Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra has rare lineup next season
By Cathalena E. Burch, originally published in the Arizona Daily Star [The] Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra is digging deep into the vault of the rarely played next season, presenting several works that hardly ever get…
Tucson Lifestyle features SASO soloist
The May 2016 issue of Tucson Lifestyle includes a full-page feature on SASO guest artist Emily Sun. Read the feature as a downloadable pdf by clicking here, or read the entire issue of the magazine here.
SASO performs Brahms, Barber and Berlioz
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 The final concert of the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra season on May 7 and 8 features Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture, Barber’s Violin Concerto with Australian-born soloist Emily…
Amanda Harberg’s Viola Concerto
This week, SASO is recording two recent concertos with viola soloist Brett Deubner for commercial CD release. We’ve played all the music in concert before; here’s a video of our first go at Amanda Harberg’s…
The Stankovs play Mendelssohn with SASO
Felix Mendelssohn’s E-minor Violin Concerto is a concert staple, and his piano concertos get an occasional outing, but it’s more unusual to find his early Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings on the concert stage….
SASO Presents Whitacre, He Zhanhao and Bruckner’s Te Deum April 1–3
Travel through your imagination from a young child’s moonlit bedside to ancient China, then 19th-century Vienna as you enjoy haunting, evocative and powerful music by Eric Whitacre, He Zhanhao and Anton Bruckner. Join the Southern…
Violinist Tiffany Chang Wins Dorothy Vanek Youth Concerto Completion
Violinist Tiffany Chang won the 2016 Dorothy Vanek Youth Concerto Competition sponsored by the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra. In addition to the $1,000 cash prize, she was invited to solo with the orchestra in concerts…
SASO Musicians Return from Music Festival in Brazil
By Tim Secomb Musicians of the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra recently returned from Brazil. The orchestra gave two performances at the Gramado In Concert International Music Festival. Gramado is picturesque town in the mountains of…
Latest stop on SASO international journey: Brazil
By Cathalena E. Burch, originally published in the Arizona Daily Star Forty members of the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra landed in Brazil late last week and, on Valentine’s Day, performed the first of two concerts at the Gramado…
2015–16 program notes: Gould, Rachmaninov, Dvořák
Here are the program notes for the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra’s concerts on Jan. 31 and Feb. 5–6, 2016. Get your tickets here. American composer Morton Gould was recognized for his musical abilities at an early…