Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 TUCSON, AZ – The well-traveled Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra is headed for another international performance – this time in Brazil. Forty SASO musicians will join members of the Symphony Orchestra of…
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SASO Presents Soul-Stirring Music by Gould, Rachmaninov, Dvořák
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 Lush, haunting and hummable melodies infuse the next program of the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra on Jan. 31 in northwest Tucson, Feb. 5 in Green Valley and…
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 2016 Dorothy Vanek Youth Concerto Competition sponsored by the Southern Arizona…
2015-16 Cycle 2 Program Notes
By Tim Secomb Karelia is a region of northern Europe, on the border between Russia and Finland. Tensions over the ownership of Karelia were an important aspect of Finland’s struggle for independence. In 1893, Finnish composer Jean…
SASO performs Mendelssohn, Sibelius and Vaughan Williams
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 TUCSON, AZ – The Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra welcomes three international guest artists Nov. 7 and 8 for concerts featuring the music of Sibelius, Mendelssohn and Vaughan Williams….
Program notes for SASO’s October 2015 concerts
By Tim Secomb Mexican composer José Pablo Moncayo García was one of the most important representatives of the Mexican nationalist movement in classical music, along with fellow composers Silvestre Revueltas and Carlos Chávez. His Huapango is an original…
When the finale isn’t quite final
By Cathalena E. Burch, originally published in the Arizona Daily Star Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra will get the rare opportunity to perform a concerto with the soloist for whom the piece was written. In two…
SASO Season Opens with Viola Concerto, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 The Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra opens the season with Amanda Harberg’s Viola Concerto, composed for and played by her friend Brett Deubner, a champion of new works…
Tucson Lifestyle features SASO’s concertmaster
The September 2015 issue of Tucson Lifestyle includes a full-page feature on SASO’s concertmaster, Erika Roush. Read the feature as a downloadable pdf by clicking here, or read the entire issue of the magazine here.
SASO Musicians Present Highlights from 2015 Oaxaca Opera Festival
Twenty-five musicians from the Tucson-based Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra returned recently from Oaxaca, Mexico, where they performed in the Oaxaca Opera Festival for the third consecutive year. The full orchestra will perform highlights of the…
Honored for a Lifetime of Giving: SASO Season Sponsor Dorothy Vanek Receives Legacy Award
By David Rupkalvis, originally published in Explorer For much of her life, Dorothy Vanek has been a giver. Whether supporting the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, True Concord Voices and Orchestra or many…
Oaxaca Opera Festival in Mexican press
SASO, Linus Lerner and the 2016 Oaxaca Opera Festival are receiving plentiful advance coverage in the Mexican press. If you read Spanish, or if you’re just a monolingual voyeur, follow the links to short pieces…
SASO, Lerner heading back to Oaxaca
By Cathalena E. Burch, originally published in the Arizona Daily Star Opera is not native to the culturally rich southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, but a Tucson conductor and his orchestra are among those trying…
2015-16 Season Tickets Now Available
Through May 17, you may purchase early-bird-discount season tickets for SASO’s five 2015-16 concerts at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian for only $80. That’s five concerts for less than the cost of four single tickets! Season ticket…
SASO concert goes from sorrow to surprise
[The] Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra this weekend will host a teen violinist from Phoenix in a concert that also features an internationally known violist from our backyard.
SASO Features Violist Hong-Mei Xiao in Concerts April 10-12
Internationally acclaimed violist Hong-Mei Xiao returns to solo with the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra in a program that also includes Khachaturian’s Masquerade Suite and the premiere of Michael Kiefer’s Psalm 22.
Desert Vista student 1st violinist to win Dorothy Vanek Youth Concerto Competition
By Allison Hurtado, originally published in the Ahwatukee Foothills News Desert Vista High School student Bobae Johnson knows a thing or two about winning a competition, but for her it’s not a sport she’s playing…
Phoenix Violinist Wins Dorothy Vanek Youth Concerto Competition
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 Fifteen-year-old violinist Bobae Johnson won the 2015 Dorothy Vanek Youth Concerto Competition sponsored by the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra. In addition to the $1,000 cash prize, she…
‘Lesser’ of Beethoven’s Concertos on SASO Program
By Cathalena E. Burch, originally published in the Arizona Daily Star It’s not often you get to hear Beethoven’s Triple Concerto performed live. It’s hard to say why, although some might cite its length —…
SASO presents Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, Dvorak’s Eighth
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 Tucson music lovers are in for a rare treat on Feb. 20, 21 and 22 when the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra presents Beethoven’s seldom performed Triple Concerto,…
Music Students: Apply for Youth Concerto Competition
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 Talented students who love to play music are encouraged to apply for the 2015 Dorothy Vanek Youth Concerto Competition by Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14. Competitors vie for…
Edwin E. Soo Kim Appetizer
Following his outstanding 2013 performances with SASO of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto (which you can view in individual movements here, here and here), Edwin E. Soo Kim returns to Tucson in February 2015 to participate in…
Italian guest conductor, Polish violinist star in SASO’s international celebration Nov. 8–9
Contact Kevin Larkin at manager@sasomusic.org or (520) 308-6226 The international music celebration of the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra this season continues on Nov. 8 and 9 with Gabriele Pezone of Italy as guest conductor and…
Concert Archives: Stoller’s “Open Spaces”
Here’s a front-row video of Bruce Stoller’s Open Spaces Suite, which SASO premiered on April 6 and 7, 2013. Stoller himself served as soloist, playing one of the many yucca shakuhachi flutes he has crafted…