2026-2027 Season
The Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra is proud to announce the formation of our new chorus. Conducted by Robin Lopez-Hanshaw, this ensemble will perform a wide variety of music including a cappella folk music, opera, and modern masterpieces.
We’re looking for members: click here if you’re interested in joining SASO’s chorus!
October: Let All Nations Sing
October 24 & 25, 2026
Saturday, October 24, 2026
6:00 PM
Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 2331 E Adams St,
Tucson
Sunday, October 25, 2026
2:00 PM
Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church,
2331 E Adams St,
Tucson
Folk and classical music from 11 different countries, featuring the beautiful Heyr Himna Smidur by Icelandic composer Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson, and works by four Tucson composers.
- New Britain (trad. southern US, Sacred Harp)
- Antioch (trad. southern US, Sacred Harp)
- Gandagana (trad. Republic of Georgia)
- Suliko (trad. Republic of Georgia)
- Feigur Fallandason (trad. Iceland)
- Souricho (French Central African variant of Suliko)
- Strazde Strazdeli (trad. East Prussian)
- Turėja Liepa, Liaj Taduvėla (trad. Lithuania)
- Trallallera (trad. Sicily)
- Heyr Himna Smidur (Sigurbjörnsson, Iceland)
- Lord Randall (Vargas, USA, on trad. English poem)
- Tacciono i boschi e i fiumi (Lopez-Hanshaw, USA, on 16th-c. text by Torquato Tasso)
- Missa Luba (Haazen, Congo)
- Indodana (Barrett and Schmitt, South Africa)
- My Kind-Hearted Boy (Linthicum-Blackhorse, USA)
- Prayer of Death (Blakeslee, USA)
- Lull to the Array (Aurora Bass, USA)
- Everchanging Trail (Kepner-Adney, USA)
December: Midwinter Lights
December 5 & 6, 2026
Saturday, December 5, 2026
DesertView Performing Arts Center
39900 S Clubhouse Dr, Saddlebrooke
Sunday, December 6, 2026
Jewish Community Center,
3800 E River Rd, Tucson
Featuring shofar virtuoso Bar Zemach
Music for Chanukah, Christmas, Diwali, and other winter festivals both sacred and secular, and a world premiere by Michael Kaulkin. Both concerts will be performed with chamber orchestra drawn from SASO members.
- Hanukkah Triptych (Lopez-Hanshaw)
- Hanerot Halalu
- S’vivon b’Sheva
- Estrellas llameen
- Ayni Tzofia (Syrian Jewish prayer, music by Divahn)
- Reno erat Rudolphus (Gregorian chant)
- Gloucestershire Wassail (trad. England)
- Ave verum corpus (Turnblom)
- Ave Maria (Biebl)
- Three Sacred Hymns (Schnittke)
- In The Bleak Midwinter (Betinis)
- Noel des enfants (Debussy)
- Rune of St Patrick (Lopez-Hanshaw)
- White Winter Hymnal (Pentatonix)
- Winter Solstice (LaViolette)
- Song of Becoming (Kaulkin premiere)
- Shab-e Yalda (Foroughi)
- Diya Jalein (Kaundinya)
- Son Of Pandu (Rajasekar) for string orchestra
March: From Nordic Fire to Eternal Light
March 6 & 7, 2027
Saturday, March 6, 2027
DesertView Performing Arts Center
39900 S Clubhouse Dr, Saddlebrooke
Sunday, March 7, 2027
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, SW Sanctuary,
7575 N Paseo Del Norte,
Tucson
The SASO Chorus joins the full Southern Arizona Symphony, as well as the Tucson Masterworks Chamber Singers, in a performance of Morten Lauridsen’s transcendent Lux Aeterna. The orchestra performs works by Bruch, Grieg, Forsyth, and Sibelius.
April: Die Fledermaus – A Comic Opera
April 17 & 18, 2027
Saturday, April 17, 2027
Pima Community College Proscenium Theater
2202 W Anklam Rd,
Tucson
Sunday, April 18, 2027
Pima Community College Proscenium Theater
2202 W Anklam Rd,
Tucson
Tucson soloists Kyle DeGraff, Diana Peralta, Andrew Stuckey, Kristin Dauphinais, and others will perform with the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a full production of Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II.