Tucson Desert Song Festival

Arizona Friends of Chamber Music

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The mission of the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music is to present the world’s great chamber music, performed by the world’s finest chamber musicians in a friendly and inviting atmosphere. Through two concert series, the acclaimed Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival, a dynamic program to commission new works, its extensive outreach to schools, and its affordable ticket prices, the AFCM aims to bring the joy of this great music to as wide an audience as possible.

Tucson Guitar Society

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The Tucson Guitar Society began in the 1990s as a small group of guitar players, many of whom were teachers and students, meeting in each other’s homes to share their music. Today, TGS has grown to an organization presenting six to seven professional concerts a year, bringing to Tucson an array of outstanding artists from around the world. TGS maintains its roots as a small, intimate group through its monthly “open mic” nights designed as an opportunity for any interested player to share his or her repertoire. TGS has also created an all-guitar orchestra, which performs two free concerts every year for the community at large. The Tucson Guitar Society collaborates with the University of Arizona School of Music’s Bolton Guitar Program to host master classes, concerts and the International Guitar Festival every November. For more information, visit the Tucson Guitar Society.

French Soufflé

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January 31-February 16, 2014 marks the second annual Tucson Desert Song Festival, a unique and collaborative effort, bringing internationally known soloists to perform alongside the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, UA Presents, Tucson Chamber Artists, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, Ballet Tucson, Tucson Guitar Society and Chamber Music Plus. In conjunction with the concerts, the University of Arizona School Of Music will host a series of master classes and lectures by the festival’s guest artists.

Brian Chambouleryon

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Brian Chambouleyron (vocalist/guitarist) has taught guitar and music appreciation to children, instructed European guitar teachers in the rhythms of Argentine popular music, and toured professionally through Europe and Latin America in concerts and stage shows. In 1999, he created, with singer and guitarist Lidia Borda Esteban Morgado, the show Patio de Tango, which was presented to great acclaim in Brazil and Argentina and subsequently at major festivals throughout Latin America and Europe. In 2000, he premiered Tangos, Waltzes and Milongas, with which he made the rounds of Argentina, France and Italy. Subsequently the Buenos Aires Ministry of Education and the Department of Music engaged him to present more than 100 performances of an educational show about the history of the music of Buenos Aires. His first solo CD, Chambouleyron Sings Gardel, released in 2004, was a popular and critical success; it was followed in 2005 by Chambouleyron Voice and Guitar, which evokes a minstrel Creole, alone with his guitar, delivering very personal versions of traditional Argentine popular music and tango. His third album, Tracción a Sangre, includes classic tangos and songs from the Río de la Plata basin. His print publications include Tango for Guitar and Latin Styles for Guitar, the latter including a DVD.

Featured Artists

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AMBER WAGNER	Soprano
February 9 & 10–Tucson Symphony Orchestra, “Siegfried Idyll” and “Wesendonck”, Wagner; “Leonore Overture No. 3″ and Abscheulicher from “Fidelio”, Beethoven February 15 & 17–Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Verdi’s “Requiem”

MARIE JETTE	Soprano
February 8, 9 & 10–Tucson Chamber Artists, “Petite Messe Solennelle”, Rossini Soprano MARIA JETTE’s wide-ranging career has encompassed everything from early Baroque opera to world premieres, in the United States and abroad. Her orchestral resumé includes The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Houston, Kansas City, San Luis Obispo, Santa Rosa, Charlotte, Buffalo, Grand Rapids, Austin, Marin and San Antonio Symphonies, New York Chamber Symphony, Portland Baroque Orchestra and Musica Angelica; plus Berkshires Opera, Roanoke Opera, Sacramento Opera, and the sadly defunct Ex Machina Antique Music Theatre in her home base of Minneapolis-St. Paul. There, she’s often heard with VocalEssence (led by conductor Philip Brunelle), Chamber Music Society of Minnesota, Minnesota Sinfonia The Schubert Club and Lyra Baroque Orchestra.A regular guest over many seasons at the San Luis Obispo Mozart and Oregon Bach Festivals, the Maverick Chamber Series and the Oregon Festival of American Music, she’s often heard nationally on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion.Maria is an ecumenical recitalist: her programs range from songs of Grieg or Fauré through Edwardian parlor music and Latin American chamber music, liberally interspersed with Tin Pan Alley and the Great American Songbook. She’s performed her own productions of Seuss/Kapilow’s Green Eggs & Ham and Gertrude McFuzz for over 50,000 kids throughout the country, with pit bands, symphony orchestras, and even just piano and train whistle! For more information– or to find her recently-released CD, In Our Little Paradise: Lyrics of PG Wodehouse, with pianist Dan Chouinard– please visit www. mariajette.com.

PHILIP BRUNELLE	Conductor, VocalEssence
February 8, 9 & 10–Tucson Chamber Artists, “Petite Messe Solennelle”, Rossini

NATHAN GUNN	Baritone
February 14–UApresents – Schumann’s Dichterliebe and songs by Schubert, Barber, Ives and Bolcom

JILL GROVE	Mezzo-Soprano
February 15 & 17–Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Verdi’s “Requiem”

JAMES VALENTI	Tenor
February 15 & 17–Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Verdi’s “Requiem”

MORRIS ROBINSON	Bass
February 15 & 17–Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Verdi’s “Requiem”

French Soufflé

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The second Tucson Desert Song Festival has a French focus. Our featured stars from America’s leading opera houses and recital venues will perform non-operatic works by Debussy, Ravel, Berlioz, Poulenc and others, plus a concert performance of The Damnation of Faust, and a ballet presentation of Carmen. The lectures, master classes and recitals, hosted by the UA School of Music and our guest performers, bring a depth and breadth to the festival for audiences of all ages, yearning to learn more about the composers and the pieces performed, and to increase their enjoyment and appreciation of the music.

FOR INFORMATION ON OBTAINING TICKETS TO ANY FESTIVAL EVENT CALL 1-888-546-3305

January 31, 2014

Collaborating with mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor, the choral and orchestral forces of Eric Holtan’s Tucson Chamber Artists present their 10th-anniversary signature event, featuring three chansons by Debussy, Ravel’s Shéhérazade, and Duruflé’s Requiem. The single performance will be at 8 p.m. at the Fox Theater. For tickets to this performance, click here.

February 1, 2014

The Arizona Friends of Chamber Music‘s Piano & Friends series presents The Ravinia Steans Music Institute on Tour, featuring soprano Nadine Sierra, baritone Nathaniel Olson, and pianist Kevin Murphy. The single performance will be at 3 p.m. at the Tucson Convention Center’s Leo Rich Theater. For tickets to this performance, click here.

February 1-2, 2014: Concurrent Cultural Activity

Arizona Opera presents Puccini’s La Bohème with Danielle Pastin and Jason Slayden (Feb. 1) and Corinne Winters and Zach Borichevsky (Feb. 2); Joel Revzen conducts. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 1 and 2 p.m. Feb. 2 at the Tucson Convention Center Music Hall. For tickets, click here.

February 6, 2014

Soprano Maria Jette and guitarist René Izquierdo team up for a special recital presented by the Tucson Guitar Society at the University of Arizona. For tickets, click here.

February 7, 2014: Concurrent Cultural Activity

Courtesy of UApresents, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet is featured with conductor Ricardo Castro and the Bahia Orchestra Project in a concert including Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G and music of Revueltas, Villa-Lobos and Márquez. The single performance will be at 8 p.m. at the UA’s Centennial Hall. For tickets to this performance, click here.

February 7-9, 2014

The Tucson Symphony Orchestra and conductor George Hanson welcome mezzo Jennifer Johnson Cano for Les Nuits d’été by Berlioz and Ravel’s Three Poems of Stéphane Mallarmé. Chamber-orchestra works by Berlioz and Ravel complete the programs at 8 p.m. Feb. 7 at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, and 8 p.m. Feb. 8 and 2 p.m. Feb. 9 at Catalina Foothills High School. For tickets, click here.

February 13, 2014

UApresents features soprano Christine Goerke and pianist Bradley Moore in a recital including Poulenc’s La Courte paille, Berg’s Seven Early Songs, and selections by Brahms, Wagner, Gluck, and Elinor Remick Warren. It takes place at 8 p.m. at the UA’s Centennial Hall. For tickets to this performance, click here.

February 14 & 16, 2014

The Tucson Symphony Orchestra is at full force with conductor George Hanson for a concert performance of The Damnation of Faust by Berlioz. Soloists are Jennifer Johnson Cano, William Burden and Jordan Bish, with the Tucson Symphony Chorus also participating. Performances are at 8 p.m. Feb. 14 and 2 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Tucson Convention Center Music Hall. For tickets, click here.

February 15, 2014

Chamber Music Plus presents March of the Women, with soprano Ariana Zukerman featured in songs by Clara Schumann, Fannie Mendelssohn, Amy Beach, Lili Boulanger and Pauline Viardot. Eugenia Zukerman narrates the program, which includes cellist Harry Clark and Sanda Schuldmann. The single performance will be at 3 p.m. at Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Tickets are available here.

February 15-16, 2014

The second annual Tucson Desert Song Festival concludes with a Ballet Tucson production of Carmen and Daphnis and Chloe. Afternoon and evening performances will be given both days at the Temple of Music and Art. For tickets, click here.

University of Arizona School of Music

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The UA School of Music, now more than 100 years old, has more than 500 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in a wide variety of degree programs. The School of Music is one of five units within the College of Fine Arts, allowing all students to develop interdisciplinary projects involving music, art, media arts, theater arts and dance. Many of its graduate and advanced undergraduate students have successfully auditioned for the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, the Arizona Opera Company, and other community ensembles. Many graduates have gone on to careers as K-12 educators, professors, administrators, recording artists, opera singers, chamber and orchestral musicians, composers, arrangers, and music industry professionals. For more information about the University of Arizona School of Music go here.

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Tucson Desert Song Festival

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…is a ten day classical voice festival bringing internationally known soloists and conductors to perform alongside some of Tucson’s leading arts organizations. The festival will be enriched by seminars, recitals and Master Classes led by our guest performers, hosted by the University of Arizona’s School of Music.

What makes this festival unique is the collaborative effort by the participating organizations, namely, Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Tucson Chamber Artists, UApresents, Chamber Music Plus, Ballet Tucson, University of Arizona School of Music and the Tucson Guitar Society coming together to present an array of performances and educational experiences along with acclaimed classical voices and conductors for the enjoyment of the public.

Tucson Symphony Orchestra

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The Tucson Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1929. Since then, the TSO has grown from a volunteer community orchestra to a fully professional orchestra serving Southern Arizona. In the last 20 years, growth has been apparent through the innovative programming, children’s concerts, community concerts throughout Southern Arizona, expansion of repertoire and ever-increasing artistic achievement.

The TSO offers more than 375 education and community partnership presentations annually, which reach tens of thousands of children and adults throughout Southern Arizona. The Tucson Symphony Orchestra provides the most in-depth music education programs for children in all of Arizona. These include in-school sessions by TSO musicians, concert performances and comprehensive curriculum, as well as the annual Young Artists Competition and Young Composers Project.

The mission of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra is to share beautiful, professionally performed music with as wide an audience as possible. It does so each season through a series of nine Classic concerts; four MasterWorks Chamber Orchestra concerts; five TSO Pops! concerts; Classic, MasterWorks and TSO Pops! specials; ensemble performances; Moveable Musical Feasts; and award-winning educational programs. Learn more about the Tucson Symphony Orchestra here .

Tucson Chamber Artists

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Tucson Chamber Artists is a versatile ensemble of vocal and instrumental musicians dedicated to enriching lives through the transformational power of classical music. As Southern Arizona”s premier professional chamber choir and orchestra, TCA engages singers from the first rank of choral artists in Arizona and around the country. Its instrumentalists have trained in some of the finest music schools in the world. TCA accomplishes its mission primarily through the performance of masterworks and the diverse music of America.

Now in its ninth season, TCA has quickly become a rising star in the American cultural scene. In 2009, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded funding for TCA’s American Masterpieces project, featuring works by some of the great American composers of the 20th century. In 2010, TCA’s choir was one of three professional choirs, including Chanticleer and the Incheon City Chorale from South Korea, invited to perform at the Western Conference of the American online casino instant Choral Directors” Association. That same year the journal of Chorus America, The Voice, published a feature article on TCA for its successes in light of the current economic downturn.

In 2011 TCA joined forces with Tucson Symphony Orchestra and UApresents for a special concert, Remembrance and Renewal: A Concert to Commemorate the Tenth Anniversary of September 11, 2001. The program featured Mozart”s Requiem and the premiere of a new oratorio by acclaimed composer Stephen Paulus commissioned by TCA. For more information on the organization, visit the Tucson Chamber Artists website.