Fred Fox School of Music

CONCERTLIST

February 2023

Anna Murphy

Flute Recital

Doctoral: MUS 925 – Qualifying

Thursday, February 2, 2023 7:00p

Holsclaw Hall, $Free

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49th Annual President’s Concert – Arizona Symphony Orchestra

with 2022-2023 Concerto Competition winners

Martina Portychova, mezzo-soprano

Gloria Ines Orozco Dorado, clarinet

Emmy Tisdel, violin

Wenxin Guan, piano

February 4, Saturday, 7:30 p.m.

February 5, Sunday, 3:30 p.m.

Crowder Hall, $10 music.arizona.edu/tickets

The 49th Annual President’s Concert will feature the Arizona Symphony Orchestra and student soloists who won the highly competitive University of Arizona Concerto Competition. Featuring clarinetist Gloria Ines Orozco Dorado, performing "Black Dog Concerto" by Scott McAllister; pianist Wenxin Guan, performing movements II and III of the Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 by Felix Mendelssohn; mezzo-soprano Martina Portychova, performing “Nobles Seigneurs, salut!” from Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer; and violinist Emmy Tisdel, performing movement I of the Violin Concerto in D major, Opus 35 by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The students are selected from each area of the Fred Fox School of Music – strings, voice, wind and percussion, and keyboard. They represent the depth of talent at the school, shining in this performance with the Arizona Symphony Orchestra. Graduate students Yudai Ueda and Fátima Corona del Toro will conduct the students’ performances. The program will also include works by Myroslav Skoryk and Alexander Borodin, under the baton of Dr. Thomas Cockrell.

Schulman Award Recital – Ana Maria Iordache

February 5, Sunday, 7:00 p.m.

Holsclaw Hall, $Free

Distinguished graduate student Ana Maria Iordache will perform in memory of local guitarist Steve Schulman, who was one of the founders of the Tucson Guitar Society and a great friend of the UA Bolton Guitar Studies Program. Iordache has been awarded top prizes in numerous international competitions.

Jocir Macedo

Piano Recital

Doctoral: MUS 925 – Lecture

Monday, February 6, 2023 7:00p

Room 137, $Free

Faculty Artist Series Recital

Edward Goodman, saxophone & Fanya Lin, piano

Friday, February 10, 7:00 p.m.

Holsclaw Hall, $10 music.arizona.edu/tickets

Join faculty artists Edward Goodman, saxophone and Fanya Lin, piano for a program of music by Zoe Cutler, Amy Beach, Germaine Tailleferre, William Grant Still, Kay He, Andy Scott, and Annika Socolofsky.

Joshua Hack, Gareth Montanarello

Upright Bass Recital

Saturday, February 11, 2023 7:00p

Holsclaw Hall, $Free

Guest Artist Series Recital

Amelia, Romano, Harp

Sunday, February 12, 1:00 p.m.

Holsclaw Hall, $Free

Lever harpist Amelia Romano, a “genre-defying composer and arranger” (World Music Central), has dedicated much of her career to building and advancing repertoire for the lever harp in contemporary music. Join her for a program including works by the performer herself, as well as other contemporary harpist-composers such as Brandee Younger and Bernard Andrès.

This concert is made by possible by a grant from the American Harp Society, Inc.

Gloria Orozco Dorado

Clarinet Recital

Doctoral: MUS 925 – Solo

Monday, February 13, 2023 7:00p

Holsclaw Hall, $Free

David Russell Bach Prize Semifinals

Sunday, February 12, 3:00 p.m.

Holsclaw Hall, $Free

One of Tucson’s great treasures is the musical residency of the extraordinary David Russell at the University of Arizona. The Grammy Award-winning artist comes every year to teach and to perform, thanks to the legacy of Sandy Bolton. Russell also judges the David Russell Bach Prize Recital, which presents four top guitar students playing works of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Grammy Award-winning guitarist David Russell is the sole judge of the four finalists. In May 2014 Maestro Russell was bestowed the Honorary Doctoral Degree from the University of Arizona. About this competition, Russell wrote, “The wonderful music of J.S. Bach is satisfying on all levels: emotionally, intellectually, technically and historically. It has given me so much pleasure and happiness all through my life, that I want to encourage all the students to dedicate some valuable time of their important formative years at the university to studying his music. The competition will be a very good incentive for them to include some of Bach’s works in their repertoire that I hope will give them the same pleasure for their entire lives.”

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Eighth Annual Michael Moore Memorial Piano Competition

February 16, Thursday, 7:00 p.m.

Holsclaw Hall, $Free

This competition honors the memory of Michael Moore, a dedicated pianist-performer and alumnus of our school. Our undergraduate piano students will perform for generous scholarship awards. Join us for this exciting event as we celebrate the achievements of our talented young pianists.

Xuxiang Zou

Choral Conducting Recital

Doctoral: MUS 925 – Lecture

Thursday, February 16, 2023 7:30p

Crowder Hall, $Free

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Lucio Kyuhee Cho, Baritone

Founder/Artistic Director, Busan International Art Song Festival

Guest lecturer, Seoul National University

Chair, Lieder WindJohn Milbauer, Pianist

Professor of Piano and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs

Saturday, February 18th, 3 PM

Holsclaw Hall, $Free

“Lieder of Schumann, Brahms, and Wolf”

Enjoy an afternoon of German Romantic songs presented by renowned baritone Lucio Kyuhee Cho and Steinway Artist John Milbauer. Including the brooding texts of Michelangelo set by Hugo Wolf to the folk-infused radiance of Robert Schumann’s cycle on texts by Eichendorff, a special event for all lovers of art song.

Guest Artist Recital - David Russell, guitar

February 18, Saturday, 7:00 p.m.

February 19, Sunday, 3:00 p.m.

Holsclaw Hall

Tickets are $35, $30 for Guitar Society members (memberships run September to September). Students pay only $10 at the door.

https://www.tucsonguitarsociety.org/tickets

IMPORTANT NOTE: TGS sales end on Monday Feb. 13 so we can give our sales list to the UA Box Office which handles issuing of tickets via text. After the 13th, all online sales go through the Box Office at Centennial Hall.

“War and Peace” Symphonic Choir, Treble Glee and guests

Sunday, February 19, 2:00 p.m.

St. Mark’s United Methodist Church

1431 W. Magee Rd.

Free and open to the public

The University of Arizona Symphonic Choir will share a compelling program on themes of war and peace, including popular music of the Civil Rights era, excerpts from Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, and powerful works by Undine Smith Moore, Katerina Gimon, Carol Barnett, and John W. Work, Jr. The personal testimony of war refugees from Syria and Afghanistan who now reside in Tucson will be integrated with the musical works on this program. Treble Glee (Menga Jiang, conductor) will join Symphonic Choir for the closing piece. The concert also will incorporate movement choreographed by Professor Brent Gibbs of the UA School of Theatre, Film and Television. Symphonic Choir is under the direction of Dr. Elizabeth Schauer, and doctoral conductors Inho Eom and Jordan Shomper also will be featured on this dynamic program. A free will offering will be taken at the conclusion of the concert to benefit Doctors Without Borders.