Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra is hosting a guest behind the podium and behind the ivories when it tackles Beethovenβs evocative Sixth Symphony βPastoralβ and Rachmaninoffβs breathtakingly challenging Third Piano Concerto.
Paraguayβs globe-trotting conductor Diego SΓ‘nchez Haase will step in for Maestro Linus Lerner, whoβs also quite the globe-trotter, for two concerts β Saturday, Nov. 18, in SaddleBrooke, and Sunday, Nov. 19, in Oro Valley. Lerner is in Mexico conducting the San Miguel de Allende Opera Festival before he returns to his native Brazil, where he is the music director of the Symphony Orchestra of Rio Grande do Norte in Natal. Heβs back at the podium with SASO in late January for the orchestraβs annual Chinese New Yearβs concert with the Tucson Sino Choir.
Haase, music director and conductor of Orquesta SinfΓ³nica del Congreso Nacional del Paraguay and the Bach Collegium AsunciΓ³n, is making his Tucson debut, but the Tbilisi, Georgia-born pianist Yelena Beriyeva for the past dozen years has been a regular on Tucson stages even as she carves out a career that has included performances throughout Europe, Russia and South America.
In addition to the Rach 3 and βPastoral,β the volunteer SASO will perform Rossiniβs Overture to βWilliam Tell.β
Performances are at:
- 7:30 p.m. Saturday at SaddleBrooke’s DesertView Performing Arts Center, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive; $24 in advance through tickets.saddlebrooketwo.com or $25 at the door.
- 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 7575 N. Del Norte Paseo in Oro Valley; $23 in advance at sasomusic.org or at the door.
Details: sasomusic.org
