After its July recess, St. Andrewβs Bach Society is restarting its 2024 summer concert series with Tucson pianist Fanya Lin performing a recital that she took to her native Taiwan in June.
Lin, a regular on Tucson stages and a professor in the University of Arizona School of Music, will perform her powerful solo concert βWar and Peaceβ on Sunday, Aug. 11.
The performance at Grace St. Paulβs Episcopal Church, 2331 E. Adams St., is the first of two summer concerts she will perform in Tucson. On Aug. 21, she joins Tucson Symphony Orchestra principal flutist Sasha Lipay for an Arizona Friends of Chamber Music recital including works by Bach, Schubert and Brahms.
Her recital on Sunday is bookended by avant garde composer Philip Glassβs mysteriously sweeping song βDead Thingsβ from the 2002 Academy Award-wining psychological drama βThe Hoursβ and Franz Lisztβs solo piano arrangement of Saint-SaΓ«nsβ symphonic poem βDance Macabre.β
Lin rounds out the program with Russian composer Alexander Scriabinβs Sonata No. 1 in F minor, George Crumbβs virtuosic and dissonant βTora! Tora! Tora!β and Chopinβs expressive Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor.
Sundayβs concert begins at 2 p.m. Reserved seats are sold out; general admission tickets are $16 through standrewsbach.org.
St. Andrewβs Bach Society closes its summer series on Aug. 25 with βTrio Masterpieces,β featuring violinist Lauren Roth, cellist Juan David Mejia and pianist Evan Kory. Details at standrewsbach.org.