Tucson pianist brings 'War and Peace' to Bach Society series

After its July recess, St. Andrew’s 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 “War and Peace” on Sunday, Aug. 11.

The performance at Grace St. Paul’s 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 Glass’s mysteriously sweeping song “Dead Things” from the 2002 Academy Award-wining psychological drama “The Hours” and Franz Liszt’s solo piano arrangement of Saint-Saëns’ symphonic poem “Dance Macabre.”

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Lin rounds out the program with Russian composer Alexander Scriabin’s Sonata No. 1 in F minor, George Crumb’s virtuosic and dissonant “Tora! Tora! Tora!” and Chopin’s expressive Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor.

Sunday’s concert begins at 2 p.m. Reserved seats are sold out; general admission tickets are $16 through standrewsbach.org.

St. Andrew’s Bach Society closes its summer series on Aug. 25 with “Trio Masterpieces,” featuring violinist Lauren Roth, cellist Juan David Mejia and pianist Evan Kory. Details at standrewsbach.org.