Yavapai Symphony Association 2024-2025 Classical Season
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Sun, Sept 8 | 3pm
Our classical music favorite for over 50 years, The Phoenix Symphony returns to Prescott to inaugurate the 2024-2025 Concert Season. Their 1992 album of the music of Aaron Copland received an ECHO Award, continental Europe’s equivalent of the Grammy award.
Sunny Xuecong Xia, Conductor. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to Cosi fan tutte; Franz Schubert: Symphony #5 in B-flat Major; Ludwig von Beethoven: Symphony #4 in B-flat MajorMichelle
EMANUEL AX - PIANO
Thurs, Oct 22 | 7pm
Emanuel Ax is an internationally acclaimed Grammy Award-winning American classical pianist. For 50 years, he has been the main recital partner of Yo-Yo Ma, and since 1990 has been on the faculty on the Juilliard School of Music in New York.
Ludwig von Beethoven – Sonata Op. 27 No. 1 Quasi una Fantasia; John Corigliano – Fantasia on an Ostinato; Ludwig von Beethoven – Sonata Op. 27 No. 2 Quasi una Fantasia “Moonlight”
MICHELLE CANN - PIANO
Tues, Nov 19 | 7pm
Lauded as a pianist of sterling artistry by Gramophone magazine, Michelle Cann has become one of the most sought-after pianists of her generation. She made her debut with The Philadelphia Orchestra in 2021 and has since performed with many of the prominent American symphony orchestras.
Frédéric Chopin – Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47; Joel Thompson – My Dungeon Shook, Three American Preludes (mvt. 11 and 111); William Grant Still – A Deserted Plantation – Spiritual; William Grant Still – A Deserted Plantation – Young Missy; William Grant Still – A Deserted Plantation – Dance; Franz Liszt – Mephisto Waltz No. 1, S. 514
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Thurs, Jan 16 | 7pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Quartet No.21 in D Major, K.575; Felix Mendelssohn – Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44, No. 2; Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11
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Sat, Feb 8 | 3pm
A favorite of our patrons, The ASU Symphony Orchestra returns to perform a challenging and diverse program. Watch this orchestra and its young performers as they engage with the major works of the orchestral canon.
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Tues, Feb 18 | 7pm
Georg Philipp Telemann – Don Quixote Suite (selections); Johann Sebastian Bach – Menuet & Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No. 2; Johann Sebastian Bach – Concerto for Two Violins; Johann Sebastian Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 5; Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for Four Violins
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Tues, May 20 | 7pm
Ferde Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite; Aaron Copland: El Salón México; Arturo Márquez: Fandango Violin Concerto