May 03 Friday
Join Branan Harrison (violin), Emma Riebe (cello), and Henry Mauser (piano) for a performance of the profoundly charming Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in Bb major at 7pm on Friday, May 3rd at the Church of the Nativity. Despite being composed in the last years of Schubert’s life, fellow composer Robert Schumann described the work in these words: “One glance at Schubert's Trio (Op. 99) and the troubles of our human existence disappear and all the world is fresh and bright again.”
This concert is the next installment of the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra Max Jerrell Community Concert Series, free and open-to-the-public chamber concerts held in the Flagstaff community. Join us at 7pm on Friday, May 3rd at the Church of the Nativity Downtown (16 W. Cherry Ave.)
May 04 Saturday
Featuring Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Paganini's Violin Concerto #1, Anderson's The Typewriter, Coleridge-Taylor's Petite Suite de Concert and Jaxson's Through the Bay.
May 05 Sunday
Join the NAU Symphony Orchestra and the 2024 Concerto Competition Winners for an afternoon of celebration under the direction of Daniel O’Bryant. May 5 at 3 PM in Ardrey Auditorium. Featuring: Gershwin “An American in Paris,” Ravel’s “Bolero,” Creston’s “Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra,” with soloist Joseph Pajkos, and Waignein’s “Rhapsody for Saxophone and Orchestra,” with soloist Patrick Rubalcava.
May 18 Saturday
May 26 Sunday
A new ensemble of forty musicians, the Phoenix Festival Orchestra, conducted by Jeffrey Meyer, will perform Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, Carlos Simon’s Fate Now Conquers, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A Major. This is the final in a series of seven solo, chamber, and orchestral concerts presented in 2023–24 by the Yavapai Symphony Association, now in its 57th season.