Enjoy an evening concert from the string section of the Denison Symphony Orchestra, featuring a wide range of string orchestral literature. The restrictions created by the COVID-19 pandemic have given us a special opportunity to explore this rich repertoire, including Felix Mendelssohn’s “Sinfonia No. 8”, which dates from his early …

Frederic Balazs, the Hungarian-born conductor who transformed the Tucson Symphony Orchestra into a formidable regional ensemble in the 1950s-60s, died Saturday, June 2 at Sierra del Sol Memory Care. Balazs was 98 and had been a resident of the care facility for just over a year. The TSO was largely …

The principal conductor of the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Sergey Smbatyan, issued a statement in response to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, a region claimed by both Armenia and neighboring Azerbaijan. Recent clashes between ethnic Armenians and Azeris in the region have left more than 300 dead. Supported by Turkish military …

Ernesto Estigabribia grew up in a small town in Paraguay playing the viola and that’s when he realized he wanted to be a conductor and hopefully inspire the younger generation of the same way he was when he was 11 years old. “Ever since I was a kid, I have …