EPSYO and EPSO ‘Side-by-Side’
Concert — Performers from El Paso
Symphony Youth Orchestras and El Paso
Symphony Orchestra combine forces at the 8th
annual Side-by-Side performance at 3 p.m.
March 29, at the Plaza Theatre, in conjunction
with Downtown KidsPalooza. Led by music
director Andy Moran, there will be 400 musicians from the El Paso Symphony, El Paso
Symphony Youth Orchestras, and Tocando
after school program playing pieces including
“Symphonic Dances from West Side Story,”
“Suite from the Firebird,” and “American
Hoedown.” Tickets: $15-$32 ($10-$17 student,
seniors, military). Information: 525-8978 or
epsyos.org.
UTEP Department of Music —
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. at Fox Fine Arts
Recital Hall. Tickets for most performances are
$5 ($3 seniors, military, non-UTEP students)
and free ages 6 and younger, UTEP students,
faculty and staff). Information: 747-5606 or
utep.edu/music.
A Faculty Recital Series, “Piazzolla on Reeds,”
with Oscar Macchioni, and Cara and Greg
Luffey is Wednesday, April 1. UTEP music
department’s newest faculty member, bassoonist Cara Luffey, saxophonist Greg Luffey and
Argentinean pianist Oscar Macchioni host an
evening of “nuevo tango” music including compositions by Astor Piazzolla. The concert will
culminate with a trio arrangement of “Cuatro
Estaciones Porteñas” (The Four Seasons of
Buenos Aires).
• UTEP Symphony Orchestra — Thursday,
April 2. The Orchestra under the direction of
Dr. Lowell E. Graham, will feature trumpet faculty members Nancy Taylor and Kenneth
Capshaw performing the Concerto for Two
Trumpets by Antonio Vivaldi. Other works are
by Liadov, van Beethoven, Griffes and Kodaly.
• Symphonic Winds — Tuesday, April 7, at
Fox Fine Art Recital Hall. Ron Hufstader leads
the Symphonic Winds in a night of classic band
literature.
• Percussion Ensemble and Pandemonium —
Monday, April 13. The celebrated steel drum
ensemble is under the direction of Professor
Larry White, and will feature contemporary
percussion literature, plus a mix of ragtime
favorites from the 1920’s. Pandemonium will
perform Caribbean favorites and classical
arrangements.
• Commercial Music Concert — Thursday,
April 23.
• UTEP Jazz Bands — Jazz I performance
Tuesday, April 28.
• UTEP Concert Band — Wednesday, April
29.
• Symphony Band — Thursday, April 30.
NMSU Department of Music — Recitals
are in the Atkinson Music Recital Hall at
NMSU. Ticket information: (575) 646-2421 or
nmsu.edu/~music.
• Trombone and Low Brass Studio concert is 6
p.m. Thursday, April 2.
• Percussion Ensemble recital is 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 14.
• String Area Recital is 5 p.m. Sunday, April
19.
• String Masterworks Concert is 7:30 p.m.
Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 25-26, with
the NMSU Choral Department.
• Jazz Band Concert is 3 p.m. Sunday, April
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• Flute Studio Recital is 7:30 p.m. Sunday,
April 26.
• Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band perform 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 28.
The Doña Ana Lyric Opera presents Handel’s
“Xerxes,” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through
Friday, April 15-17, with the NMSU
Philharmonic Orchestra.
Soovin Kim – El Paso Pro-Musica presents
the violinist performing The Complete Bach
Sonatas and Partitas at 7:30 p.m. Saturday,
April 4 at the Rio Grande Theatre, 211 N.
Main in Las Cruces, and Tuesday, April 7 at
UTEP’s Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall. Tickets: $25;
$20 seniors, military; $5 students. Information:
833-9400 or eppm.org.
Kim served as concertmaster of the World
Youth Orchestra at Michigan’s National Music
Camp at Interlochen while only 13 and 14
years old. Since the age of 21, Kim has won the
Henry Szeryng Career Award, an Avery Fisher
Career Grant and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust
Award.
LCSO with Zuill Bailey & Soovin Kim
— Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra, directed
by Lonnie Klein, presents guest artist Bailey
(cello) and Kim (violin) as part of its Classics
series at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday,
April 11-12, at NMSU’s Atkinson Music Recital
Hall. The evening featured the music of Mozart
and Brahms. Tickets: $35, $40 and
$45.Information: (575) 646-3709 or
lascrucessymphony.com.
Guest artist Natasha Pare ski, piano, performs
with the orchestra May 2-3, featuring the
music of Tchaikovsky.
Piano Recitals — The El Paso Music
Teachers Association Student Affiliate presents
piano and chamber music students in grades K12 in recitals starting at 1:30 p.m. Sunday,
April 12, at the Chamizal National Memorial,
800 S. San Marcial. Admission is free.
Information: 231-9581.
‘Written in the Stars’ – Santa Fe Opera
presents a light opera for the whole family at 3
p.m. Sunday, April 12, at Rio Grande Theatre,
211 Downtown Mall, Las Cruces. Admission is
free. Information: (575) 523-6403 or
RioGrandeTheatre.com.
The dramatic journey incorporates a number
of well-known musical works to explore operatic elements. When Melody, a composer with
writer’s block, meets Webster, who has a selfproclaimed gift for language. Webster
becomes, at various times, her muse, foil and
lover as they debate the question of what is
more important in opera – the words or the
music.
Gabrielle Fink — Grant County Community
Concert Association closes it season with the
violinist accompanied by pianist Irene Wong at
7 p.m. Thursday, April 16, at WNMU Fine
Arts Auditorium in Silver City. Tickets: $20 ($5
students 17 and younger). Information: (575)
538-5862 or gcconcerts.org.
El Paso Symphony Orchestra: ‘FinEsse’ — The Symphony, under direction of
maestro Bohuslav Rattay, performs its season
finale April 24-25, in the Plaza Theatre, with a
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