Pima Community College is casting the cello in a starring role for "An Afternoon of Cello" featuring cellist Judith Pottle, pianist Sharlyn Matthews and clarinetist Robert Sladky .
The trio on Sunday will perform Max Reger's rarely performed "Suite No. 1 for Cello Solo," Vally Weigl's "New England Suite" and Chopin's Sonata for Cello and Piano .
The performance celebrates Pottle's return to Tucson and to the cello, an instrument from which she took a 35-year hiatus, according to press materials. Pottle studied under Gordon Epperson, the University of Arizona's late cello prof. A retired psychologist from New York, she is now attending Pima, where she is completing an associate's degree in music.
Matthews and Sladky are both retired symphony musicians.
Sunday's performance begins at 3 p.m. at PCC Center for the Arts Recital Hall, 2202 W. Anklam Road. Tickets are $6 with discounts available; 206-6986.
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The Arizona Choral Society explores choral masterpieces from the Renaissance through the 20th century in its spring concert Sunday in Green Valley.
The society is a multi-generational choral group whose members hail from throughout Southern Arizona. Jonathan Ng conducts the group, which also will perform several Lenten seasonal works, mostly a cappella with some organ and string orchestra accompaniment.
Composers represented include Beethoven, Bruckner, Elgar, Farrant, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Paulus, Stanford, Tallis and John Rutter.
The concert begins at 3:30 p.m. at Valley Presbyterian Church, 2800 S. Camino del Sol, Green Valley. Tickets are $8 in advance through the ACS Web site, www.azchoral.org; or $10 at the door.
Violinist Gil Shaham has the peer recognition and critical acclaim to rightfully claim his place alongside the world's greatest living violinists.
In fact, Shaham got his big break in 1989 when he was called on a day's notice to replace Itzhak Perlman for a series of London Symphony Orchestra concerts, under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas. He was 18 years old and critics raved that about his mature playing on both the Bruch and Sibelius violin concertos.
On Thursday, Shaham joins the conductor-less string ensemble Sejong for a concert of works by Haydn at Centennial Hall. The performance wraps up UApresents' classical music series.
Artistic Director Hyo Kang envisioned Sejong as a "cultural ambassador," comprising distinguished solo and chamber musicians from Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the United States. The ensemble, formed in 1995, is renowned for its musical cohesiveness and its beautiful, pristine sound.
Shaham will join them to perform Haydn's Violin Concerto in G and his Concerto in C in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the composer's death. The program also tips its hat to Mendelssohn in honor of the 200th anniversary of that composer's birth with a performance of his Octet.
Shaham is among several noted violin soloists to join the ensemble. His current tour with the group comes months after he won the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, awarded to him in the middle of a New York concert by his friend the Los Angeles Philharmonic's incoming conductor Gustavo Dudamel.
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd. Tickets are $25-$60 through www.uapresents.com; 621-3341.
