Tucson Desert Song Festival

About the Event

Join us as we celebrate the human voice and bring the world’s great vocal artists to beautiful Tucson, Arizona.

The Tucson Desert Song Festival provides a world-class experience for music enthusiasts and novices alike—of enjoyment, education, and interaction with acclaimed classical voices singing with some of Tucson’s leading performing arts groups.

It’s the Tucson Desert Song Festival—a unique blend of glorious singing in orchestral, chamber, choral, and solo formats along with related lectures and master classes in the warmth and charm of Arizona’s renowned Sonoran Desert resort region.

Schedule of Events:

7:00 pm: Caity Gyorgy with her piano trio Anthony D’Alessandro, piano, Thomas Hainbuch, bass, & Jacob Wutzke, drums

Caity Gyorgy is a two-time JUNO award-winning Canadian vocalist known for singing bebop and swing music. She has performed at jazz clubs and festivals across Canada, Mexico, Japan, and the USA and has worked and recorded with incredible musicians including Christine Jensen, Pat LaBarbera, Jocelyn Gould, Ira Coleman, Bryn Roberts, and Joe LaBarbera, to name a few. In addition to being a performer, Caity is an avid writer and composes songs in the style of the Great American Songbook. Her compositions have been sung by other vocalists around the world and have won multiple awards, including the Grand Prize in the jazz category of the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Her most recent album, Hello! How Are You?, released in August 2024, features Caity accompanied by her regular piano trio with Anthony D’Alessandro on piano, Thomas Hainbuch on bass, and Jacob Wutzke on drums.

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Location: The Century Room

7:30 pm: Mahler’s Third Symphony with Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano

One of the brightest stars on the operatic stage and a Tucson favorite, internationally recognized mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke returns to the TSO for a riveting performance of Mahler’s colossal third symphony. Organized over six movements, the work is the composer’s hymn to nature and one of his most complete musical statements. José Luis Gomez, conductor.

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Location: Linda Ronstadt Music Hall

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