DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center - Reid Park
Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 7:00 PM

PROGRAM

László Veres, Music Director/Conductor

SOLOISTS FROM THE ORCHESTRA
Anne Gratz, cello
Jessica Campbell, bassoon
Bluebeard - Paraphrase on the Operetta J. Offenbach, arr. R. Goehr
Oberon – Overture C.M. von Weber
The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals C. Saint-Säens
Anne Gratz, cello
Finian's Rainbow – Selections B. Lane – arr. R.R. Bennett
arr. C. Sayre

INTERMISSION
La Sorella – March on Mexican Themes C. Borel-Clerc
Remembrance P. Swerts
The Old Grumbly Bear J. Fučík – arr. A. Glover
Jessica Campbell, bassoon
Marvin Hamlisch in Concert arr. B. Lowden
Intermezzo from La Boda de Luis Alonso G. Giménez
Donated by László and Fran Veres
“America the Beautiful” S. Ward - arr. C. Dragon

Anne Gratz

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​Anne Gratz’s diverse performing schedule has taken her from China to Lincoln Center, with Tucson’s Hotel Congress and elementary school cafeterias in between. She is the principal cellist of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, True Concord Voices and Orchestra, and the Tucson Pops Orchestra. Anne is also a member of the Tucson Symphony String Quartet, with whom she performs for over 10,000 local elementary school students annually. She has also performed with St. Andrews Bach Society, ChamberLab, Artifact Dance Project, Broadway in Tucson, Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and Texas Festival Orchestra. Anne has been a part of a wide range of recordings, including True Concord’s Grammy-nominated album Far in the Heavens, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s first commercial recording, and Calexico’s Algiers. Her recent career highlights include a 9/11 memorial concert in New York City at Alice Tully Hall with True Concord Voices and Orchestra and her Tucson Symphony Orchestra concerto debut with Tan Dun’s Crouching Tiger Concerto. 

Anne maintains a full private cello studio in Tucson and has worked as a teacher and clinician with many local schools and music programs including Pima Community College, Tucson Junior Strings, and Chamber Music in the Mountains. A native of Indiana, Anne graduated as valedictorian from Interlochen Arts Academy and received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees and an Orchestral Studies Diploma from Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Alan Harris

Jessica Campbell

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Jessica Campbell has played third bassoon and contrabassoon with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra since 2008 and also performs with The Tucson Pops, the Arizona Opera, True Concord, and the Phoenix Symphony. As a soloist, Jessica has had the pleasure of performing the Mozart Bassoon Concerto (movement 1) with the Tucson Repertory Orchestra, the Gordon Jacob Bassoon Concerto with the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, and Carl Maria von Weber’s Andante e Rondo Ungarese with the University of Arizona Philharmonic Orchestra.
She received the Bachelor of Music degree from Columbus (GA) State University and the Master of Music degree from Florida State University, where she served as a teaching assistant. She currently teaches PreK through eighth grade at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School and teaches a studio of bassoonists and contrabassoonists in southern Arizona. Jessica maintains a bassoon/contrabassoon reed-making business with customers around the globe through her Etsy shop as well as Singin’ Dog Reeds. She also frequently coaches the Tucson Philharmonia Youth Orchestra bassoon section.
Jessica and her fiancee, Ben Yingst, have four cats: Belvedere, Iridessa, Pterodactyl, and Hank. Jessica and Ben enjoy playing on a bowling league together in their spare time