About Us
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Desert Camerata brings beautiful, challenging, and entertaining music to its audiences. We draw from chamber music through the centuries, art song, sonatas and small ensemble pieces, cantata, and even scenes from opera and music theater. We're not afraid to finish a concert with a folk tune or international hit, viewing music as a continuum whose validity for the "classical performer" never stopped in the early 1920's!
Our music is often laid out in surprising fashion to weave together stories from diverse compositions and to bring attention to the natural world that inspires all great music. We collaborate with artists, national parks, and theaters, as well as instrumental and vocal soloists. As vast and magnificent are the landscapes of Arizona, so do we aspire to offer a broad and unexpected musical experience! |
Who We Are |
We are an assorted and highly professional group of Arizona-based musicians that have come together to play stunning music. We offer up surprising combinations of repertoire that keep the audience engaged and moved with alternating instrumental and vocal music, and changing groupings of performers and soloists. We take special delight in being part of the Tucson local scene every bit as much as we're excited to travel to parks and other cities/concert halls with our petite but growing ensemble.
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Our History |
A pianist, a violinist, and a soprano met on a rainy day in the desert (and within that desert, a coffee shop with a piano)....it's very true, and they found that with no discussion, no words, no former relationship, they could bring to life a Vivaldi Cantata, on the spot! Music is a super-language, a universal one, whose immediacy far exceeds even the directness and import of speech. We were so inspired by our first and successive experiments that we received backing to establish ourselves as a trio and chamber ensemble. Desert Camerata also operates Tucson Classical Outreach and sends members to familiar and intimate venues where they can interact with and offer a platform to members of the Tucson public who themselves, might like to play music.
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