Recital: Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano featuring a World Premiere by Gregory Spears
Schedule
Tue, 07 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Holsclaw Hall | Tucson, AZ
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Jennifer Johnson Cano undertakes an impressive balance of operatic, orchestral, and chamber performances each season. With credentials too numerous to list, her performances range from the Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, and Philadelphia Orchestra to Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and more than 100 performances on stage with the Metropolitan Opera.A seasoned recitalist, orchestra soloist, and collaborative pianist, Christopher Cano has performed throughout the US, Mexico, Israel, Europe and the Far East. Mr. Cano has prepared singers for appearances with the world's leading opera companies. As a collaborative pianist, Mr. Cano has appeared at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. In 2017, Mr. Cano was appointed as the Head of Music and Director of the Marion Roose Pullin Opera Studio of Arizona Opera and promoted to the position of Director of Artistic Operations in 2022. He currently holds the position of Director of the Cafritz Young Artists and American Opera Initiative of Washington National Opera.
This exciting program will include the World Premiere of a new song cycle by lauded American composer Gregory Spears, commissioned by the Tucson Desert Song Festival. Spears is a New York-based composer whose music has been called “astonishingly beautiful” (The New York Times), “coolly entrancing” (The New Yorker), and “some of the most beautifully unsettling music to appear in recent memory” (The Boston Globe). His opera The Righteous, written in collaboration with former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, was shortlisted for an International Opera Award in 2024 and was named a New York Times “Critic’s Pick.”
Presented in partnership with True Concord Voices & Orchestra
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Holsclaw Hall, 1040 E Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85719, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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