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He was in the audience last year and it鈥檚 a safe bet had he been hired to the top job at the University of Arizona in January of 2017, not April, he would have been in the audience for that performance, too.

Robbins is a big fan of the arts, so much so that he recently created a vice president for the arts to promote performing and visual arts on campus. So we can only imagine how thrilled he will be to see the talent coming out of the Fred Fox School of Music.

The President鈥檚 Concert gives the public a chance to see and hear from some of the school鈥檚 brightest stars. The soloists are all winners of the school鈥檚 annual concerto competition for voice and instruments.

everything you need to know about the President鈥檚 Concert:

• When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, and Saturday, Feb. 2.
• Where: Crowder Hall, North Park Avenue and East Speedway, at the UA Fred Fox School of Music.
• Cost: $10 general, $7 UA employees and seniors 55 and older, $5 students at the door or online at

The soloists:

• Flutist Ivo Dae-Seong Shin de Souza 鈥� Ivo Shin for short 鈥� will perform the first movement of Mozart鈥檚 Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major. The Brazilian native, who started playing the flute at age 13, is a second-year master鈥檚 student in flute performance and is a member of the Fred Fox Graduate Wind Quintet.
• Soprano Erika Burkhart, a regular with True Concord Voices & Orchestra, will sing the 鈥淧oison Aria鈥� from Gounod鈥檚 鈥淩om茅o et Juliette.鈥� Burkhart, a master鈥檚 student in vocal performance, will sing the role of Le Prince Charmant in the UA鈥檚 spring opera, Massenet鈥檚 鈥淐endrillon.鈥�
• Pianist Minjun Dong, a second-year doctoral student in piano performance, will perform the first movement of Tchaikovsky鈥檚 Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor. Dong, who earned his master鈥檚 degree studying with Jon Nakamatsu at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, began studying piano as a 3-year-old growing up in his native China.
• Cellist Diana Yusupov will perform Erich Wolfgang Korngold鈥檚 Cello Concerto in C major. Yusupov began playing cello when she was 8. She continued lessons with her father, the renowned Uzbeki/Australian cellist Renat Yusupov, when the family immigrated to Australia in 2003. In addition to working toward her doctoral degree, Yusupov is the assistant orchestra director at Tucson High Magnet School and teaches cello for the University of Arizona String Project.