Mozart’s Requiem will be performed this Saturday by the Salt Lake Vocal Artists along with a youth choir made up of the Salt Lake Choral Artists’ Youth Honor Choir and a High School Festival Choir consisting of singers from the American Preparatory Academy, Bear River High School and Paradigm High School. They’ll be joined by Jack Ashton’s Young Artist Chamber Players. Soloists will be Tara Wardle, Valerie Hart Nelson, Tyler Nelson and Christopher Holmes.

The concert takes place Saturday at 2 p.m. in Libby Gardner Concert Hall on the University of Utah campus. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 for students and available online at www.saltlakechoralartists.org or at the door the afternoon of the performance.

The Salt Lake Choral Artists, under music director Brady Allred, will give their first performance of Robert Shaw’s English edition of Johannes Brahms’ A German Requiem on Saturday. Joining them will be the SLCA Orchestra and soloists Carol Ann Allred, soprano, and Tyler Oliphant, baritone.

Brady Allred

The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. and takes place in Libby Gardner Concert Hall on the University of Utah campus. Tickets are $20 for general admission and $10 for students and available online at www.saltlakechoralartists.org or at the door on the night of the performance.

In an email to Reichel Recommends, Brady Allred wrote: “As a member of the Robert Shaw Festival Singers for six years, I recall him saying about the Brahms Requiem, ‘I want you to know that this work was written to celebrate life, not to lament death, that it was written in the vernacular rather than Latin so it would be accessible to all and that when you sing it, you will have a connection with everyone who has ever sung it before or will sing it in the future.’”

In the same email, Allred had this to say about the work: “This is a Requiem for humankind; it deals with universal problems in a universal language.

“Brahms’ music is a poetry of joy that celebrates the loss of death’s sting by drawing us into a nonverbal experience of comfort, confidence and hope.”