Francisco Fullana

Francisco Fullana is a violinist who appears with symphony orchestras as a concerto soloist. In this Tulsa Symphony program, he performs Arturo Márquez's Fandango for Violin and Orchestra, a work built on Mexican dance rhythms, alongside Bacewicz's Overture and Beethoven's Fourth Symphony.

Listeners can expect Fullana to bring clean, precise technique to Márquez's Fandango, a piece that draws on Mexican dance rhythms and folk-inflected melody, alternating between lyrical, singing lines and sections of rhythmic drive. The Fandango asks a soloist to shift color and energy quickly, moving from tender passages to virtuosic, syncopated dance figures that echo mariachi and son styles. This is a relatively new addition to the violin concerto repertoire, so much of the interest lies in how a soloist balances its folk roots with its concert-hall polish. Expect rhythmic clarity, warm tone in the slower sections, and an emphasis on the dance pulse that runs through the piece rather than pure technical display for its own sake.