YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Erik Ochsner will return to lead the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra in its final three concerts of the season.
First up will be “Beethoven & Beyond,” a classical concert, at 2:30 Sunday, Jan. 19, at Stambaugh Auditorium.
Beethoven and the Italian-born French composer Luigi Cherubini, who is best known for his two Requiem masses, had long admired each other’s work.
The Jan. 19 YSO concert will feature two of Cherubini’s seldom-heard compositions: his overture to the opera “The Portuguese Inn” (1798) and his only Symphony (1815). Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 3 (1803) will also be performed.
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Ochsner will return Saturday, Feb. 15, to lead the YSO in “Shakespeare in Love: Romeo and Juliet” at 7:30 p.m. in Stambaugh Auditorium. Soprano singer Avery Boettcher will be the guest artist.
The concert will begin with Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture” and will also include arias by Gounod, Verdi, Puccini and other opera composers. It will conclude with Sergei Prokoviev’s selections from “Romeo and Juliet.”
The final show of the season will be a pops concert at 2:30 p.m. March 2 in Stambaugh Auditorium. Titled “Symphonic Superheroes,” the concert will include everything from Bernstein’s score to “The Magnificent Seven” to the music from the “Zelda” video game.
Ochsner, who has led the YSO on multiple occasions over the past several years, is one of the leading film-with-live-orchestra conductors.
He is the founder and music director of SONOS Chamber Orchestra (New York City).
He led the YSO in “Ghostbusters Live in Concert”; “Musical Titans,” featuring the music of Strauss, Mozart and Mahler; “Home Alone Live in Concert”; “Unknown and Gorgeous: River and Iron,” featuring the music of Copland, Kapp, Boyer, Picker and Respighi; a concert alongside the rock band The Vindys; and, most recently, “Back to the Future Live in Concert.”
Pictured at top: Erik Ochsner. (Photo by Konstantin Gribov)