Guest conductor Andres Lopera will lead the ESO in Dvorák’s Carnival Overture, Wynton Marsalis’ Violin Concerto, and Elgar’s Enigma Variations.
The Elgin Symphony Orchestra will usher in its 73rd season with a program featuring music of Antonin Dvorak, Wynton Marsalis, and Sir Edward Elgar. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9, at the Hemmens Cultural Center, 45 Symphony Way, Elgin.
Guest conductor Andres Lopera, who is in his fourth season as associate conductor of the Columbus Symphony and music director of the Columbus Youth Symphony Orchestra, will lead the ESO in Dvorák’s Carnival Overture, Wynton Marsalis’ Violin Concerto, and Elgar’s Enigma Variations.
Lopera is a candidate, along with several other conductors this season, for the open music director position at the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, a position slated to be filled in the summer of 2023.
Acclaimed by The New York Times as “the versatile violinist who makes the music come alive” and featured in the Smithsonian Museum of African American history, Kelly Hall-Tompkins will be featured on Marsalis’ Violin Concerto.
Tickets are available at the ESO Box Office, 20 DuPage Court, Elgin, or by phone at (847) 888-4000, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tickets may also be purchased online at ElginSymphony.org.
Tickets start at $20. Student tickets are $10, and youth 17 and under are free with a paying adult. Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more.
