PORT ANGELES — Mozart and Mahler will be highlighted at the Port Angeles Symphony concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Guest conductor Meena Hwang of Seoul, South Korea, will lead the orchestra in Mozart’s Overture to “The Magic Flute” at the Port Angeles High School Performing Arts Center, 304 E. Park Ave.
The concert will be preceded by a pre-concert chat with Port Angeles Symphony conductor and music director Jonathan Pasternack at 6:40 p.m.
The Symphony’s final dress rehearsal is open to the public at 10 a.m.
It’s also at the high school Performing Arts Center, with admission at $7 per person.
Tickets to the evening concert range from $15 to $35.
Outlets include The Joyful Noise Music Center in downtown Sequim and Port Book and News in downtown Port Angeles.
Tickets also will be sold at the door, and 16 and younger will be admitted free with a paying adult.
Pasternack describes Hwang — who conducts at her country’s most prestigious music conservatory, the Korean National Arts University — as a “born Mozartean.”
Hwang also will conduct Mozart’s Concerto for Oboe in C major featuring another guest artist, Grammy award-winning oboist Alex Klein of Calgary, Alberta.
The second half of the concert will be the finale: Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony in D major, the “Titan,” conducted by Pasternack.
“The sheer size of the ensemble required for the Mahler is larger than anything I’ve led in Port Angeles so far, with more than 80 musicians being assembled on the stage,” he said.
This concert is part of the Port Angeles Symphony’s 86th season.
For tickets and information about this and forthcoming performances in Port Angeles and Sequim, see Port AngelesSymphony.org, visit the symphony’s Facebook page or call the office at 360-457-5579.
Meena Hwang
