“Our dynamic season opener begins by honoring the industrial history of our region, featuring Stacey Garrop’s Forging Steel, premiered by the Pittsburgh Symphony and performed with a specially curated version of the 1992 Guggenheim film of Mill workers in the Cambria Iron Works Machine Shop. Next, we celebrate the role of technology and innovation in our region with Automation, a composition that places the cello soloist against an AI version of itself, blurring the lines of technology and human creativity. On the second half, we perform Rachmaninoff’s extraordinary Symphonic Dances, his final orchestral masterpiece, composed in America in 1940.”

One of the most sought-after musicians of our generation, three-time GRAMMY® nominated violinist Curtis Stewart, makes his JSO debut performing Julia Perry’s long-neglected yet strikingly beautiful violin concerto. Also experience an early choral work from Perry, Ye Who Seek the Truth, and on the second half, Brahms’s future-looking and culminating achievement of symphonic form, his Symphony No. 4 in E Minor.

I will be playing tenor saxophone on the Julia Perry concerto

The program features many selections about love, from a swing-centered big band first half to Sinatra favorites such as “Fly Me to the Moon,” “My Way,” and “The Lady is a Tramp.” Slowing it down a little, the lush symphony POPS orchestra will perform “Lara’s Theme,” “In a Sentimental Mood,” and “The Way You Look Tonight,” The audience will find themselves humming along to familiar tune after familiar tune during this light-hearted romantic night out with the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra. In order to allow patrons plenty of time to patronize area restaurants, the JSO is pausing the pre-concert conversation series “An Invitation to the Music with James Blachly,” but will continue the new tradition of welcoming the audience with music in the lobby before the concert.

Featured vocalist Charles Wesley Evans has received high praise for his performances across the country. The New York Times calls him "An elegant, mellifluous and expressive baritone.” Combined with his screen idol good looks and outstanding stage presence, this will be an evening to remember.

American premiere of La lutte pour la lumiere by Jean-Patrick Besingrand

A program of music and poetry that explores the complex worlds of introversion and extroversion and what goes on in between.

Music by Mark Andre, Dave Reminick, Anthony Donofrio, Erin Rogers and Alex Mincek.

Poetry by Kazim Ali, Amy Alvarez, Camille Rankin and more.

Poetry will be read by the one and only, Amy Alvarez.

Performing Henri Tomasi’s Concerto with the West Virginia University Symphony Orchestra as a winner of the 2019 WVU Young Artists Competition.

Izanami - Jean-Patrick Besingrand

Interfere - Anthony Donofrio

Blanquette, Le Chévre de Monsieur Seguin - Eliane Aberdam (world premiere)

The North American premiere of Izanami by Jean-Patrick Besingrand.

Repertoire by Brahms, Lauba, Muczynski, Telemann & Tomasi.

I will be performing some of my favorite works written after 2000 by composers such as Besingrand, Fujikura, Jodlowski, Labadie, and Zoulek.

Please join me before the performance for an open discussion about life as a saxophonist, graduate student, chamber music, and whatever may come to mind.

Performing the Tomasi Concerto as a finalist in the ECSO Young Artists Competition.

Performing works written after 2000 for solo saxophone by Besingrand, Fujikura, Jodlowski, Labadie and Zoulek.

There will be a small reception following the performance.

Performing my first DMA recital consisting of an all tenor saxophone program. Works by Besingrand, Fujikura, Jodlowski and Labadie.

Performing Sakana by Dai Fujikura and Mixtion by Pierre Jodlowski in George Mason University's Harris Theater.

Performing George Friedrich Haas' Quartet & Hyperbaton by Alex Buess on Justin Massey's DMA Recital.