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The Youngstown Symphony Orchestra will play works by Ludwig van Beethoven and Sergei Rachmaninoff for a Masterworks concert Sunday at Stambaugh Auditorium.
Lawrence Loh will guest conduct the orchestra for the second time this season. He also led the opening concert with Thorgy Thor.
Loh is music director of Symphoria, the successor to the Syracuse (N.Y.) Symphony.
He was appointed assistant conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony in 2005 and rose to associate and resident conductor within his first three years there. He frequently returns to Pittsburgh to conduct the PSO.
He previously served as music director of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra and Denver Young Artists Orchestra; associate conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Colorado Symphony Orchestra and artistic director and principal conductor of the Syracuse Opera.
Loh -- who received his artist diploma in orchestral conducting from Yale, his masters in choral conducting from Indiana University and a bachelor's degree from University or Rochester -- has assisted composer John Williams on multiple occasions and has worked with a wide range of pops artists from Chris Botti and Ann Hampton Calloway to Jason Alexander and Idina Menzel.
The YSO program will feature Quinn Mason's "Toast of the Town," Beethoven's -- Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 and Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, Op. 45.
The concert starts at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Stambaugh, 1000 Fifth Ave., Youngstown. Tickets range from $12 to $43 and are available online at experienceyourarts.org and by calling 330-259-9651.