Classical Music’s Best Converge on La Jolla for Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra Festival

The Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra comes together each year in San Diego and the artistry, focused on classical music’s finest works, begins Thursday.

The orchestra, led by Maestro Michael Francis, will perform six unique concerts at two La Jolla venues, the new Epstein Family Amphitheater – Thursday and Saturday, then June 27 and 29 – with two shows at The Conrad in between, on June 23 and 25.

This year’s orchestra roster includes concertmasters and principal players from 30 orchestras, including the San Diego Symphony.

Other featured companies include the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Delaware Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, LA Phil, LNational Symphony Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Oaks Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Tucson Symphony Orchestra and Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

Soloists set for the festival include Georgi Li performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, Erica Petrocelli from the LA Opera and acclaimed opera singer Babatunde Akinboboye, Robert DeMaine, principal cellist of the LA Phil, on Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra by Gulda and violinist Stefan Jackiw.

Programs, naturally, include Mozart, but also Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Gabriel Fauré.

Tickets, available online, will be sold in singles and packages. Packages range from two shows to all six. General admission prices start at $25.