YOUNGSTOWN, OH (January 10, 2025): Your Youngstown Symphony Orchestra (YSO) welcomes conductor Erik Ochsner to finish the 24 / 25
season. Ochsner will conduct Beethoven & Beyond on Sunday, January 19, Shakespeare In Love on Saturday, February 15, and Symphonic Superheroes on Sunday, March 2, all at Stambaugh Auditorium.

Beethoven & Beyond will be Ochsner’s seventh time conducting the YSO. Ochsner has been on the podium with the YSO for the films: Ghostbusters in 2022, Home Alone in 2023, and Back to the Future in 2024. He has also conducted the YSO in March 2023, March 2024, and April 2024.

Ochsner attended The Pierre Monteux School, is a graduate of Dartmouth College and is a proud Finnish American dual citizen. He is considered by audiences and critics alike to be one of the leading film-with-live-orchestra conductors due to his energy, attention to detail and precise synchronization. He is equally comfortable on the concert stage or leading opera, oratorio and multimedia performances.

Beethoven & Beyond is a concert that blends selections from Ludwig van Beethoven and Luigi Cherubini. This concert follows these two contemporaries who diverged from one another in style. In addition to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, the concert will feature the Overture from Cherubini’s L’hôtellerie portugaise (The Portuguese Inn) as well as his Symphony in D Major.

“I really am excited to perform Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 3 with the wonderful musicians of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra”, stated Ochsner. “I have always been passionate about bringing new pieces of music to both audience members and musicians alike, like last year’s Unknown and Gorgeous: River and Iron concert. This will be the very first time that the YSO will play any music by Italian composer Luigi Cherubini (Beethoven’s favorite living composer).”

Tickets are available by calling the box office at 330-259-9651 or visiting youngstownsymphony.com. The box office is open Monday through Friday, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Tickets are also available 24 hours a day at: youngstownsymphony.com.