Xian Zhang Conducts Mozart

Principal Timpanist Gregory LaRosa takes the spotlight in a program devoted to Mozart’s genius, framed by two of his most beloved symphonies, No. 29 and the famed Jupiter, his final and most triumphant symphony. Between them, the East Coast premiere of Joseph Pereira’s Virtu, a New Jersey Symphony co-commissioned concerto for timpani and string orchestra, gives the orchestra’s own principal timpanist a rare turn in the spotlight. Xian Zhang conducts. Performed in Newark.