MOZART'S GREATEST HITS
Join us for a dazzling celebration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s most beloved masterpieces! This unforgettable concert features three iconic works that showcase the genius, charm, and emotional depth of one of history’s greatest composers.
✨ Program Highlights✨
- Serenade (Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K.525) – A sparkling piece full of grace and vitality.
- Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat Major, K.495 – Featuring guest soloist Lee Shirer on French Horn, delivering Mozart’s playful and lyrical brilliance.
- Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K.201 – A youthful symphony bursting with elegance and energy.
Whether you’re a lifelong classical music lover or discovering Mozart for the first time, this concert promises an evening of joy, sophistication, and musical magic.
featured guests
Lee Shirer, French Horn
tickets
Adult – $32 General Admission
Youth* – $16 General Admission
Processing fees included in price.
*Youth – ages 6-17 years
SAT. FEBRUARY 28, 2026
First Congregational Church
2001 Niles Ave | St. Joseph, MI 49085
EVENT SCHEDULE
6:00 PM – Doors open
6:30 PM – FREE Pre-Concert Conversation with Maestro Aubin (30 min)
7:30 PM – Concert (90 min)
Program Schedule
A free 30-minute pre-concert conversation with Maestro Matthew Aubin that delves into the concert’s featured musical works and composers. Affectionately called in-house as “Matt Chats,” these short sessions always enhance the evening’s experience for concert-goers. This special feature is available prior to each classical concert.
Musicians will already be on stage making a flurry of sound as they fine tune instruments and warm up with last minute practice of musical snippets or scales.
Signaling the start of the concert, a representative from the Symphony will come out on stage to welcome and greet our guests and thank our sponsors and supporters before turning the stage over to our Concertmaster, Musicians, and Conductor.
Mozart’s genius for creating the slight as well as the sublime is demonstrated handily by the works on this program. The serenade, Eine kleine Nachtmusik – one of the composer’s most felicitous (and famous) “little” pieces – is a bon-bon of the most delectable kind.
Composed for virtuoso horn player Joseph Leutgeb, Mozart’s Fourth Horn Concerto is one his most colourful. So colourful that Mozart actually penned the score in red, green, blue and black ink! There are two potential reasons for the extra colour…
Mozart composed his sparkling Symphony in A, K. 201, early in 1774, about the time he turned 18. He had just returned from a visit with his father to Vienna, where he had heard the latest works of Haydn and others, and the experience seems to have inspired him to write a number of important new works…