Pianist Tomoko Kanamaru will be featured in Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1.”

The Toledo Symphony Orchestra will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, in Winebrenner Theological Seminar, featuring Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1.” The performance is the season finale of The University of Findlay’s 2007-2008 Concert and Lecture Series. The concert is made possible, in part, through the sponsorship of Marathon Petroleum LLC.

Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for senior citizens and $10 for students. Admission for UF undergraduate and graduate students is free, but a ticket is required. UF faculty and staff may purchase tickets for $15. Tickets may be purchased by calling the UF Box Office at 419-434-5335.

Chelsea Tipton II, in his fifth season with the Toledo Symphony, will conduct the orchestra. Tipton appears regularly with major orchestras throughout the United States. For his Carnegie Hall conducting debut in September 2007, Tipton participated in the Sphinx Competition showcase gala concert. In addition, he promotes emerging African American and Hispanic artists in classical music and encourages young musicians to explore the world of classical music through performance.

The concert will include “Overture to Egmont” by Ludwig van Beethoven and “Symphony No. 4 Italian” by Felix Mendelssohn.

The soloist for the “Piano Concerto No. 1” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is pianist Tomoko Kanamaru, who has performed on concert stages in the United States, Canada, Europe, Canada and Japan since her first solo appearance with a professional orchestra in Tokyo at the age of nine. In addition to other academic achievements, Kanamaru earned a doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

The 2008-2009 Concert and Lecture Series will begin Sept. 12 with a Pops Concert performed by the Toledo Symphony Orchestra.