DeKALB – The CSA Sinfonia performs the music of Brahms and Tchaikovsky at its first concert of the season at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24 in the Concert Hall of the Northern Illinois University Music Building.  The concert is free and open to the public. 

Sponsored by the NIU Community School of the Arts, this audition-only orchestra attracts some of the best high school musicians in the region. On the program is Tragic Overture, Op. 81, by Johannes Brahms, Elegy by Richard Faith, Palladio, Concerto Gross for String Orchestra by Karl Jenkins, and Symphony No. 4 in F Major by Peter Tchaikovsky.

The work features two talented violinists who are seniors at DeKalb High School.  Genevieve Smelser and Hanna Bingham have both been members of CSA Sinfonia for many years.