Clinton Symphony Orchestra’s former music director and conductor has been invited back for a “farewell” concert this weekend, closing the orchestra’s 72nd season.
Brian Dollinger, who served with the orchestra from 2007 through 2025, will conduct the final concert of the present season at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Clinton High School’s Durgin Performing Arts Center.
The concert, titled “Overtures to Finales” will include Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, the American Salute by Morton Gould, the overture to Johann Strauss, Jr.’s opera “Die Fledermaus”, and finish with Tchaikovsky’s triumphant Symphony No. 4.
Dollinger conducted Clinton Symphony Orchestra for eighteen seasons. During his career, he has conducted orchestras across the United States as well as in Europe. He presently serves as music director and conductor of the Muscatine Symphony, the Kamuela Philharmonic in Hawaii, and the Southwest Symphony Orchestra in Chicago.
The concert marks the end of the orchestra’s regular season, and will be followed with an outdoor Pops Concert at the shell in Riverview Park on June 7th, conducted by the current music director and conductor Silas Nathaniel Huff.
Concert tickets are available at the door of the concert, $20 for adults. All students are admitted free of charge to the concerts. In addition, an adult companion of a student can be admitted of half-price.
There is ongoing construction at Clinton High School, and parking and entrance to the Durgin Performance Center is on the back (south) side of the campus.
Complete information and program notes for the pieces to be played are available on the Symphony’s website at www.clintonsymphony.org.