During the orchestra's season opening concert, Karel Mark Chichon will conduct the dazzling and colourful "Scheherazade" by Rimsky-Korsakov, one of the most popular works written for orchestra, whereas the brilliant violinist Sergei Krylov will join Chichon for a performance of Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.

October 21 at the Great Guild Hall at 7 p.m., LNSO presents this season's only concert "Šimkus and Chichon". The very successful artistic partnership between Vestards Šimkus and Karel Mark Chichon in LNSO concerts during the past seasons has by now become legendary, a guarantee of emotional and breathtaking artistic experience.

October 28, the orchestra invites everyone to a concert of Latvian music, titled Latvian Composers Celebrate Anniversaries. 2011 marks the significant anniversaries of four Latvian composers: Artūrs Grīnups and Romualds Jermaks are 80 and Pauls Dambis and Romualds Kalsons are 75 this year. LNSO and conductor Andris Vecumnieks offer their congratulations to the four classics of Latvian music and invite music lovers to join them at a concert tribute to look back at some of the highlights of the composers' musical careers.