Join Maestro James Villani and the Manassas Symphony on a Sunday afternoon for the opening concert of the 2024-25 season and welcome the colorful and captivating playing of the Marcolivia Duo. The award-winning violin and viola duo of Olivia Hajioff and Marc Ramirez have had celebrated performances at distinguished venues worldwide. They are described as “compelling” and “intensely beautiful” by The Washington Post.

The Marcolivia Duo is playing the evocative Romantic Fantasy for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra by Australian composer Arthur Benjamin and Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Violins in A minor, op. 3 no. 8. The MSO rounds out the program with Piotr Tchaikovsky’s Marche Slav and Antonín Dvořák’s masterwork Symphony No. 9 in E minor, “From the New World.”

Violinist Leonid Sushansky, acclaimed by The Washington Post for his "Gorgeous tone [and] passionate intensity, " and called "Astonishing" by The New York Times, joins Maestro Villani and the MSO for Felix Mendelssohn’s highly-regarded and expressive Violin Concerto in E minor.

At the tender age of 15, Sushansky debuted with the New York Philharmonic at the invitation of world famous conductor Zubin Mehta, and since then has performed for worldwide audiences. He is the Artistic Director of the National Chamber Ensemble and continues his distinguished career as a performer and teacher. The MSO concludes the concert with Ottorino Respighi’s gorgeous and picturesque tone poem, Pines of Rome.