Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra will team up with the University of Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra for a special presentation of Gustav Mahler’s magnificent “Symphony No. 1 in D major.”

Also on the program is Carl Maria von Weber’s “Concerto for Bassoon” featuring Davis Hampton on bass clarinet. A University of Puget Sound music education major, Hampton performs with the Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra and serves as a conducting assistant for the concert band. He is one of the recipients of the 2016–17 Paul Bellamy Music Scholarship and winner of the Concerto/Aria Competition.

Mahler had an exceptionally interesting yet tumultuous life. His music evokes an expansive emotional gamut, ranging from the most despairing to the frivolous. Conducting for the world’s greatest orchestras and opera houses, Mahler left behind some of the most significant work in the symphonic repertory. He continuously pushed at the boundaries of form, scope, orchestration, and performance. In his First Symphony we get a glimpse of this extraordinary human and the music born from his fertile imagination.

Both of the BSO’s winter concerts will be performed off-site. The ticketed performance at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 4 will be held at Bainbridge High School, and the free concert at 4 p.m. on Sunday, March 5 will be at Schneebeck Concert Hall, University of Puget Sound.

Saturday tickets, $21 for adults, and $18 for seniors, students, military, and teachers, may be purchased online at www.bainbridgeperformingarts.org, by phone at 206-842-8569 or in person at Bainbridge Performing Arts (200 Madison Ave. North).