The 30-member SIUC Chamber Orchestra will present a concert with four soloists at Shryock tonight.

The SIUC Chamber Orchestra is made up of community and faculty members, as well as undergraduate and graduate students. The orchestra will be directed by Edward Benyas, who is also one of the featured soloists on the oboe in a piece by Mozart.

Chamber orchestras are smaller than symphony orchestras, which usually have about 60 members and are noted for usually performing pieces from times when fewer instruments were used in musical compositions, such as the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Benyas said the SIUC Chamber Orchestra debuted last year with pieces from Bach, Mozart and Haydn.

This is our second concert in recent times, Benyas said. We organized the concerts so we could do the works by classical composers for others.

Benyas said this year’s concert features works by different composers than the concert performed last year, as well as a different piece from Haydn.

Tonight works are Divertimento No.11 in D Major, K.251, by Mozart and Symphony No.100 in G Major Military’, by Haydn.

After intermission, Beethoven’s Concerto in C Major for Piano, Violin and Cello, Op. 56, will be performed. Known for putting demands on the soloists, it will be accompanied by the orchestra.

The featured soloists are Michael Barta, on violin, Wilfred Delphin, on piano, and Daniel Mellado on cello. All of the soloists are professors at SIUC in the School of Music.

The SIUC Chamber Orchestra performs tonight at 8 p.m. in Shryock Auditorium. General admission is $3, $2 for students with an I.D.

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