The CSO’s own Principal Trumpet Robert Sullivan takes center stage for a rare jewel, the Trumpet Concerto by award-winning composer William Perry—joyful music that will allow his pureness of tone and abundant talents to shine. The young Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare opens with Canadian composer John Estacio’s Borealis, which captures the wonder, majesty and energy of the Northern Lights, and closes with Sibelius’ popular Second Symphony, a warm and deeply nationalistic work filled with soaring melodies, radiant orchestration and an enormous crescendo that brings the concerts to a grandiose finale.